Overview

• The board of Sciences Po Strasbourg decided on April 8, 2025, to maintain its academic partnership with the Lauder School of Government at the University Reichman in Israel.
• This decision goes against the March 2025 recommendation of a review committee, which advised ending the partnership starting in the 2025 academic year.
• Student activists and some faculty members opposed the decision, staging protests and denouncing the collaboration as politically untenable.
• The French Minister of Higher Education, Philippe Baptiste, warned that ending the partnership for political reasons could lead to legal challenges in administrative courts.
• The board's vote, conducted in secret, resulted in 16 for maintaining the partnership, 14 against, and 3 abstentions, reflecting deep internal divisions on the issue.