Trump Administration Texted College Professors' Personal Phones to Ask If They're Jewish

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8. It's the new EEOC

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04/23/eeoc-sends-texts-to-columbia-and-barnard-employees-asking-them-to-complete-survey-for-title-vii-investigation/

“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” Longley wrote.

Two days later, Longley wrote in an email to faculty obtained by Spectator that Andrea Lucas, acting chair of EEOC, had initiated a commissioner’s charge and Title VII investigation last summer into whether Barnard had discriminated against Jewish employees.

According to the EEOC website, a commissioner’s charge is initiated by an EEOC commissioner, rather than an employee at a company, following reports from an EEOC field office or “a member of the public.”

The website states that the EEOC typically collects the contact information of employees for companies under investigation, and that the commission “has the authority to issue administrative subpoenas and seek judicial enforcement when necessary.” Investigations which derive from a commissioner’s charge have resulted in 8 lawsuits from fiscal year 2015 to 2024, according to the website.

Longley wrote in the Wednesday email that Barnard “prides itself on being an inclusive and respectful workplace for all people, including our Jewish employees, and has been robustly defending the College against this EEOC inquiry.”


Longley added that EEOC was “legally entitled to obtain the contact information of Barnard employees” and that Barnard “complied with this lawful request.”