Rutgers pushes TPUSA chapter to hold elections to replace officers

Management in Rutgers University He redoubles his efforts for the school Turning Point United States of America Chapter to Holding elections He would replace the officers who spoke out against the professor allied with Antifa Mark BrayAccording to emails obtained by Fox News Digital.

In an email Thursday, Neela Patel, executive director of Student Centers and Activities at Rutgers, directed the TPUSA chapter to hold an election to replace its treasurer, Megyn Doyle, the student who started the petition to remove Bray, as well as the vice president, who recently resigned.

“I am following up on the email below, which I sent on October 17, 2025, about officers following Turning Point USA-Rutgers,” Patel wrote. “To date, I have not received a response to discuss necessary next steps. Therefore, I request that the organization proceed with holding elections for the positions of Vice President and Treasurer, in accordance with university policies and the organization’s constitution.”

Patel added that the election must be completed by November 19, and that all candidates must meet specific eligibility requirements.

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TPUSA officers Megyn Doyle and Anna Cowan. (Rachel Del Guidice/Fox News Digital)

“When holding elections, please ensure that the following university requirements for student organization officers are met,” Patel added. “Officers must be full-time undergraduate students at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Officers must have a minimum GPA of 2.0 at Rutgers University. First semester students are not eligible for officer positions.”

The email follows earlier correspondence obtained by Fox News Digital from Karima Woodyard, director of student engagement and leadership at Rutgers University, who told the TPUSA chapter that both Doyle and Ava Cowan, the chapter’s outreach coordinator, should be removed from their positions.

Woodyard argued that neither student was qualified to serve in executive roles because Doyle is enrolled at Rutgers’ Newark campus and Cowan is a graduate student.

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Mark Bray, assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, waits in a hotel room in Newark, New Jersey, before a planned trip to Spain on Thursday, October 9, 2025. (Ted Shaffery/AP Photo)

Woodyard emphasized that because the TPUSA chapter “is classified as an undergraduate student organization on the New Brunswick campus, both individuals are not eligible for executive board positions within your group.”

Earlier this month, members Rutgers is a turning point in the United States of America Chapter They launched a petition, led by Doyle, to remove Bray, L.L Teaching assistant professorCiting concerns about his previous statements supporting the Antifa movement.

Bray, who recently moved abroad “for safety reasons” and said he had been subjected to harassment and “received several death threats”, has expressed strong support for “anti-racism” in his previous online posts. He teaches his classes remotely from Spain.

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He is the author of the book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Guide,” which explicitly calls for “anti-fascism.” This book says that “at least 50 percent of the author’s proceeds will go to the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, administered by more than three hundred Antifa from eighteen countries.”

The International Fund for Defense Against Fascism says on its website that it has “given more than $250,000 to more than 800 anti-fascists in 26 different countries.”

Doyle, a student at Rutgers University and treasurer of the Turning Point USA chapter, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Woodyard’s “decision to step down as TPUSA’s advisor for the school year is a way for her to avoid accountability. Ava and I have been trying to find answers as to why our students’ situations are affected now, as we have held these positions since the beginning of the school year.”

“We have reason to believe that Rutgers is choosing to implement its policy whenever it wants based on the timing of the entire situation,” she added.

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The International Fund for Defense Against Fascism says on its website that it has “given more than $250,000 to more than 800 anti-fascists in 26 different countries.” (Reuters)

In an email to Patel obtained by Fox News Digital, Cowan wrote: “Based on the timing of this investigation, this appears to be an intentional weaponization of proceedings due to Megyn and I’s public opposition to an Antifa affiliate who installed himself at our public university on New Jersey taxpayer money.”

She added, “Given the circumstances, we ask for transparency about who ordered this investigation into our chapter, and an answer to why it was launched. At no time during the student organization onboarding process was we made aware of any issue.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital last week, Rutgers said: “Turning Point USA is a recognized student organization on the Rutgers University New Brunswick campus. Like all student organizations, it is expected to operate in accordance with our stated policies and procedures.”

“The University has determined that two individuals publicly presenting themselves as officers of the TPUSA chapter were not properly registered as officers in accordance with University procedures. Additionally, these individuals do not meet the eligibility requirements for officer positions in a university student organization in New Brunswick.”

“The university is reviewing this internally and is working with the chapter to address compliance and ensure continued operations of the organization on campus, consistent with our approach to all student organizations.”

In an email response Friday from Patel to Cowan obtained by Fox News Digital, Patel said there was no investigation into the Rutgers TPUSA chapter and that the university reached out when it learned that Doyle and Cowan did not meet eligibility requirements.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Rutgers for additional comment.