IU Under Title VI Investigation by Department of Education

Indiana University is among 60 higher education institutions to receive a letter from the U.S. Department of Education demanding they fulfill their obligation to protect Jewish students on campus, according to a statement from the DOE.

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment

Schools that received letters currently are under investigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which protects U.S. citizens from being excluded from "any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance" on the basis of their race, color or background.

The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education warned the institutions of "potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities.”

Why is Indiana University under investigation?

On the education department's list of pending investigations, a case against Indiana University-Bloomington is listed as being opened on Feb. 5. The type of discrimination is listed as "Title VI - National Origin Discrimination Involving Religion."

The Indiana Daily Student reported last month that the civil rights investigation was opened based on a complaint from a conservative media organization, Campus Reform, and involved statements made during pro-Palestinian protests on IU's Bloomington campus.

What colleges and universities received the Title VI letter from the DOE? Here's the full list:

  1. American University 
  2. Arizona State University 
  3. Boston University 
  4. Brown University 
  5. California State University, Sacramento 
  6. Chapman University 
  7. Columbia University 
  8. Cornell University 
  9. Drexel University 
  10. Eastern Washington University 
  11. Emerson College 
  12. George Mason University 
  13. Harvard University 
  14. Illinois Wesleyan University 
  15. Indiana University, Bloomington 
  16. Johns Hopkins University 
  17. Lafayette College 
  18. Lehigh University 
  19. Middlebury College 
  20. Muhlenberg College 
  21. Northwestern University 
  22. Ohio State University 
  23. Pacific Lutheran University     
  24. Pomona College 
  25. Portland State University 
  26. Princeton University 
  27. Rutgers University 
  28. Rutgers University-Newark
  29. Santa Monica College 
  30. Sarah Lawrence College 
  31. Stanford University 
  32. State University of New York Binghamton 
  33. State University of New York Rockland 
  34. State University of New York, Purchase 
  35. Swarthmore College 
  36. Temple University 
  37. The New School 
  38. Tufts University 
  39. Tulane University 
  40. Union College 
  41. University of California Davis 
  42. University of California San Diego 
  43. University of California Santa Barbara 
  44. University of California, Berkeley
  45. University of Cincinnati 
  46. University of Hawaii at Manoa 
  47. University of Massachusetts Amherst 
  48. University of Michigan 
  49. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 
  50. University of North Carolina 
  51. University of South Florida 
  52. University of Southern California 
  53. University of Tampa 
  54. University of Tennessee 
  55. University of Virginia 
  56. University of Washington-Seattle 
  57. University of Wisconsin, Madison 
  58. Wellesley College 
  59. Whitman College 
  60. Yale University