Columbia University’s governing body backed President Nemat Shafik amid escalating demands for her resignation, spurred by student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Columbia University says that it is making “important progress” with pro-Palestinian student protesters who set up a tent encampment and the university has extended a deadline to clear out
Columbia University students agreed to take down "a significant number" of the dozens of tents set up on the school's main campus as part of a protest against Israel's incursion into Gaza, the New York school said on Wednesday.
The decision by Columbia University’s president to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations.
The university said discussions between the school and protesters are continuing and the student demonstrators have agreed to take down some of their tents.
Tensions appeared to ease at Columbia University on Wednesday after it extended a deadline for students to remove an encampment set up to protest Israel's Gaza incursion, while violence broke out at other college campuses as police dispersed similar protests.
Students at Harvard University escalated their campus protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict, mirroring actions that have erupted at Columbia, Yale and NYU.
Columbia University has said they are making “important progress” with representatives of the student encampment on campus as protests spread on campuses across the U.S.
Gaza war protesters have vowed to remain at Columbia University until their demands are met, despite mass arrests and disciplinary action. More than 100 students were arrested at a Columbia protest "encampment" last week,
The school had set a deadline of midnight Wednesday for it to reach an agreement with demonstrators about dispersing their encampment but extended that deadline early Wednesday for 48 hours.
Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police early Wednesday, but the situation remained tense with campus officials saying it would continue talks with pro-Palestinian protesters for another 48 hours.
Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday on campuses as school leaders sought to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called the protests antisemitic and said they are scared for their safety.
Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Jewish students at Columbia University on Wednesday and called on president Nemat "Minouche" Shafik to resign during a tense campus news conference before pro-Palestinian activists.
Guzman reiterated the university "values freedom of expression and protects the right of every member of our community to express themselves," but added, "We have well-established policies regarding limits on the time,
Palestinian protesters, who have built an encampment on campus to protest Israel’s war in Gaza, are ongoing. The university gave protesters a two-day extension to clear the tent encampment. CNN’s Omar Jimenez reports on the latest developments.
Columbia University has set a deadline for administrators and anti-Israel protesters to reach an agreement that would include ending the encampment on campus and dispersing.
Both are part of intensifying demonstrations over Israel’s war with Hamas by university students across the country demanding that schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies that are enabling its months long conflict.
Columbia University said it has extended negotiations with student activists over the dismantling of the pro-Palestinian encampment that has cast its campus into days of turmoil, a spokesperson for the school said.
Nemat Shafik, the university’s leader, met privately with faculty members, who could soon decide to admonish her. Columbia’s board, though, made its support clear.
Negotiations are continuing between Columbia University administrators and protesters over an encampment that has been set up on the school’s West Lawn, according to students involved in the negotiations.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received pushback from NYPD officials on Thursday after she criticized Columbia University for having made “the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students” to end an anti-Israel encampment.
Police moved in on both campuses after students began constructing camps on university grounds to protest against the ongoing Israeli operation in Gaza.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized Columbia University for sending in New York City police to manage pro-Palestinian protesters. It was a rare defense from a member of Congress of the protesters,
Columbia University gave pro-Palestinian protesters a deadline to resolve talks with officials over dismantling their encampment, president Minouche Shafik announced Tuesday. State of play: Shafik said in a message posted on the school's website Tuesday that the college would "consider alternative options" if students didn't leave the area by midnight.
Columbia University backed off late Thursday from an overnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon an encampment there as more college campuses in the United States sought to prevent occupations from taking hold.
Students at an encampment at Columbia University who inspired a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country dug in for their 10th day Friday, as administrators and police at college campuses from California to Connecticut wrestle with how to address protests that have seen scuffles with police and hundreds of arrests.
What began last week at Columbia University, where students refused to end their protests against Israel’s war in Gaza despite pushback from the New York school and arrests by police, has spread across the country.
The clock is ticking for pro-Palestine supporters to dismantle their encampment at Columbia University as protests intensify across the city. Student protestors are facing a looming deadline of Friday to remove their encampment as tensions remain high on and around campus,
Police have tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of
Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States on Thursday as authorities appeared to be running out of patience and police began to push back forcefully.Riot officers used chemical irritants and tasers at one university as administrators at some of the country's most prestigious institutions battled to prevent occupations taking hold.
As a deadline for Columbia University administrators and protesters to iron out a deal to clear a Gaza encampment edges closer, university officials are facing a lose-lose decision if students continue to flout school rules: Call in the NYPD for a second time or allow a situation they have said cannot continue to continue.
An NYPD chief blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wednesday over her criticisms of police treatment of Columbia University pro-Palestine protesters who were temporarily cleared out of their encampment.
While tensions rose between police and protesters at USC earlier in the day, in the evening a few dozen demonstrators standing in a circle with locked arms were detained one by one without incident. Police officers encircled the dwindling group,
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread across U.S. campuses, tensions remained high Wednesday at Columbia University, one of the first sites to see students bunker down to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
Spiraling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States spread to more campuses Wednesday, triggering suggestions from a senior Republican leader that the National Guard could be brought in.