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Monday’s demonstration will protest the announcement of plans to equip about 20 of GW Police Department officers with 9 mm handguns by the fall semester.

Urban colleges, including Washington’s George Washington University, are joining rural schools in arming campus police, agreeing that when an active shooter starts firing, every minute counts.

Faculty senators will present reports on policy changes for classroom recordings at the Faculty Senate meeting Friday.

Interim University President Mark Wrighton said the Board of Trustees approved a policy to arm roughly 20 GWPD officers with 9 mm handguns.

Staff will elect 25 unionized workers who are not deans, provosts or vice presidents by July 1 to the Staff Council, which will meet monthly to deliver feedback on GW policies.

The Office for Civil Rights is investigating antisemitism allegations in a GW course after a GW-hired investigation found “no evidence” of discrimination.

(JTA) – George Washington University has cleared a professor of allegations from a federal civil rights complaint that she discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students, in the latest instance of

Student protesters from seven universities joined GW Dissenters in urging their universities to divest from war and weapons manufacturers.

Experts said adopting the definition could address antisemitism on campuses, but some said it could label criticisms of the Israeli government as antisemitic.

George Washington University on Monday trumpeted the results of an investigation that allegedly cleared the university and Professor Lara Sheehi of anti-Semitism. But the school won't release the full report, penned by an outside law firm retained by the school, that it is claiming exonerates it.