Richard Painter, a professor at the U, is urging the regents to approve the resolution. In 2023, Painter and former regent Michael Hsu filed a complaint with the federal government over statements critical of Israel that were posted to a College of Liberal Arts departmental website.

Pacific Lutheran University is one of 60 higher-education institutions in the nation under investigation for alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it had canceled grants and contracts worth about $400 million to Columbia University because of what it described as antisemitic harassment on and near the school's New York City campus.

Columbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism.

The federal government has terminated $400 million in funds to the Ivy League university although investigations into alleged antisemitic harassment are continuing. The Trump administration’s sudden and fairly unprecedented termination of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to Columbia University raises worries among the nation’s K-12 schools that something similar could happen to their funding,

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