College presidents were back on the hot seat as House Republicans expanded their investigations into campus antisemitism with three more universities: DePaul, Haverford and California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.
The House Education and the Workforce Committee dressed down the three college presidents at the Wednesday hearing, quizzing them over antisemitic incidents on their campuses and demanding to know why they haven’t done more to protect Jewish students.
The three presidents were selected because “all of your schools have been hotbeds of antisemitism at some point,” said committee Chairman Tim Walberg, Michigan Republican.
Taking the brunt of the criticism was Haverford President Wendy Raymond, who was warned that her college could lose federal funding for failing to provide aggregate data on the number of disciplinary actions taken against students, faculty and others for discriminatory behavior on campus.
“We do not share our results of our disciplinary processes on our campus or publicly,” Ms. Raymond told the committee.
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Pennsylvania Republican, replied: “That’s a problem,” pointing out that the other two college presidents provided their disciplinary data upon request.
“The Department of Education should be looking into that, and ultimately they should be withholding funds from somebody who does not want to provide transparent and accurate information about how they are handling discrimination on their college campus,” Mr. Mackenzie said.
The hearing was the eighth on campus antisemitism by the committee following the surge of protest activity following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, which left 1,200 dead and prompted Israel to declare war.
At the tip of the spear was Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York Republican, who repeated her December 2023 question that led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents: “Is calling for the genocide of Jews protected speech on your campus?”
Ms. Raymond responded, “No, of course not,” but the exchange went downhill from there as she refused to say what specific action the college had taken when confronted with a litany of troubling statements made by students and staff.
Asked repeatedly how the college responded to the incidents, Ms. Raymond condemned antisemitism but declined to give details, responding with long pauses or vague replies such as “investigations happen in all such cases.”
“Respectfully, representative, I will not be talking about individual cases,” Ms. Raymond said.
Ms. Stefanik fired back: “Respectfully, president of Haverford, many people have sat in this position who are no longer in the position as presidents of universities for their failure to answer straightforward questions.”
 @RepStefanik asked if ANY disciplinary action was taken when students called for the dismantling of Israel “by all means necessary.” Haverford’s president couldn’t say. Her silence is deafening. pic.twitter.com/VBSp2FWMEk
— House Committee on Education & Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) May 7, 2025
Five Jewish students filed a federal lawsuit last year against Haverford, citing episodes such as a math professor who reposted a pro-Hamas image with the caption: “We should never have to apologize for celebrating these scenes of an imprisoned people breaking free from their chains.”
Ms. Stefanik concluded her questioning by telling Ms. Raymond: “For the American people watching you, you still don’t get it. Haverford still doesn’t get it.”
The back-and-forth prompted Rep. Alma Adams, North Carolina Democrat, who was next up, to say that “as a former college professor, I really hate to see we’re threatening the leadership of these schools.”
The other two presidents faced tough questioning but fared better than Ms. Raymond. Both provided straightforward reports about the aggregate number of disciplinary actions related to the Hamas attack.
DePaul President Robert Manuel said eight student groups have been investigated since the attack. Two were suspended and placed on probation. There were two arrests after the dissolution last year of the campus encampment, one of which was a student.
Jeffrey Armstrong, president of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said six students were disciplined last year, with punishments ranging from two-quarter suspensions to deferred suspensions to probation.
