evt_2024_0003
Lafayette College announced that it resolved an OCR review related to a shared-ancestry discrimination complaint.
Lafayette College stated that OCR had sought information related to a complaint about an alleged incident of discrimination on campus. The college announced that it would take steps under a voluntary agreement, including policy revisions and training for employees responsible for investigating complaints based on shared ancestry.
Public institutional response
Lafayette said it would submit policy revisions to OCR, provide training, and continue cooperation under the voluntary agreement.
- Response date
- 2024-06-20
- Legal status
- OCR voluntary resolution agreement announced
- School
- Lafayette College
- Date
- 2024-06-20
- Location
- Easton, PA
- Category
- OCR complaint
- Communities
- Jewish, 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
- sha256:91a2a675096cb40261e78dae2babfbe1a45e50e2dd0054f2e22bd1d0494854c8