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 Today, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) released the following statement after Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced he was stepping down: 

“President Schill will leave behind a legacy of not only failing to deter antisemitism on campus but worsening it. These students not only deserve better, but the law requires it. Northwestern’s next president must take prompt and effective action to protect Jewish students from the scourge of antisemitism.”

Background

The Committee has stood firm in support of Jewish students, and President Schill has failed to heed the Committee’s demands for the university to act: 

• In April, the Committee requested a transcribed interview with President Schill regarding the rampant antisemitism on his campus. In August, the Committee conducted the transcribed interview.
• In June of last year, the Committee threatened to subpoena President Schill for failing to provide a sufficient response to the university’s inaction on antisemitism on its campus.
• In a Committee hearing last year, Mr. Schill declined to say whether physically blocking students from attending class due to their race or religion was an expellable offense. 
• In the same May hearing, Mr. Schill also refused to state whether it’s a good idea for Northwestern to partner with a government that harbors Hamas and Iranian operatives who fund terrorism.

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