evt_2025_0006
The U.S. Department of Education stated that OCR and HHS OCR determined Columbia University violated Title VI related to harassment of Jewish students.
According to the Department of Education, OCR and HHS OCR determined on May 22, 2025 that Columbia acted with deliberate indifference toward harassment of Jewish students and violated Title VI. The source states that the agencies notified Columbia's accreditor of the finding.
Public institutional response
The record currently summarizes the public federal finding and accreditor notification; it does not evaluate Columbia's response.
- Response date
- 2025-05-22
- Legal status
- Federal Title VI violation finding stated by Department of Education
- School
- Columbia University
- Date
- 2025-05-22
- Location
- New York, NY
- Category
- Institutional response
- Communities
- Jewish, Israeli
- Verification
- Verified from public source
- Confidence
- High
- Verification rationale
- Verified from public source; 1 public source reviewed (Government release). Confidence reflects source support, not severity.
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
- Record hash
- sha256:f6ff89e7c855e6cd0c5423f3359a2bfbe640b4332f1b19e7f2708719218368b4