When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.

The Department of Education launched a Title VI investigation Thursday into George Mason University for allegedly illegally using race and other “immutable characteristics” in the school’s policies and personnel decisions.

Complaints about George Mason University allegedly discriminating against white faculty prompted the U.S. Department of Education to open a civil rights investigation this week.