The House Education and Workforce Committee released the transcript of its interview with Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., after Schill announced his resignation on Thursday.
The Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funds from the private university in April over the university’s handling of Jew-hatred.
In the Aug. 5 interview, committee members pressed Schill about the university’s response to the anti-Israel encampment at the school in spring 2024. The House panel redacted the names of those asked questions.
Asked about protesters surrounding a Jewish student at the encampment and shouting “shame” repeatedly, Schill said he couldn’t recall such an incident, per the transcript.
Schill acknowledged that there was an alleged assau