The deadline for institutions to
apply for Hillel International’s 2022-23 Campus Climate Initiative (CCI) Cohort is July 18.
In the past five years, antisemitic incidents on U.S. campuses have tripled. The CCI cohort experience is designed to empower college and university administrators to build awareness, allyship, and action around this issue as part of broader efforts to address hate and bias on campus so that Jewish students can feel comfortable expressing their identity.
The CCI Campus Cohort program, which is supported by the ACE Engage digital platform, is a collaborative, educational, and practical experience that enables college and university administrators, in partnership with their campus Hillel professional, to engage in:
- Gathering, assessing, and utilizing data to better understand the current climate for Jewish students in their campus community and to inform strategic next steps;
- Training and empowering university administration and staff to better understand the needs of Jewish students, the diversity of the Jewish community, and the challenges of campus antisemitism; and
- Creating and adopting best practice policies, procedures, and programs to address antisemitism and foster a positive campus climate for Jewish students and all students.
The cohort experience will include a virtual launch event in September and an in-person conference tentatively scheduled for January 2023. Among the criteria that will be weighed when considering an institution’s application is whether there is a strong Hillel presence on campus.
ACE is proud to support efforts to combat campus antisemitism, and collaborated with Hillel and the American Jewish Committee in April on the
University Presidents Summit on Campus Antisemitism in New York City. The summit, attended by more than three dozen college and university presidents, explored meaningful ways institutions can respond to antisemitism within the context of fulfilling their overarching diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mission to combat all forms of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and harassment on campus while respecting principles of academic freedom and free speech.
For more information about the Hillel CCI cohort experience and application process, click
here, or contact Alex Zissman at
azissman@hillel.org.