Students who took over a college facility during pro-Palestinian demonstrations last spring received a variety of sanctions from Columbia University, the university announced Thursday. The declaration was made one week after the administration of President Donald Trump declared that it had canceled $400 million in federal contracts and grants because of the Ivy League school’s alleged inadequate response to antisemitism on campus.
Katrina Armstrong, the acting president of Columbia University, described the administration’s worries as valid and stated that her university was collaborating with the government to resolve them. Pro-Israel counter-protests and campus demonstrations have sparked accusations of racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism.
In an announcement released Thursday, the institution claimed that its “judicial board determined findings and issued sanctions to students ranging from temporary degree revocations, expulsions, and multi-year suspensions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring.
On the Columbia University campus in New York, New York City police enter Hamilton Hall on the upper floor using a tactical vehicle. AP The university Senate chooses the judicial board’s faculty, staff, and students. Citing legal privacy concerns, the institution withheld the names of the penalized students and the number of students who received sanctions, both of which the students may contest.
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