Tag: US Department of Education
GOP congressman expresses concerns about anti-Israel ‘scholarship’ at Georgetown University
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) has called on the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies violated Title VI of the 1965 Higher Education Act for allegedly having...
In resolution with federal education department, UNC commits to anti-bias training
Following an order by the U.S. Department of Education, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced on Monday its expansion of anti-bias training, as well as its commitment to creating a campus...
At US Department of Education, Kenneth Marcus tackles anti-Semitism in all its varied forms
Kenneth L. Marcus was confirmed last summer by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education following a contentious nomination battle by Democrats and left-wing and anti-Israel groups. In...
69 groups: US Education Department must guarantee tax dollars won’t go to BDS
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, 69 organizations asked for assurances that taxpayer dollars will not be used towards supporting the BDS movement.
The letter was prompted by two pro-BDS events recently hosted by...
US Department of Education reopens Rutgers case, considers new definition of anti-Semitism
At the same time that the U.S. Department of Education is reopening a seven-year-old case concerning Rutgers University allowing discrimination against Jewish students, the agency is expected to adopt a new definition of anti-Semitism.
In...