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Friday, July 12, 2024

Coming Soon to UCLA (presumably)

The US Dept. of Education received complaints about many universities and colleges regarding events after last October 7th. UCLA was among them. Now the department has started to work through its caseload and is issuing decisions:

From Inside Higher Ed: The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has settled with Brown University over the institution’s handling of about 75 antisemitic or Islamophobic incidents reported between October 2023 and March 2024, the office announced Monday. OCR criticized Brown for failing to complete investigations and, in some cases, abandoning complaints when the complainant did not respond to the university’s emails...

It’s the latest settlement OCR has reached with a university over shared ancestry violations of Title VI since the Israel-Hamas war’s onset. In agreements with City University of New York, the University of Michigan and Lafayette College, the office reported similar shortcomings, critiquing the institutions for subpar or inconsistent responses to complaints...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/07/09/brown-reaches-settlement-title-vi-complaints.

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