US EditionCooper Union Settles Antisemitism Lawsuit with Reforms and Compensation
Cooper Union will pay compensation and introduce new policies including a Title VI coordinator and mask ban at protests to address antisemitic harassment claims.
- On Thursday, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art settled a Title VI lawsuit, agreeing to create a Title VI coordinator, expand training, ban masks at protests, and pay compensation to 10 Jewish students.
- During the Oct. 25, 2023 rally, protesters stormed past security, banged on doors, and chanted 'Free Palestine,' prompting Jewish students to barricade themselves inside for 20 minutes.
- A federal judge in Manhattan refused to dismiss the lawsuit last February, and the Department of Education under President Joe Biden opened a Title VI probe requiring Cooper Union to apply Biden-era guidance including IHRA.
- The settlement positions Cooper Union among schools required to strengthen protections, committing to oversight and training amid a national wave of lawsuits after Oct. 7, 2023.
- Cooper Union's commitment to apply IHRA guidance positions the school within broader debates as its new Title VI coordinator will implement Biden administration guidance amid a national wave of lawsuits since Oct. 7, 2023.
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WINCooper Union settles Title VI antisemitism case with 10 Jewish students who were barricaded in library after Oct. 7
The Cooper Union has settled a Title VI case of antisemitic discrimination dating back to a highly publicized incident in which Jewish students were trapped in a school library by protesters after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. The Manhattan engineering college has agreed to pay an unspecified sum to 10 affected Jewish students, create a Title VI coordinator position who will monitor cases “including discrimination or harassment based on antisemitis…
New York’s Cooper Union Settles Campus Antisemitism Case, Pledges Reforms
Pro-Hamas activists gather in Washington Square Park for a rally following a protest march held in response to an NYPD sweep of an anti-Israel encampment at New York University in Manhattan, May 3, 2024. Photo: Matthew Rodier/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will take steps to reduce antisemitism and other harassment on campus, to settle a lawsuit claiming it failed to help Jewish students who were…
Cooper Union Reaches Settlement in Antisemitism Lawsuit, Commits to Sweeping Campus Reforms
By: Fern Sidman In the autumn of 2023, as universities across the United States convulsed with political fervor following Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7th of that year, few episodes were as visually arresting—or legally consequential—as the moment Jewish students at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art barricaded themselves inside a library at the Manhattan school while pro-Hamas, pro-terror demonstrators surged outs…
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