Overview

• CSU said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a complaint covering all 23 campuses and begun contacting faculty and staff to discuss experiences on campus.
• Cal State LA reported an EEOC subpoena seeking employee phone numbers and email addresses, and told workers they may be contacted by investigators.
• The system said it will cooperate with the inquiry and condemned antisemitism, while the EEOC noted that charges filed with the agency are confidential.
• Separately, the Education Department is investigating CSU’s past engagement with The PhD Project, reflecting multiple federal lines of scrutiny of the system.
• The move follows broader federal actions that include UC Berkeley disclosing information on 160 people, settlements with Columbia and Brown, threats to withhold research funds, and court orders restoring NIH and NSF grants to UCLA after pulled funding.