Trump Admin Probes California State University System Over Anti-Semitism, Racial Bias Claims

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into all 22 campuses of the California State University (CSU) system over allegations of anti-Semitism and racial discrimination. Chancellor Mildred Garcia said in a Sept. 26 letter to the CSU community that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has launched “a systemwide antisemitism complaint” against CSU. Garcia said investigators have already begun contacting faculty and staff to review allegations and speak with them about their experiences on campus. Alongside the EEOC action, Garcia revealed that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has initiated a separate inquiry into CSU. That probe centers on allegations of racial discrimination “due to interactions with the PhD Project,” a nonprofit organization created to diversify business education and the corporate workforce....