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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 ]
Hundreds of Columbia faculty members walked out of classes to protest the university's response to the protest. [69] Because of the protest, the university canceled classes on April 22, [ 70 ] [ 71 ] and then said it would switch to blended learning for the remainder of the semester. [ 10 ]
A timeline illustrating how Columbia University became the driving force behind protests on college campuses across the country: ___ APRIL 17. Students set up an encampment at Columbia University the same day university president Minouche Shafik is called for questioning before Congress. Shafik is heavily criticized by Republicans who accuse ...
Columbia University in New York City has been the scene of student activism since its inception. The term Columbia University protests may refer to: 1968 Columbia University protests; 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations
Pete Seeger, right, speaks to the crowd at Columbia University as hundreds of students continued to protest the school's ties to South Africa, April 8, 1985. The protests were against the ...
University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. The pro-Palestinian demonstration and subsequent arrests at Columbia that have set off similar protests at campuses ...
A vile Columbia University student demonstration seeking to “reclaim” Veterans Day in the name of Palestinians killed in Gaza turned out to be a far cry from the protests that raged on campus ...
[54] U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also criticized the deployment of police against the Columbia University protest, calling it an "escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act". [353] Irvine, California Mayor Farrah Khan said: "I am asking our law enforcement to stand down. I will not tolerate any violations to our students' rights ...