The recent wave of responses to the antisemitic comments Kanye West made on Twitter shows how uncomfortable and unprepared we are as a society to address religious-based bigotry, especially when it occurs on social media.
And, as our data indicate, colleges can’t handle it either.
Our research shows that universities are ill-prepared to address religious-based bigotry. We surveyed 185 institutions across the U.S. as part of the Interfaith Spiritual Religious and Secular Campus Climate Index (INSPIRES Index) and found that bias response teams are common at 63% of the institutions. However, 8 out of 10 institutions did not have particular training or preparation to deal with religiously motivated hate crimes. 
Dr. Matthew Mayhew
There also seems to be a gap in the infrastructure needed to respond to campus climate issues including religiously motivated hate crimes. For instance, 7 out of ten universities don’t have a specific resource to report bias incidents, and 9 out of 10 said that they don’t notify students about hate crimes as soon as they occur.
