In an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Drexel has promised to reassess handling of previous complaints and provide more training for faculty, staff and students, among other things.
But the department found no evidence of antisemitism or problems with the university’s handling of the case that sparked the probe.has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to improve its handling of antisemitism complaints, though the office found no evidence of antisemitism in the case that sparked the probe or problems with the university’s handling of that one case.
The university told the Office of Civil Rights it found no evidence of a hate crime, according to the report, though one of the four students who had been living in the suite was Jewish and had ties to Israel. While it was initially reported that the door had Jewish decorations on it, they were actually Halloween-related, the university told the department.
But the civil rights office also reviewed 35 other alleged harassment incidents on the basis of shared Jewish ancestry reported to Drexel from October 2022 through January 2024 and cited concerns with Drexel’s handling of some of them. The university ruled that the remarks “did not meet the threshold for a policy violation because only one individual was presented as a potential complainant and the content reported did not relate to any particular individual.
“And yet, in response to almost all of the incidents reported to it, the university’s actions were limited to addressing each incident on an individual basis, instead of responding to the accumulation of evidence of a hostile environment that necessitated more effective responsive action,” the department said.
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