Institutional change has to be widespread.
鈥淟ast year, we had a bunch of hate crimes on campus that targeted international students, Black students, and Jewish students. There were some swastikas and Jewish professors received nasty emails. What resulted from that was a list of needs that we issued from the Jewish community to the administration. One of those needs was to develop a university-wide anti-Semitism training. So incoming students, including faculty, will have to go through this training called Stop Bias. We just got the first pilot training off the ground 鈥 which is really cool. We鈥檙e doing it all through Hillel, and I鈥檓 a part of the team that helped develop it, and I鈥檓 also part of the team that鈥檚 helping to deploy it. There鈥檚 two parts to the program: The first part is learning about what antisemitism is and how it relates to who we are on campus, because antisemitism manifests differently wherever you are. Then the second part is what you can do to stop it and how you can be an ally to your Jewish friends. Institutional change has to be widespread, it can鈥檛 just come from two or three people. The feedback from the program has been great so far, and it seems like people on our campus are really learning about antisemitism.鈥 鈥 Rebecca Sereboff,