The Columbia University said on Thursday that he had presented a series of penalties to students who occupied the Campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests.
The announcement followed a week after US President Donald Trump’s administration announced that she had canceled $ 400 million in federal scholarships and contracts in response to what was said to be a bad response from Ivy League school to anti -Semitism in campus.
Temporary President Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, called the concern of the administration by legitimate and said that the University cooperates with the Government on their resolution. Protests and pro-Israeli counterprotions at the New York Campus have outlined allegations of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism.
On Thursday, the University announced that its judicial committee “issued sanctions to students in the range of perennial suspensions, temporary recalls and expense” associated with the occupation of the Hamilton School Hall last spring.
The court committee consists of students, teachers and staff chosen by the University Senate.
The university, referring to the legal restrictions of privacy, did not publish the names of students who were disciplined, nor was it said how many students face the penalties that students can regret.
The union representing Columbia Student Workers, UAW Local 2710, said in a statement that its President Grant Miner was among the students expelled, just a day before the contract with the University began, which called the “latest union to attack the rights of the first amendment”.
The university spokesman did not comment on the Union’s statement.
Columbia was the epicenter of anti-Israeli protests that hit several American colleges’ campuses.
The demonstrations began after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 and the later Israeli attack on Gaza. Protesters demanded that university gifts be delighted with Israeli interests and that US military assistance ended Israel, among other requests.
Trump’s administration has vowed seriously suppressing what is referred to as protesters pro-hama.
Federal immigration agents over the weekend Closed Student Columbia Mahmoud KhalilThe leader of last year’s campus protests, which Trump’s administration tries to deport. The administration said his detention was the first of many he hoped to spend. Khalil’s deportation was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
