Columbia’s president had earlier said that she did not want to deprive students of an in-person celebration after many graduated high school during the pandemic.
The president has allowed protest encampments. But they have also disrupted campus life, and he wants the tents down.
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Most of Gaza’s schools, including all of its universities, have severe damage that makes them unusable, which could harm an entire generation, the United Nations and others say.
Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect.
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The university has been in turmoil following the decision not to allow its valedictorian to speak at graduation.
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The new application for federal tuition aid was meant to be simpler. High school seniors say it has been anything but, and some are still unsure of their plans after graduation.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Saturday, the anniversary of the 1970 shooting by the National Guard that killed four students.
Some protesters questioned the magnitude of the police response, compared with the school’s response in 2017 to white nationalists marching on campus with torches.
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City officials have blamed “external actors” for escalating demonstrations at Columbia University and elsewhere, but student protesters reject the claim.
The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.
Ohio State, Indiana University and Northeastern have graduation ceremonies this weekend, all happening on the heels of clashes between protesters and the police.
Police officers in riot gear cleared an encampment in Virginia, and protesters walked out of a commencement at Indiana University.
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The public college based in Harlem has a long history of radical politics and activism.
After President Nemat Shafik called the police to arrest protesters on campus earlier this week, she asked the school community to “show empathy and compassion for one another.”
The real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht’s scathing criticism of his alma mater is the most immediate blowback against the school’s deal to end protests on campus.
The New York Times used videos filmed by journalists, witnesses and protesters to analyze hours of clashes — and a delayed police response — at a pro-Palestinian encampment on Tuesday.
The president of the University of Chicago said on Friday that the pro-Palestinian encampment on his campus’s quad “cannot continue,” a position that was being closely watched in higher education because the university has long held itself up as a...
Abroad, some have praised the demonstrations. Others call the crackdowns evidence of American hypocrisy, or of a nation coming apart.
A video showing Annelise Orleck, 65, being taken to the ground intensified criticism of the decision by the college’s president to call in officers.
Columbia University’s radio station and other student-led news outlets have provided some of the most detailed coverage of the turmoil engulfing university campuses.
The university said it would hold a celebration at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. More than 100 school-specific graduations and smaller receptions will also take place with tighter security.
Passion counts for a lot, but the bottom line should be results. The protests seem to be headed in a different direction.
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The university is home to the Chicago statement, a framework for free expression that has been embraced by other colleges.
Nearly three decades ago, a young reporter slept on the floor of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall for several nights to file an article for The Village Voice.
Protesters had been camped out for days, demanding that their schools end financial ties with Israel.
Activism often lands on the right side of history. But history also shows that tactical mistakes — and smashing windows — can weaken protests’ effectiveness.
Student activists in Australia, Britain, France and elsewhere are challenging their universities’ stances on the war in Gaza and ties to Israel.
Over the past week, thousands of students protesting the war in Gaza have been arrested.
With tensions escalating and Republicans pouncing, President Biden finally weighed in and sought to increase the distance between himself and some of the more radical activism on colleges.
To get protesters off campus lawns, Brown University and others have agreed to consider ending investments linked to Israel. But how?
The first big pro-Israel counter demonstration was on Sunday in Los Angeles, home to large Israeli and Jewish populations. More are planned in the coming days.
And the role politicians play in all of it.
Muchos estudiantes argumentan que el sufrimiento de los palestinos es el resultado de estructuras globales de poder que prosperan gracias al prejuicio y la opresión.
Footage of the shooting was captured on the officer’s body camera and provided to the Manhattan district attorney. The officer was on the first floor of Hamilton Hall when his gun went off.
¿Campamentos? ¿edificios tomados? Los manifestantes invocan su derecho a la libre expresión, pero el tema es espinoso.
A union representing academic workers said it would file unfair labor charges against the University of California, Los Angeles, and potentially walk out over the handling of protests this week.
At U.C.L.A., a few professors helped negotiate with the university. At Columbia, they guarded the encampment. But not all faculty members are on board.
The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order.
As crews cleared the remnants of an encampment, students and faculty members wondered how the university could have handled protests over the war in Gaza so badly.
Some of those arrested during the pro-Palestinian demonstration were outsiders, who appeared to be unaffiliated with the school, according to an analysis of Police Department data.
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A crackdown on demonstrators at Columbia University in New York spawned a wave of activism at universities across the country, with more than 2,300 arrests or detainments.
America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.
Responses to news and opinion articles about the campus protests. Also: Trump logic; pondering another civil war; lessons in the classroom.
At Boston University, scholars, students and writers gathered to share thoughts on the role of gender and sexuality in the food space. Snacks were plentiful.
President Biden defended the right to dissent but made clear that he believed too many of the demonstrations had gone beyond the bounds of free speech.
Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police officers who moved in to dismantle an encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Police officers dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment and made arrests after a tense hourslong standoff overnight with demonstrators on the campus.
Police officers dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment and made arrests after a tense hourslong standoff overnight with demonstrators on the campus.
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The Staten Island branch of St. John’s University is more than just a school.
The tumult in Bloomington, Ind., where large protests have led to dozens of arrests and calls for university leaders to resign, shows the reach of the protest movement.
What is the line between civil disobedience and lawlessness?
The planned neighborhood in the far west of Manhattan has rebounded, at least in terms of leasing office space.
Doxxing and other consequences have led many student protesters on college campuses to hide their identities. That choice has been polarizing.
I worry that the more aggressive demonstrators may be hurting the Gazans they’re trying to support.
The former president called protesters “raging lunatics” and suggested, without evidence, that they were hired to draw attention away from border crossings.
President Biden has made little effort to personally address the anti-Israel protests, frustrating some Democrats who want him to show more public leadership.
Columbia has taken the spotlight after twice asking the police to quell pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. Brown University chose a different path.
Demonstrators have raised Palestinian flags in place of American flags on several campuses, and drawn an angry response.
In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.
Videos show Lisa Fithian, whom the police called a “professional agitator,” working alongside protesters who stormed Hamilton Hall.
Los trabajos de nivel universitario siguen pagando mucho más en general, pero no todos los graduados pueden conseguir uno.
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Encampments? Occupying buildings? Demonstrators cite their right to free expression, but the issues are thorny.
Los hallazgos de un estudio de Oxford cuestionan el efecto de los servicios de salud mental para empleados.
Violence broke out as counterprotesters attempted to pull down barricades at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York defended the arrests of nearly 300 protesters and said he would not allow the protests to disrupt the city.
Two students were among those arrested early Wednesday, the university said. Officers from three law enforcement agencies moved in after ordering the group to disperse.
The protests have come at a fearful time for Palestinians in Rafah, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowing to launch a ground invasion of the city.
With wood pallets piled at the entrance, dozens of pro-Palestinian activists are holed up in the Portland State University library. Here’s a look inside the makeshift fortress.
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The university called in law enforcement officers to help after “horrific acts of violence” occurred on campus Tuesday night, an official said.
Columbia’s president expressed regret about calling in the police to clear a previous protest. On Tuesday, she said she had “no choice” after protesters occupied a building on campus.
Officers entered the building through a second-floor window using a bridge on top of an emergency service vehicle.
The arrests came after pro-Palestinian protesters tried to take over an administrative building at City College. Earlier, the police cleared a building that had been occupied at nearby Columbia University.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University in Manhattan were arrested Tuesday night by hundreds of police officers in riot gear after Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, requested police intervention.
The university released the letter after police entered Hamilton Hall, a building that was occupied by dozens of demonstrators. Columbia’s commencement is currently scheduled for May 15.
Brown students took down their tents on campus after the university in Rhode Island agreed to discuss their demands for divestment from support for the Israeli military.
Despite hundreds of arrests and threats of disciplinary action, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have continued into a third week.
Miguel A. Cardona told lawmakers that his department was continuing to investigate complaints of antisemitism at dozens of colleges since Oct. 7.
By Tuesday afternoon, protesters had broken through the barriers keeping them out of an encampment, and they replaced an American flag in the center of campus with a Palestinian one.
Protesters at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, clashed with police officers working to restore an American flag that the demonstrators had replaced with a Palestinian one.
For President Biden, the campus unrest over the Gaza war recalls peace protests of his youth. But this time he cannot easily bypass the turmoil.
Republican leaders said they would hold additional hearings with top university administrators and potentially withhold millions of federal dollars from universities that fail to keep Jewish students safe.
The students who took over Hamilton Hall on Tuesday could be charged with a range of offenses, but they are unlikely to face jail time, according to a legal expert.
Representative Don Bacon accused Representative Ilhan Omar of antisemitism in suggesting some Jewish students were “pro-genocide.” Democratic leaders have said little about their colleague’s language.
Demonstrators unfurled a banner with the name of a 6-year-old girl who died this year in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas.
Protesters had occupied an administration building for over a week, leading the university to shut down the campus.
Plus, a deadly day for law enforcement.
The Columbia University building, which opened in 1907, has been occupied several times by student activists.
The reptiles, an endangered species, hadn’t been seen in the state since the 1970s.
People inside barricaded the doors of Hamilton Hall with furniture. Outside, demonstrators linked arms to wall off entrances.
Suggesting that some Jewish students are “pro-genocide,” the Minnesota congresswoman seemed to further polarize an already polarizing debate.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have occupied the administration building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, for the past week and forced a campus closure until May 10.
On Monday, Columbia administrators issued an ultimatum to student protestors: leave their encampments or face suspension. In response, several faculty members created a human barrier.
The university had set a noon deadline for an end to overnight stays at the site, but students remained there on Monday afternoon.
Days after a crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, at least 50 people were arrested after new tents were erected on the Austin campus.
College-level jobs still pay a lot more overall, but not every grad can get one.
Students in the encampment were told they would be suspended if they did not leave before the deadline.
Pro-Palestinian student activists say their movement is anti-Zionist but not antisemitic. It is not a distinction that everyone accepts.
Representative Ilhan Omar made the comments at Columbia University, where her daughter was among the students arrested protesting against Israel’s actions in Gaza. The protests have drawn visits by leaders across the political spectrum.
Khymani James, a Columbia University student, was barred from campus after his January video resurfaced online last week.
Sampling the outpouring of responses to the continuing protests on college campuses. Also: The Trump criminal cases; Trump, Pence and abortion.
University officials had started suspending students that refused to leave the encampment on campus, hoping to ease the situation. Instead, it appeared that the protest was expanding on campus.
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Oral arguments serve a crucial role at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts said last week at Georgetown University. But they are not always what they seem.
Student protests at their core are really an extension of education by other means.
And a few things we’d like to forget.
Students at the university staged “Mayday,” a show that satirizes the administration, especially the beleaguered president, Nemat Shafik.
Scenes of chaos unfolding on campuses across the country are stoking internal divisions and carry political risk as a major election year unfolds.
With pro-Palestinian protests spreading across campuses nationwide, university leaders have had to confront a central question: When does a demonstration cross the line?
How do we find our way to a campus culture in which everyone can be heard?
The police made arrests at Washington University in St. Louis, Northeastern in Boston, Arizona State and Indiana, as more schools move in on encampments.
Business executives who are concerned about antisemitism on college campuses have other options for influencing the schools’ actions, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.
How Israel became the focus of so much of contemporary protest politics.
Alberta is seeking powers to veto funding agreements between the federal government and provincial entities, including postsecondary institutions.
Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move. Hundreds have been arrested.
College students started a venture that has diverted glass bottles from landfills and crushed them into sand for coastal restoration efforts.
Educational institutions across the United States are spending more money to renovate museums and make them a more integral part of learning.
Mr. Kim, the New Jersey congressman, has become the odds-on favorite to win Robert Menendez’s Senate seat. His strategy? Don’t ask anyone for permission.
The students had been among more than 100 who were suspended for participating in an encampment at Columbia University.
The senators voted for a resolution that accused the administration of breaching the due-process rights of students and professors.
There may be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.
On Fox and in other conservative outlets, the protests have given new lease to a long-running argument that students at elite universities are intolerant of conservative views.
Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even as overseas campuses have stayed relatively calm.
After video surfaced on social media, the student, Khymani James, said on Friday that his comments were wrong.
After Covid ruined high school graduation for the class of 2020, the response to campus protests might upend their college commencements.
Experts say high school seniors are more likely to go to college if they complete the financial aid form, but the state sees privacy issues with mandating it.
Dr. Shafik, who began her role in July, has faced increasing pressure over her congressional testimony and her handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
Lessons from a tumultuous summer.
We looked at how far South Africa has come in meeting its goals after 30 years of freedom.
Worried about the repercussions of a censure vote, the group may offer a watered-down proposal.