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The U.S. Education Department has added three colleges to its growing list of institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on shared ancestry.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa and Western University of Health Sciences joined the list this week, and Eastern Washington University was added last week by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
The agency has seen an influx of complaints alleging antisemitism or Islamophobia since the war between Israel and Hamas began in early October, and it started publicly listing institutions under investigation in mid-November.
The department’s list doesn’t say what specific allegations its Office for Civil Rights is looking into. But the investigations focus on possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which requires federally funded institutions to protect students from discrimination based on race, color or national origin. The Education Department has said this includes Jews, Muslims and members of other ethnic or religious groups with “shared ancestry.”
