Please share this survey with any Jewish college students you may know! If you have any questions or concerns about the research study, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Thank you in advance for your help!

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Students have until October 31, 2025 to complete the survey. To access the survey, students can click on this link: tinyurl.com/JISHEsurvey

To be eligible for this study, students must:
- Be at least 18 years old
- Identify as Jewish
- Attend a 4-year college or university in the United States as an undergraduate student

In appreciation for participating in the study, all students who complete the survey will have the option to enter into a raffle to win 1 of 5 $50 Amazon e-gift cards or 1 of 10 $25 Amazon e-gift cards.

You can read the full article here (if you can't access through your institution, let me know and I can send you a copy): doi.org/10.1080/2194...

In other words, students with more privileged identities also benefit from cultural centers, directly refuting the narratives that are being pushed by legislators who argue that these spaces are enacting some kind of reverse discrimination.

👏🏼 Everyone 👏🏼 benefits 👏🏼 from 👏🏼 DEI 👏🏼

We found that students who engaged with cultural centers reported higher civic engagement skills and frequency of engagement across all racial, gender, and sexual identities. This was true not only for students with minoritized identities, but also for men, white students, and straight students.

Thank you! Best of luck to you too! You got this!

You can find the full article here: doi.org/10.1037/dhe0...

If your institution does not have access, let me know and I would be happy to send you a copy.

When I started this project 2 years ago, I kept wondering: “Why does higher ed stay silent on issues affecting Jews?” “Why are campus responses to antisemitism so poor?” Ultimately, we can’t address or fix what we don’t understand. We can’t understand something if we refuse to learn about it.

I found:
- Only 2 articles focused primarily on Jews and/or antisemitism
- Jewishness was often framed as only religious, ignoring racial/ethnic dimensions
- When listed as a demographic variable, it was rarely explored in depth
- Research on Jewish identity in higher education is topically narrow

Given the attacks on trans communities in higher education right now, it feels especially important to share this research. We look forward to sharing the third article in the series soon! (4/4)

We also found that trans students were less likely to feel that sharing pronouns is a common practice at their institution. Finally, trans students were also less likely than cisgender students to feel that instructors and staff ask about and use students' gender pronouns correctly. (3/4)