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Education Dept. Is Investigating Six More Colleges Over Campus Discrimination [1]

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Date: 2023-12-13  

The agency regularly looks into Title VI complaints of all types against both smaller public school districts and large research universities, but clashes on college campuses since the outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza have produced a flurry of new investigations since October.

As of this week, 21 of the 29 investigations the department has opened into postsecondary schools this year have come since the initial Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

In a news release about the previous batch of investigations announced in November, the department described its efforts as part of a larger directive to “take aggressive action to address the alarming nationwide rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and other forms of discrimination and harassment on college campuses and in K-12 schools since the Oct. 7 Israel-Hamas conflict.”

As with other recent investigations, it was not immediately clear what incident produced the complaints to the department that spurred it to act. An agency spokesman declined to elaborate on the nature of any of the complaints on Wednesday, citing a policy against discussing pending investigations.

But since Oct. 7, a number of campus incidents and disputes have roiled many of the schools in question.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/us/politics/education-department-campus-discrimination.html

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