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The U.S. Education Department on Tuesday added the University of Virginia and San Diego State University to the growing list of institutions facing federal investigations for alleged discrimination involving shared ancestry.
The department’s list of colleges, universities and K-12 school districts under investigation doesn’t specify what the investigation is about beyond a possible shared-ancestry violation of the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which requires federally funded institutions to protect students from discrimination based on race, color or national origin.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has seen an influx in complaints alleging antisemitism or Islamophobia on college campuses since the Israel-Hamas war began in early October.
Since then, the department has opened 41 investigations into complaints about a K-12 district or a college—27 of which involve an institution of higher education. The agency began publicly listing institutions under investigation in mid-November.
The most recent institutions added before Virginia and San Diego State were George Mason University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
