City Council to evaluate CUNY’s efforts to combat campus antisemitism

November 21, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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CITY HALL — THE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL’S Committee on Higher Education on Monday, Nov. 25 at 10 a.m. will examine the City University of New York’s response to the Lippman Report on antisemitism and discrimination policies across the university system. The report, released in September by Judge Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the state Court of Appeals, found that CUNY’s current policies and procedures for preventing antisemitism and discrimination “need to be significantly overhauled and updated in order to handle the levels of antisemitism and discrimination that exist on CUNY’s campuses today.” In a statement issued in late September, CUNY said it welcomed the review, and would work to implement 13 of its recommendations “to bolster CUNY’s existing and ongoing anti-discrimination efforts.”

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