Administrators representing the three colleges located at Denver’s Auraria Campus during a hearing Wednesday defended the institutional responses to an anti-war encampment that occurred last year.
The 10-member Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights oversees an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the Auraria Campus, site of the University of Colorado Denver, Community College of Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
In April 2024, anti-war demonstrators set up an encampment on the Auraria Campus quad, in protest of university policies relating to Israel and the war in Gaza. They called for the university to condemn “the genocidal actions of Israel” and divest from companies that manufacture weapons or operate in Israel…