Trump administration launches investigation into U of M for antisemitism [View all]

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The University of Minnesota is one of five universities that is under federal investigation for reports of antisemitism.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced it is launching probes into the U of M’s Twin Cities campus, Columbia University in New York, Northwestern University in Illinois, Portland State University in Oregon and the University of California, Berkeley. The agency says the investigations are in response to the “explosion of antisemitism on American campuses following the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023.”

“Too many universities have tolerated widespread antisemitic harassment and the illegal encampments that paralyzed campus life last year, driving Jewish life and religious expression underground. The Biden Administration’s toothless resolution agreements did shamefully little to hold those institutions accountable,” said Craig Trainor, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, in the announcement.

In response, the U of M said it “will fully cooperate with this investigation.”

The U also has a lot of DEI programs, one at the university level and several at the college levels (Associate Deans for DEI).