A federal judge ordered the University of Pennsylvania to turn over personal contact information for employees affiliated with Jewish groups to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as part of an antisemitism investigation. U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert said the request was not limited to identifying every Jewish community member at Penn, and Penn must comply by May 1 while withholding certain narrow categories. The ruling reflects how rapidly higher education’s campus-climate disputes are spilling into federal enforcement processes. The EEOC’s subpoena seeks wide swaths of employee information, including names of employees who work in Jewish studies-related programs and those involved in Penn’s antisemitism task force. Penn has signaled it intends to appeal. The case is part of a broader second Trump administration effort to reshape higher education oversight, and it raises immediate operational questions for universities facing similar demands: what can be produced, what must be redacted, and how to do so without chilling protected participation and expression on campus.
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