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Nearly 1,000 students have been arrested at campuses across the country since April 18 as college presidents struggle with how to maintain control of their campus while students and others protest the Israel-Hamas conflict and the fate of Palestinian civilians.  Student protests and encampments have appeared on some 50 campuses across the country.
 
Students have been arrested at the following campuses:  Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, University of Southern California, Emerson College, Emory University, Northeastern University, Washington University in St. Louis, California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt, University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, ,Ohio State University, Indiana University, Auraria Higher Education Center, Arizona State University, Princeton University, , Virginia Tech and University of Mary Washington
 
Below is a selection of news stories and commentary from media across the country:
 
Divest? Call the Cops? Presidents Grapple With How to Respond
Inside Higher Ed (April 29, 2024)
 
House Reps Want Antisemitism Monitors for College Campuses
Inside Higher Ed (April 29, 2024)
 
Student Protests Over the Israel-Hamas War Roil US Campuses Ahead of Graduations
The Associated Press (April 29, 2024)
 
How Columbia University’s Complex History With the Student Protest Movement Echoes into Today
The Associated Press (April 29, 2024)
 
Columbia President Minouche Shafik Admits Talks With Anti-Israel Protesters Have Failed — And That Jewish Students Feel Unsafe
New York Post (April 29, 2024)
 
Why Encampments Scare College Presidents
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26, 2024)
 
Some Professors Face Punishments as Colleges Crack Down on Gaza Protests
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26, 2024)
 
Pro-Palestinian Legal Group Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Columbia University
Higher Ed Dive (April 29, 2024)
 
Talks Fail to End Israel War Protest at Columbia University: Live Updates
USA Today  (April 29, 2024)
 
Where Campus Protests Have Led to Arrests Across the U.S.
The Washington Post (April 29, 2024)
 
For Jewish Students, Protests Stir Fear, Anger, Hope and Questions
The Washington Post (April 29, 2024)
 
Policing Campus Protests of Israel-Gaza War Brings New Set of Challenges
The Washington Post (April 29, 2024)
 
As Colleges Weigh Crackdowns on Protests, Questions About Outsiders Linger
The New York Times (April 28, 2024)
 
Commencement Speakers Launch Boycott of USC Satellite Graduation Ceremonies
Los Angeles Times (April 29, 2024)
 
Dueling Gaza Protests at UCLA Draw Hundreds as USC Sees Peaceful Demonstration
Los Angeles Times (April 29, 2024)
 
Campus Anti-War Protesters Dig in From New York to California as Universities and Police Take Action
Minneapolis Star Tribune (April 29, 2024)
 
Horror as GWU Protester Carries Sign With Nazi ‘Final Solution’ Call for Extermination of Jews
New York Post (April 26, 2024)
 
University Of Washington Anti-Israel Encampment Postponed Over Lack of Diversity
New York Post (April 26, 2024)
 
George Soros Is Paying Student Radicals Who Are Fueling Nationwide Explosion of Israel-Hating Protests
New York Post (April 26, 2024)
 
Signs of ‘Foreign Assistance’ Emerge in Columbia, NYU Unrest: Anti-Israel Agitators
New York Post (April 26, 2024)
 
Columbia Anti-Israel Encampment Ringleader Khymani James Rages ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ in Newly Resurfaced Video
New York Post (April 26, 2024)
 
 
Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education - Commentary
The New York Times (April 29, 2024)
 
Colleges Have Gone off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out. - Commentary
The New York Times (April 28, 2024)
 
On Columbia University and Coach Handbags - Commentary
The Wall Street Journal (April 28, 2024)
 
At Columbia, Israel Backers Are Outside Looking In - Commentary
The Wall Street Journal (April 28, 2024)
 
Antisemitism at Columbia University Is a Disgrace – Commentary
The Wall Street Journal (April 26, 2024)
 

Morehouse College leaders made a celebratory announcement last week that President Biden would be this year’s commencement speaker. But the news was met with anything but celebration by some students, faculty members and alumni of the historically Black men’s college in Atlanta, who condemn Biden’s support for Israel.
An activist group called Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine - Georgia issued a statement the next day urging Morehouse to rescind Biden’s invitation to speak in May. The group warned that hosting Biden would alienate donors and prospective students and prompt protests related to the ongoing violence in Gaza.

The University of Saint Katherine, a private Orthodox Christian school in San Marcos, is shutting down indefinitely and filing for bankruptcy, President and founder Frank Papatheofanis announced Thursday. In an email to students, faculty and staff members that circulated on social media, he said the institution could no longer meet its financial obligations due to “a steep shortfall in operating cash.”

The leaders of Wells College (NY) said today the 156-year-old college will close at the end of the spring semester after failing to weather a financial crisis amid declining enrollment. The college, an anchor in the village of Aurora in Cayuga County since 1868, broke the news to students, alumni and staff in a public letter posted on its website this morning. Board Chair Marie Chapman Carroll and President Jonathan Gibralter said that college officials determined the school will not have enough revenue to achieve financial stability in the years ahead.

With protests over Israel's war in Gaza continuing on college campuses across the U.S., administrators are negotiation with student groups, the University of Southern California cancelled the school's main commencement ceremony, and hundreds of students have been arrested.
 
At Columbia University, the epicenter of the protest movement following testimony on antisemitism before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce by president Minouche Shafik, D. Phil., negotiations were reportedly ongoing despite a rumored deadline of Thursday at midnight for students to vacate the campus lawn.
 
Since then hundreds of students have set up similar encampments from California to Massachusetts, leading to a national debate over free speech on college campuses as some Jewish students and administrators say the demonstrations have at times been sites of antisemitism.
 
Below is a selection of news stories from around the country:
 
Police Ratchet Up Use of Force on Campus Protesters
Inside Higher Ed (April 26, 2024)

Here’s What Student ‘Boycott, Divest, and Sanction’ Activists Are Demanding
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26, 2024)

Many Students Are Facing Campus Discipline for Protesting. What Could That Mean?
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26, 2024)

Here’s Where Student Protesters Are Demanding Divestment From Israel
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 26, 2024)

At Emory, Protesters Face Gas and Police Force After Setting Up Encampment
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 25, 2024)
 
College Protests Over Israel's War in Gaza Continue Following Hundreds of Arrests
USA Today (April 26, 2024)
 
More Arrests and a Canceled Commencement as College Antiwar Rallies Spread
The Washington Post (April 26, 2024)
 
‘DIVEST’: College Endowments Turn into Flash Point of Student Protests
The Washington Post (April 26, 2024)
 
Columbia’s University Senate Is Said to Consider Less Severe Action Against Its President
The New York Times (April 26, 2024)
 
Protesters Are Demanding Colleges Divest From Israel. Here’s Why That’s Not Happening.
The Wall Street Journal (April 26, 2024)
 
Pro-Palestinian Protests Grow at California Campuses as Opposing Demonstrators Clash at UCLA
Los Angeles Times (April 26, 2024)
 
USC Cancels ‘Main Stage’ Commencement Ceremony
Los Angeles Times (April 26, 2024)
 
Princeton U. Breaks Up Pro-Palestinian Encampment, Arrests Students
NJ.com (April 26, 2024)
 
Support for Pro-Palestinian Encampments at Emerson, MIT Only Growing, Students Say
MassLive.com (April 26, 2024)
 
Stanford Students Erect Pro-Palestine Encampment in Defiance of University's Rules
San Francisco Chronicle (April 25, 2024)
 
Anti-Israel Protesters Set Up ‘Intifada’ Tent Camp at State-Funded NYC College
New York Post (April 25, 2024)
 
Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Tent Camp at 2 Am: ‘The Biggest Threat’ to Protesters
New York Post (April 25, 2024)
 
 
The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go - Commentary
The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 25, 2024)
 
The Divestment Encampments Don’t Make Any Sense - Commentary
Washington Monthly (April 25, 2024)