The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal court to compel the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena in its probe of alleged antisemitic discrimination, while university employees rallied around Penn’s refusal to hand over names of Jewish faculty and student organizations. EEOC filed that request after alleging Penn failed to meet a Sept. 23 response deadline and after the university challenged parts of the subpoena on privacy grounds. Penn says it provided hundreds of documents and refused only to disclose personal contact information for employees and students without consent. EEOC asserts that the records are necessary to investigate claims that Jewish employees faced a hostile work environment, and it warned that obstruction undermines the probe. The dispute places campus privacy, civil‑rights enforcement and institutional cooperation in tension—raising precedent questions about how universities balance privacy with federal investigatory demands and how those decisions affect campus climate and accountability.