Overview
- Ten Jewish students settled their federal civil-rights case over being trapped during an Oct. 25, 2023 protest at the campus library.
- Cooper Union will pay undisclosed compensation and create a Title VI coordinator to manage discrimination and harassment complaints.
- The coordinator will apply Education Department OCR guidance, consider the IHRA working definition, and publish policies recognizing Zionism as part of many Jews’ identity.
- Updated protest rules ban masks that conceal identities, require student ID checks at demonstrations, and mandate pre-approval of posters and fliers.
- Judge John Cronan previously refused to dismiss the suit, and the Education Department separately opened a Title VI investigation into the school.