Tag: College Campus
University of Florida dean suspends anti-Israel protesters for years
Chris Summerlin, dean of students at the University of Florida in Gainesville, chose not to offer slap-on-the-wrist penalties to pro-Hamas protesters arrested on campus on April 29.
Instead, Summerlin applied multiple-year suspensions of some students, the most...
Bill protecting students, including from Jew-hatred, passes Ohio house
A bill protecting students on campus, including from Jew-hatred, passed the Ohio State of Representatives on Wednesday.
The state legislature’s Jewish Caucus helped write the Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students (CAMPUS) Act,...
Yes, Arab funding can have a nefarious impact on campus
As I wrote last week and in my report, Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients, and Impact, it is challenging to link Arab funding to universities with the toxic atmosphere on campus for Jews. It is...
ADL updates antisemitism levels at 85 campuses: 12 better, three worse
Updated analysis from the Anti-Defamation League shows progress at American academic institutions that are strengthening their approach to countering antisemitism on campus. Still, it assesses that three top universities have fallen further in their...
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem recently found a 2,000-year-old clay token that was used in...
Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. But those that cloak a political ideology in the sort of language and symbolism in sync with the cultural fashions of the moment and...
Take ‘immediate action’ against Jew-hatred, 27 GOP senators demand of US ed secretary, attorney...
A group of 27 U.S. senators wrote to Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, and Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, on Tuesday demanding that the officials “take action to restore order and protect...
Dor Kapah’s harrowing escape from Hamas massacre
Dor Kapah, 30, stood before a group of students at the University of Florida, recounting a harrowing tale that seemed straight out of a war movie. But it wasn’t fiction; it was a gripping...
Jewish high-schoolers refrained from applying to some colleges, say parents
Hillel International released the results of a new survey, taken between March 13 and March 18, of 427 Jewish parents and the status of their children applying to U.S. colleges.
It showed that 64% of Jewish parents...
New program aims for black-Jewish cooperation in battling antisemitism
The Academic Engagement Network (AEN) will provide grants to two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for an initiative to nurture greater black-Jewish community alliances.
“While there are other excellent programs that seek to repair...
Ed Department starts Title VI investigations into five more colleges
Universities in Illinois, Vermont, California, Pennsylvania and New York are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for potential violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On Tuesday, the OCR named...