# Columbia University

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-12**: Columbia declines comment — The university declines to comment on pending litigation.
- **2026-08-10**: Palestinian plaintiffs file lawsuit — Current and former Palestinian students and employees file a civil rights suit in New York County Supreme Court.
- **2026-02**: Jewish student lawsuit settled — Columbia settles a lawsuit filed by Jewish students who alleged inadequate response to antisemitism.
- **2025-08**: Columbia agrees to Trump administration policies — Columbia adopts wide-ranging policies to end civil rights investigations into antisemitism and restore federal research funding.
- **2024-08**: Columbia creates Office of Institutional Equity — The university establishes OIE, which later becomes the focus of the Palestinian plaintiffs' allegations.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Columbia's OIE Under Fire: 2 Bias Lawsuits in 6 Months Test Campus Tech
2026-08-14 10:04:28 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Higher-ed technology leaders should track how Columbia's Office of Institutional Equity became the center of a civil rights complaint. The lawsuit alleges OIE investigated protected speech and used NDAs to gate evidence, exposing compliance flaws in campus bias-response systems.
Full story: https://getedtechbrief.com/story/columbia-oie-bias-lawsuits-campus-tech

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