Student Protests

The school has attracted attention for its refusal to join the higher-ed resistance and, perhaps not coincidentally, for its avoidance of any direct sanctions by the Trump Administration.

In a new documentary about the pro-Palestine demonstrations on Columbia’s campus, students are in an existential battle of both exploiting and shedding their protagonist status.

The author discusses his story “From, To.”

Campus workers, who feel like they’ve been left in the lurch by college administrators, are figuring out how to deal with the latest wave of student demonstrations.

A graphic novel brings French student activism of the sixties to the fore.

As demonstrations roil American campuses, the Israeli right is using them to its own ends.

What explains the student movement against the war in Gaza? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you.

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions.

The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?

Carol Christ reflects on campus protests, then and now.

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

Studying the legacy of the student protests that helped usher China into the modern era reveals how China’s Communist Party became the kind of bureaucratic behemoth its founders had tried to banish.

Thank goodness there are others more optimistic than I am, people willing to engage in civil disobedience like the occupiers of University Hall fifty years ago.