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'You Do Receive Federal Money, Do You Not?': Ryan Mackenzie Grills College President
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5/9/2025
At Wednesday's House Education Committee hearing, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) questioned college presidents about antisemitism on college campuses.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate today's hearing on stopping the spread of anti-Semitism
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on American campuses, because we do see a very real problem that is occurring all across the
00:11
country. Anti-Semitism has been around for a long time, but ever since October 7th, it has
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come out into the light in a much more shocking and offensive fashion, particularly on our
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university campuses. And when it presents itself, we appreciate that some of the university
00:31
presidents are willing to identify those situations and call them out. And when discrimination
00:36
like this goes through a process that you have on your campus and a violation is determined
00:42
that it has actually occurred, appropriate punishment is being meted out. That's important
00:49
that we recognize that as well. But then accountability for us as legislators is making sure that those
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institutions that actually go through that process recognize the discrimination that is
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occurring on their campus, hand out punishment. We want to make sure that that is actually
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the course of events that's playing out. During the course of this testimony today, two of the
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university presidents have been very transparent with the aggregate information that they were
01:20
willing to share about the punishments that were handed out on their university campus.
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One was not. One has evaded that conversation a number of times, saying that she was unable
01:30
to provide that information. Under pressured testimony, twice though, you have acknowledged that punishment
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has occurred. So you have violated your own standard that you would not disclose or discuss any
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punishments that were occurring on your university campus.
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So my question to you, to the president, Dr. Raymond from Haverford College, is will you
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go back to your college campus, collect that aggregate information, we don't need any personal information,
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and share it with this committee about the punishments that have been handed out from your university
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to students or others who were involved in this discriminatory practice on your college campus?
02:08
Representative McKenzie, I appreciate your requesting that, and I can commit to our practices around
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this. We do not share our results of our disciplinary processes on our campus or publicly.
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And that's a problem. So that is a problem. You do receive federal money, do you not? In some way,
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either directly or indirectly through student loans or grants to your university.
02:44
We do, in a wonderful partnership with the federal government.
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Well, that partnership may be in jeopardy, because if you will not provide transparency and
02:54
accountability like your other colleagues here, it calls into question your actions on your campus.
02:59
And so when people are concerned about discrimination that is happening on your college campus,
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which the list is pretty long at this point, it's very concerning the amount of incidents that
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have piled up at your college campus under your tenure, and yet you won't share any information
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about the punishment that has been handed out. When discrimination that you acknowledge has happened
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on your campus, you won't share that anybody has actually been punished for that.
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Representative, the effects of what have happened at Haverford on our Jewish students and community are
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real and deeply troubling to me, and I am in this work, committed to getting it right. We have had many
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policy changes since October 7th in order to do this work better than we were able to do then,
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and I commit to that work on an ongoing basis with deep empathy and care for all of our Jewish
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students, staff and faculty. I appreciate that statement, but it is lacking in transparency and
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accountability about the end results of punishment that are handed out to students and faculty that are on
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your campus that participate in discriminatory actions. That should just be a baseline for
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receiving federal funding. You're willing to acknowledge that discriminatory actions have
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happened on your campus, you're willing to say that we are going to take some kind of action when that
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does occur, you're going to go through a process, but then you won't actually show those of us that are
04:36
responsible for providing federal funding that you have actually done anything at the end of the day.
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So that is a very concerning course of action, and I think it's something that Congress should
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probably look into, saying that there needs to be transparency, there needs to be accountability,
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and those institutions that don't want to provide that and want to be evasive in remarks before
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Congress, want to avoid transparency and accountability in their actually publishing of the results of,
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in aggregate numbers, the fact that they have taken action against discriminatory behavior,
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I think that that probably warrants a further investigation. The Department of Education
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should be looking into that, and ultimately they should be withholding funds from somebody who
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does not want to provide transparent and accurate information about how they are handling discrimination
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on their college campus. Thank you NIU. The gentleman's time has expired. I thank the gentleman.
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I recognize the gentleman from Washington, Mr. Baumgartner.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dr. Raymond, how many Americans were killed on
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