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More than half of Jewish students at American colleges reported personally experiencing or witnessing anti-Semitism within the past six months, according to survey findings released Monday.
The findings should be a wake-up call to college administrators that Jewish students face real problems of bias, said Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
The report, based on the National Demographic Survey of American Jewish Students, was published jointly by Trinity College in Connecticut and the Brandeis Center. The researchers were Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, professors of public policy and law at Trinity.
The report defines anti-Semitism as prejudice or discrimination against Jewish people, and says that can involve bigotry, bullying, defamation, stereotype or hate crimes. Whether a specific incident or event qualifies as anti-Semitic may be open to interpretation, but what matters is that the survey measures students’ perceptions, Kosmin said.
Of the 1,157 respondents at 4-year colleges, 54 percent said they’d been subjected to anti-Semitism since the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year. Among different demographics, the rate of experiencing anti-Semitism varied from 44 percent to 73 percent.
Aside from the high rate of students reporting discrimination, the findings also were surprising because it wasn’t the usual suspects who were reporting the discrimination, Kosmin said.
For example, 59 percent of women reported experiencing anti-Semitism, compared with 51 percent of men, and Conservative and Reform Jews reported higher rates of discrimination that Orthodox Jews. That’s surprising, the report says, since Orthodox men traditionally were the main targets of anti-Semitism, partially because they’re easily identifiable.
High rates of anti-Semitism also were reported at institutions regardless of location or type of institution, although rates tended to be higher at public colleges than private ones. A common excuse to ignore the issue has been that anti-Semitism was only a problem on few individual campuses, Marcus said. These data show it’s a much more pervasive problem.
insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/24/bias-reported-survey-jewish-college-students
Full report is here
brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/trinity-Anti-Semitism.pdf
The findings should be a wake-up call to college administrators that Jewish students face real problems of bias, said Kenneth Marcus, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
The report, based on the National Demographic Survey of American Jewish Students, was published jointly by Trinity College in Connecticut and the Brandeis Center. The researchers were Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, professors of public policy and law at Trinity.
The report defines anti-Semitism as prejudice or discrimination against Jewish people, and says that can involve bigotry, bullying, defamation, stereotype or hate crimes. Whether a specific incident or event qualifies as anti-Semitic may be open to interpretation, but what matters is that the survey measures students’ perceptions, Kosmin said.
Of the 1,157 respondents at 4-year colleges, 54 percent said they’d been subjected to anti-Semitism since the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year. Among different demographics, the rate of experiencing anti-Semitism varied from 44 percent to 73 percent.
Aside from the high rate of students reporting discrimination, the findings also were surprising because it wasn’t the usual suspects who were reporting the discrimination, Kosmin said.
For example, 59 percent of women reported experiencing anti-Semitism, compared with 51 percent of men, and Conservative and Reform Jews reported higher rates of discrimination that Orthodox Jews. That’s surprising, the report says, since Orthodox men traditionally were the main targets of anti-Semitism, partially because they’re easily identifiable.
High rates of anti-Semitism also were reported at institutions regardless of location or type of institution, although rates tended to be higher at public colleges than private ones. A common excuse to ignore the issue has been that anti-Semitism was only a problem on few individual campuses, Marcus said. These data show it’s a much more pervasive problem.
insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/24/bias-reported-survey-jewish-college-students
Full report is here
brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/trinity-Anti-Semitism.pdf
