Trump administration finds Columbia University violated civil rights law

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The Trump administration said Columbia University violated a civil rights law because it acted with “deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students from October 7, 2023, through the present.”

The Health and Human Services Department announced the violation on Thursday night and said “Columbia continually failed to protect Jewish students” because it didn’t establish effective reporting mechanisms for antisemitism until the summer of 2024, among several other reasons.

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