Rutgers University will provide campus-wide anti-harassment training as part of a settlement with the Department of Education following an investigation into allegations of antisemitism and discrimination. The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights found that Rutgers had received over 400 complaints of discrimination between July 2023 and June 2024, with 293 originating from Jewish and Israeli students and 147 from Palestinian, Arab, South Asian, and Muslim students. The settlement comes amidst a surge in complaints from Jewish students and faculty nationwide following the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023.
“It’s a good thing that the university is acknowledging that since Oct. 7 it’s been a tremendously difficult experience for Jews on campus” Rutgers University said it would implement campuswide anti-harassment training to settle a Department of Education investigation into student complaints of antisemitism and discrimination.
Announcing the settlement Thursday, the department said it had “identified compliance concerns” with Rutgers’ handling of the complaints, which included a swastika drawn on a student’s door, a social media post encouraging violence against an Israeli student, and eggs thrown at the Jewish studies building and members of AEPi, a historically Jewish fraternity.
Jonathan Holloway, president of Rutgers, was among several university leaders called to testify before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last year as protests and debates over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict roiled college campuses. Speaking ahead of his testimony, Jewish members of Rutgers’ faculty said the environment on campus had become “chaotic and intimidating.”
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