The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

British campuses have seen more incidents in a month than in all of 2022, but support and understanding are in short supply When I woke in my student house on Saturday 7 October, my stomach turned at the news from Israel. In their moment of terror they knew that here, in the UK, antisemitism would erupt; racism would jeopardise our safety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The survey question that they were responding to is as follows: 'How is the news in Israel and Gaza making you feel?' The survey findings come amid immense levels of campus antisemitism since the Oct. What the students were asked was broad. So, it was not specific to any one aspect of what's happening with the war,” Lehman said.

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MAY 15, 2024

The Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education also heard testimony on free speech and concerns about antisemitism on college campuses. Read more from KUT News. The post Are public universities doing enough to comply with Texas’ DEI ban?

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2024

Trusted institutions of all types – from public health agencies to news organizations – will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility,” Claudine Gay wrote in the New York Times on Wednesday, a day after she announced she was resigning from her position.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

Amid complaints about alleged antisemitic views posted online, USC’s valedictorian will not be permitted to deliver a speech at the university’s commencement ceremony due to concerns about security, the school’s provost announced today. ” Read more from CBS News. .”‘ ” Read more from CBS News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Student protests are helping to set the national news agenda." Riot gear and horses were employed Wednesday to drive out protesters at a pro-Palestine demonstration of more than 500 students at the University of Texas at Austin, leading to at least 34 people being arrested, including two members of news media.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

Claudine Gay’s resignation as president of Harvard University swiftly spread through the news and has been an ongoing conversation, particularly among those within higher education academic communities.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

issued subpoenas to multiple leaders at Harvard University for “failing to produce priority documents” related to the committee’s antisemitism investigation into the Ivy League school. Read more from Fox News. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., 14 to do so.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The new poll, released jointly by the ADL and the Jewish outreach organization Hillel International, found that 73% of Jewish college students and 44% of non-Jewish students experienced or saw antisemitic incidents since the beginning of the 2023-24 school year, ranging from antisemitic vandalism to threats of physical violence.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Ron DeSantis’ office sent out a news release touting an emergency order signed by university system chancellor Ray Rodrigues. The order , which points to an increase in antisemitic instances nationwide, waives credit requirements and application deadlines for transfer students. On Tuesday afternoon, Gov.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

A Rutgers University law student is suing the school, claiming discrimination and retaliation after he spoke out against antisemitism on campus. Read more from CBS News. The post Student accuses Rutgers University of retaliation for speaking out against antisemitism appeared first on University Business.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

A new lawsuit accuses Carnegie Mellon University of discrimination and antisemitism. Read more from CBS News. The post Lawsuit filed against Carnegie Mellon University student alleging antisemitism and discrimination appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The occasional spill of violence and verbal hate crimes has prompted policymakers at the federal and state levels to confront antisemitism on campus. Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. Another student in a campus messaging board advised others to follow Israeli students home and slit their throats, CBS News reports.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

University of Pennsylvania police and the FBI are investigating threatening antisemitic emails sent to university staff, specifically naming Penn Hillel and Lauder College House, President Liz Magill said. Read more from CBS News. Magill said there will be an increased security presence throughout Penn’s campus.

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University Business

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, three university leaders were the subject of scorn last week at a Congressional hearing over how they’re handling antisemitism. It added six more this week, probing incidents of antisemitism, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab discrimination. A survey conducted by U.S. Are colleges’ good deeds going unnoticed?

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University Business

JANUARY 2, 2024

On the first day of the spring semester, Claudine Gay is stepping down as president of Harvard University following sustained backlash sparked by her Congressional hearing on student safety and antisemitism. The most recent reports cite about 40 instances of possible plagiarism, The New York Times reports. Glad she's gone.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Influential donors to Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania say they will cut their ties to the schools in protest of college administrators’ response to alleged anti-Israel speech and antisemitism on campuses in the wake of Hamas’ terror attacks. Read more from CBS News.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 4, 2023

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has resolved its investigation into how the University of Vermont responded to complaints from students who said they faced antisemitic harassment at the institution. Lhamon said in a news release. We will be watching to be sure these students are safe.

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JULY 25, 2023

The University of Michigan’s president has condemned antisemitic vandalism at two off-campus fraternity houses. Read more from Fox News. The post University of Michigan’s president condemns antisemitic vandalism at 2 off-campus fraternity houses appeared first on University Business.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Amid growing rates of antisemitism nationwide, Brandeis University (Mass.) ” The New York Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of pro-Palestinian supporters after New York Gov. “The “Universities should be places where people of diverse political views can peacefully exchange their views and ideas.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ramped up investigations in the last year as more individuals and organizations have filed complaints about disability, sex or pregnancy discrimination; campus antisemitism; and programs or scholarships available to only one gender or minority group, among other allegations.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

Claudine Gay – Harvard University Harvard University President Claudine Gay was pressured to step down due to mounting allegations of plagiarism and public blowback from a miscalculated Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. She was the shortest-serving president in Harvard’s history, last six months. Read more here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

He believes students will be newly inspired to combat an “epidemic in hatred”—a rise in racist and antisemitic incidents on college campuses and elsewhere across the country. On college campuses, antisemitic incidents rose 41 percent. percent nationwide between 2020 and 2021. The majority of victims, 65.4

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

” More specifically, I propose three main areas of engagement for higher education: debunking racist and antisemitic myths, bolstering media literacy, and developing a greater culture of belonging. Ward puts it , “antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Last month, anonymous Jewish George Washington University students and a pro-Israel group accused the university of antisemitism in a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Additionally, in one bonus spot, Harvard University earned the “Lifetime Censorship Award” for targeting The New York Post after the publication helped break the news on the former president’s plagiarism in her dissertation. This isn’t the first time the First Amendment watchdog group targeted the Ivy League.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The tenured professor who was fired after speaking out against Linfield University’s Board of Trustees and president about alleged sexual misconduct and antisemitism has won a court settlement of more than $1 million.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” He said conservative voices were being pushed out of mainstream student news and that the main student newspaper, The Technique , wasn’t serving the student population as well as it could. “Political views lend to strong opinions about what is or what should be represented in news media,” she said.

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University Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

.” Stepping down Liz Magill – University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned following her Congressional hearing on her institution’s handling of antisemitism on campus. Read more here. Christine McPhail – Saint Augustine’s University (N.C.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

News & World Report’s longstanding college rankings was called into question as institutions vie to personalize their brand to match students’ needs. Reflecting some of the most significant news developments in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.

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University Business

OCTOBER 26, 2023

More from UB: Trouble at the top: Infighting among school board members invites outside criticism Widespread Palestinian student protests continue Students at more than 100 colleges and universities from coast to coast planned walkouts in support of the Palestinian people on Wednesday afternoon, NBC News reports. Marco Rubio (Fla.)

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Rodmon Cedric King, Connecticut College’s former Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion (DIEI), insisted President Katherine Bergeron avoid hosting a fundraising event at a Florida venue King knew had a reputation for racism and antisemitism. His advice fell on deaf ears, and as quickly as he was ignored, he resigned. “I

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Goucher DEI

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Students then spread news of the project by word-of-mouth. Josh Anderson & Rhyan Orenstein: PSA on antisemitism (click on the audio button in the corner of the video to hear sound). Alyssa Henderson: PSA on antisemitism. The first step was to identify Bersabé Shuman-Fletcher as the photographer. PSAs Created by Students.

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

The incoming president will look to turn things around following the tumultuous exit of its former president, who caused an uproar for proposing a fundraiser at a venue with antisemitic and racist cultural ties. Briggs is credited with expanding Berry’s academic offerings and modernizing its campus facilities.

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SRHE

APRIL 17, 2024

That was the good news. A new government was entitled to try a new policy for HE, as it did. Not repeal, of course, but neither was it, as we might have hoped, adaptation of the new policy to make it work better. It didn’t work, so what happened next?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

“MAGA Republicans and the far-right news media are peddling empty catchphrases like ‘cancel culture’ and ‘woke’ to fuel mass hysteria around an alleged conspiracy by institutions to degrade conservative free speech.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” Yet, during a news conference the day of Meixner’s death, the UAPD police chief said, “Moving forward, if you see something, say something,” the report says. At one point, the report says, “OGC advised HAS leadership that sharing information about the risks that Dervish posed might violate privacy laws.”

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