Arizona State College is one in all dozens of universities being investigated by the Trump Administration for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
The Division of Training’s Workplace for Civil Rights (OCR) despatched letters to the establishments, warning them of potential enforcement if they don’t defend Jewish college students on campus, together with uninterrupted entry to campus services and academic alternatives.
The investigation is a response to protests that occurred on faculty campuses final yr in assist of Palestine, after the October seventh Hamas-led assaults on Israel and pursuant to President Trump’s Govt Order, Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.
The colleges that acquired letters are below investigation for antisemitic harassment and discrimination in line with the Division.
If discovered culpable, the establishments danger dropping federal funding as a consequence like what occurred to Columbia College final week.
A multi-agency task force made up of the Division of Justice, Division of Well being and Human Providers, Division of Training, and the U.S. Common Providers Administration pulled about $400 million in federal grants and contracts because of, “the college’s continued inaction within the face of persistent harassment of Jewish college students” in line with a [press release]((https://www.ed.gov/about/information/press-release/us-department-of-education-probes-cases-of-antisemitism-five-universities) which matches on to state, “These cancellations signify the primary spherical of motion and extra cancellations are anticipated to observe.”
The Trump Administration reinstated EO 13899 that was initially issued in December 2019, because of the 2023 assault– pursuant to this coverage, the Division of Training launched “directed investigations” into five universities the place alleged “widespread antisemitic harassment” had been reported together with Columbia College, Northwestern College, Portland State College, the College of California, Berkeley and the College of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
ASU and the opposite 54 universities, “are below investigation or monitoring in response to complaints filed with OCR.”
Different universities that had comparable protests just like the College of Arizona, weren’t on the checklist.
