evt_2024_0001
Brown University announced a voluntary agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights related to alleged shared-ancestry harassment, including antisemitism.
According to Brown University, OCR announced on July 8, 2024 that the university had voluntarily agreed to clarify and enhance policies and procedures related to discrimination and harassment complaints, including those related to antisemitism. Brown stated that it denied violating Title VI while entering the agreement.
Public institutional response
Brown said it agreed to continue nondiscrimination training, investigator training, policy clarification, and reporting commitments under the OCR resolution agreement.
- Response date
- 2024-07-08
- Legal status
- OCR voluntary resolution agreement announced
- School
- Brown University
- Date
- 2024-07-08
- Location
- Providence, RI
- Category
- OCR complaint
- Communities
- Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian, Arab
- Verification
- Verified from public source
- Confidence
- High
- Verification rationale
- Verified from public source; 1 public source reviewed (University statement). Confidence reflects source support, not severity.
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
- Record hash
- sha256:481a4813f46361a82b37a6065a028b581e68ddcf26ac1ab29fd83766beb6202c