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Columbia will replace its universitywide commencement ceremony on May 15 with "smaller-scale, school-based celebrations," university officials announced Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Columbia University on Monday canceled its main graduation ceremony after weeks of pro-Palestinian protests roiled the Ivy League college's campus, but it will still hold ...
University officials said they did not want to cancel graduation ceremonies entirely, and each school at Columbia already holds its own smaller graduation in addition to the main one, in which the ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation Part of the pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, the Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States, and student activism at Columbia University A scene of the second campus encampment, several days after the NYPD arrested ...
The 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation was a protest at Columbia University in New York City. The protests began on April 17, 2024, when pro-Palestinian students established an encampment of approximately fifty tents on the university's campus, and ended on June 2, 2024. [37]
The 1786 commencement was the university's first commencement after its re-founding as Columbia College following the American Revolution, and was held on April 11 of that year in St. Paul's Chapel. After nearly a decade of suspended operations on account of the war, the event was regarded as "a most auspicious one in the annals of New York."
Columbia has cancelled its commencement ceremony on 15 May for smaller celebrations, citing ‘security concerns’ as one of the main reasons
[a] The occupations have also resulted in the closure of Columbia University, [40] Cal Poly Humboldt, [41] and the University of Amsterdam; [42] rolling strikes by academic workers on campuses in California; [43] and the cancellation of a few university graduation ceremonies in the U.S., with protests occurring at various ceremonies. [44] [45] [46]