Overview
- At a UC Berkeley press event, CAIR announced the designations and said roughly 1,000 UC alumni have pledged to withhold donations until campus climate and policies change.
- UC Berkeley responded that it has an unwavering commitment to free speech and to confronting harassment and discrimination, while Wayne State said it supports free expression in a content‑neutral manner.
- CAIR’s researcher cited alleged incidents at Berkeley, including a faculty member grabbing a Palestinian law student and a professor singling out a student over pro‑Palestinian symbols, with some matters described as under investigation.
- For Wayne State, CAIR pointed to a civil rights complaint, policy inconsistencies, and board meetings shifted online as evidence of what it calls repression of Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and allied students.
- The additions bring CAIR’s list to 28 campuses nationwide, as the UC system’s protest‑related Code of Conduct revisions—including bans on encampments and full‑face masks—remain in effect.