The University of California, Berkeley, said on Friday that it has provided the names of students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemitism to the federal government, complying with the Trump administration’s investigation of universities that it has accused of failing to protect Jewish students.
The university said in a statement that it notified about 160 people on Sept. 4 that they were named in documents provided to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The Daily Californian, a student-run newspaper, first reported the disclosure on Wednesday.
U.C. Berkeley said it had been directed by the University of California system’s Office of the General Counsel to comply with the federal government’s demand for documents related to how the university handles complaints about antisemitism. “Numerous documents” were provided to the Education Department over recent months, U.C. Berkeley said.
Those notified on Sept. 4 included people who were accused of or affected by antisemitic incidents, as well as the individuals who had filed the antisemitism complaints, according to the university.
President Trump has put extraordinary pressure on American universities this year, threatening to cut off federal funding and, in some cases, their ability to enroll foreign students. The government has ordered a freeze on billions of dollars in research funding.
The Trump administration’s main targets have been elite universities, which Mr. Trump and his allies have said are bastions of ideological indoctrination and antisemitism. U.C. Berkeley is among the 10 universities that a Trump administration task force on antisemitism has identified for particular attention.
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