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Columbia University has issued a range of punishments against students involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus this year and in 2024, the school announced Tuesday, marking its latest response to pressure from the Trump administration, which has cut $400 million in funding from the school, targeted its accreditation and blasted its handling of the protests in recent months.
Pro-Palestinian protests have become a hot button issue at Columbia. (Photo by David Dee … More
Key Facts
Punishments were handed down to students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that involved the occupation of a campus library in May and the setup of an encampment in an academic building last April.
The specifics of the punishments for each individual student will not be disclosed by Columbia, though the school shared the sanctions include “probation, suspensions (ranging from one year to three years), degree revocations, and expulsions.”
Columbia said following the library occupation it banned non-university affiliated participants from campus and placed Columbia participants on interim suspension, noting its judicial board held hearings in which respondents could make their cases, and issued sanctions Monday.
Columbia lauded the speed at which its “updated” judicial board came to its conclusions, giving praise to the administrative body after it refused demands from the Trump administration earlier this year to abolish the board entirely and place disciplinary processes directly under the office of the university president (Columbia instead placed the board under the office of the provost, who reports to the president).
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