Islamophobia Working Group records, 2015-2019
The Islamophobia Working Group Records series (266.4 MB) documents the goals and projects of the group from 2015-2019. The series contains administrative information including email correspondence, progress reports, and meeting minutes and agendas. It also features information from IWG's projects to establish safe and accessible reflection rooms on campus and to implement Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) as a demographic category on University materials.
The series also includes information about the IWG's support of John Cheney-Lippold. Cheney-Lippold, a faculty member in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, was disciplined in fall 2018 for refusing to write a letter for recommendation for a student to study abroad in Israel. He cited his participation in an academic boycott of Israel in support of Palestinians as his reason for refusing to write the letter. The series contains letters written by members of the Islamophobia Working Group and other faculty in support of Cheney-Lippold and records media coverage of the controversy.