The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) recently announced the formation of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Jewish and Campus Life. By creating the Council, UIUC is making good on one of the commitments it made in its “Joint Statement on Anti-Semitism.” In that Statement, to which the Brandeis Center is a signatory, the university pledged to take a number of concrete steps to address anti-Semitism on its campus and support Jewish students. The university promised to create an advisory council on Jewish and campus life to “assist the chancellor and university leadership to identify opportunities to enhance the campus environment for all students, faculty, and staff, and to advance its commitment to an inclusive community where all feel welcome.” UIUC’s Chancellor stated that the creation of the Council will “help us advance our commitment to an inclusive community where anti-Semitism and other forms of hate will not be tolerated.” Former Chancellor, Richard Herman, and Erez Cohen, the executive director of Illini Hillel, will co-chair the Advisory Council. Other notable members include Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, and the assistant director of the Gies College of Business. The Council also includes UIUC alumni, students, and professors. In November of 2020, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into a complaint filed on behalf of UIUC’s Jewish students, alleging that UIUC has allowed a hostile environment to proliferate on its campus in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint was filed by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP together with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law in March 2020, with consultation from the Jewish United Fund and Hillel International. OCR’s investigation of the complaint is ongoing.