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Advocacy Groups: Federally-Funded Mideast Studies Centers Being Misused for Anti-Israel ‘Indoctrination’

Fourteen prominent Jewish and advocacy groups urged a key Senate committee to reform the Higher Education Act (HEA), which they claim is being “misused to promote biased, one-sided, and anti-Israel programming in our nation’s Middle East studies centers.”

By |2023-12-14T14:02:16-05:00January 30, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments

In Defense of Kenneth Marcus

Kenneth L. Marcus has been nominated to direct the Office of Civil rights in the United States Department of Education, based on his extensive experience as a civil rights attorney and a legal scholar. Marcus has held an endowed chair in Equality and Justice in America at Baruch College, served as staff director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and as Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights under President George W. Bush.

By |2023-12-14T14:02:15-05:00January 29, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments

Robbins: Dems’ vote against Marcus worrisome

At last month’s Senate hearing on the nomination of civil rights lawyer Ken Marcus to be the Education Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) praised Marcus for his advocacy on behalf of a Virginia Tech student threatened by a white supremacist working for the university.

By |2023-12-14T14:02:15-05:00January 26, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments

JEWISH, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND EDUCATIONAL GROUPS URGE HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM – Letter

We write on behalf of fourteen Jewish, educational, and civil rights organizations in support of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce-passed version of Title VI of H.R. 4508, the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, which seeks to reauthorize the Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA).

By |2023-06-09T21:35:45-04:00January 25, 2018|Blog|0 Comments

Jewish, Civil Rights, and Educational Groups Urge Higher Education Reform

Today, fourteen Jewish, educational, and civil rights organizations urged the U.S. Senate to reform the Higher Education Act to prevent misuse of federal funds by publicly supported, university-based Middle East studies programs.

By |2024-02-01T11:56:39-05:00January 25, 2018|Press Releases, Press Room|0 Comments

Senate Committee Advances Nomination of Kenneth Marcus to Top Civil Rights Post in Education Department

A key Senate committee advanced the nomination of Kenneth Marcus to a top civil rights post in the Department of Education on Thursday, clearing him for a final confirmation round.

By |2023-12-14T14:02:15-05:00January 19, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments

Education Department nominee Ken Marcus: a case study of the new anti-Semitism

When I was a child, having been born in the 1950s under the shadow of the Holocaust, I had naively thought anti-Semitism was mostly a thing of the past that vanished in the gas chambers and ovens of Auschwitz. Yet within the past few decades, I have witnessed anti-Semitism blossom into a socially acceptable hatred that has managed to make its way into the corridors of polite society in a fashion that is as overt, obvious and unconcealed as it is alarming.

By |2023-12-14T14:02:15-05:00January 16, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments

Dozens of Advocacy Groups Endorse Jewish Nominee for Top Education Department Civil Rights Post

Dozens of advocacy groups on Monday called for the confirmation of Kenneth Marcus — a leading figure in efforts to combat campus antisemitism — to a prominent civil rights post at the US Department of Education.

By |2023-12-14T14:02:15-05:00January 16, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments

Impeccable civil rights credentials: Confirm Kenneth L. Marcus

Confirmation battles that pit one party’s nominee for federal office against senators from the opposition party long have been spectator sport in Washington. But when extremists from the nominee’s own party attack, well now, there’s a “man bites dog” story.

By |2023-12-14T14:02:15-05:00January 10, 2018|Media Coverage, Press Room|0 Comments
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