Harmeet Dhillon
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Other times I look at something in the press or something that is in a complaint and I open up an investigation and I get the president and their lawyers and sometimes their board members who come to us and they make a presentation and they persuade me that actually the big picture is much less dire.
And sometimes there are just one-off artifacts that occur where an institution really has legitimately in good faith given out the order from the top down to make the necessary changes.
but there's a recalcitrant dean somewhere, or there's a page that got missed in the review and update of the websites.
And, you know, we're not here to, you know, rake people over the coals.
We're here to get the job done.
And so honest mistakes like that, we get them corrected and we move on.
But then you have UCLA and, you know, some UCLA faculty
decided that instead of letting the university negotiate with us, which they wanted to, let's go get an injunction and prevent that.
So right now there's an injunction out there that prevents United States from negotiating on admissions issues with UCLA.
That's crazy.
And we're going to be seeking a higher review of that.
But meanwhile, this is a totally separate issue.
The anti-Semitism in employment that has occurred at UCLA and I believe other UC institutions is
shocking and disappointing.
Anyone can read our complaint.
It's linked to our press release publicly.
And so we've been focusing mainly on the elite institutions, but on a case-by-case basis where we see incidents that are below that tier, we're also looking at those.
There's 6,000 institutions of higher learning events that get federal funding.
So there's no way for us
with the limited resources we have to go after all of them, but we hope to make examples out of some of the worst ones.