"In June, in an escalation of the Trump administration's pressure on Harvard University to bow to its demands, a federal Office for Civil Rights announced that the institution was violating federal law. The office released a nearly 60-page report accusing Harvard of "deliberate indifference" to ongoing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students, which is illegal under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
"It was an office of the same name within the Health and Human Services Department that's been playing a more public role as part of Trump's crackdown on higher ed. Officials who served in previous administrations said agencies used to generally defer to the Education Department when it came to civil rights issues in higher ed."
"HHS OCR said it began its Harvard investigation in February by looking into the university's medical school, after alleged antisemitism during the May 2024 graduation ceremony. But, in April, it widened its probe to "include Harvard University as a whole and to extend the timeframe of review to include events and information from October 7, 2023, through the present." (The HHS OCR has jurisdiction over institutions that accept HHS funding, including National Institutes of Health research grants and Medicaid dollars.)"
HHS's Office for Civil Rights released a nearly 60-page report in June finding that Harvard violated federal law by showing 'deliberate indifference' to discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students, creating a hostile environment illegal under Title VI. The HHS OCR began a Harvard investigation in February focused on the medical school after alleged antisemitism at the May 2024 graduation. In April the probe widened to include Harvard University as a whole and extended the review to events from October 7, 2023, through the present. HHS OCR has jurisdiction over institutions that accept HHS funding, including NIH research grants and Medicaid. The released findings do not address a separate ongoing Title VI investigation into suspected race-based discrimination.
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