College campus protests

Extracted Attributes

• US Arrests

  Over 3,100 protesters (including faculty) on over 60 campuses

• Primary Cause

  Gaza War, Gaza genocide, October 7th attacks by Hamas

• Concerns Raised

  Antisemitism

• Primary Demands

  Divestment from Israel, financial transparency, ending partnerships with Israeli institutions, amnesty for protesters

• Counter-Protests

  Zionist and right-wing organizations

• Geographic Scope

  United States, Europe, Australia, Canada

• Activist Nickname

  "Student intifada"

• US Public Support

  28–40%

• University Closures

  Columbia University, Cal Poly Humboldt, University of Amsterdam

• US Public Opposition

  42–47%

• University Responses

  Suspensions, expulsions, evictions, police intervention, negotiations, cutting ties with Israeli entities

• Academic Worker Strikes

  Campuses in California

• Nonviolent Protest Rate

  97%

• Encampments (Spring 2024)

  Approximately 121 at 117 universities

• Graduation Ceremony Impact

  Some U.S. university graduation ceremonies cancelled

• US Student Support (May 2024)

  45%

• US Student Opposition (May 2024)

  24%

• US Student Participation (May 2024)

  8% of college students

• Encampment Resolution Rate (Forcibly Disbanded)

  Approximately 50%

• Encampment Resolution Rate (University Agreement)

  18%

Timeline

• Hamas attacks in Israel, leading to the Gaza War, which became a primary cause for the subsequent college campus protests. (Source: Related Documents, Wikipedia)

  2023-10-07

• Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses escalated, beginning after mass arrests at Columbia University, spreading across the United States and globally. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  2024-04

• Protests spread across Europe, Australia, and Canada. An estimated 8% of U.S. college students had participated in the protests. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  2024-05

• The AAUP condemned a wave of administrative policies enacted by colleges and universities, intended to crack down on peaceful campus protest. (Source: Web Search Results (AAUP))

  2024-08

• College students set up approximately 121 protest encampments at 117 universities, primarily demanding divestment from Israel and disclosure of financial ties. (Source: Web Search Results (bestcolleges.com))

  Spring 2024

2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses

Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wider Gaza war protests. The escalation, nicknamed by activists the "student intifada", began on April 18 after mass arrests at the Columbia University campus occupation, led by anti-Zionist groups, in which protesters demanded the university's disinvestment from Israel over the Gaza genocide. Over 3,100 protesters were arrested in the U.S., including faculty members and professors, on over 60 campuses. Protests spread across Europe in May with mass arrests in the Netherlands, 20 encampments established in the United Kingdom, and across universities in Australia and Canada. The different protests' varying demands included severing financial ties with Israel, transparency about financial ties, ending partnerships with Israeli institutions, and amnesty for protesters. Universities suspended and expelled student protesters, in some cases evicting them from campus housing. Many universities relied on police to forcibly disband encampments and end occupations of buildings, several made agreements with protesters for encampments to be dismantled, and others cut ties with Israeli institutions or companies involved with Israel and its occupied territories. The campus occupations also resulted in the closure of Columbia University, Cal Poly Humboldt, and the University of Amsterdam; rolling strikes by academic workers on campuses in California, and the cancellation of some U.S. university graduation ceremonies. Hundreds of groups expressed support for the protests, and the police response in the U.S. was criticised. Supporters of Israel and some Jewish students raised concerns about antisemitic incidents at or around the protests, prompting condemnations of the protests by international leaders. Students and faculty members who participated in the protests, many of whom are Jewish, said the protests were not antisemitic. In May 2024, it was estimated that 8% of U.S. college students had participated in the protests, with 45% supporting them and 24% opposed. 97% of the protests remained nonviolent and 28–40% of Americans supported the protests with 42–47% opposed. The protests were compared to the anti-Vietnam and 1968 protests, politically criticized by a wide range of mainstream U.S. Republican and Democratic politicians, and frequently counter-protested by Zionist and right-wing organizations.

Web Search Results

• Student Activism in College: A History of Campus Protests

  For example, recent campus activism has focused on institutional policies and administrative leadership. In 2012, students at Purdue University protested after the board of trustees named Republican Governor Mitch Daniels president. Two years later, Florida State University students protested the appointment of Republican politician John Thrasher as their school president. [...] During the spring 2024 academic term, college students set up roughly 121 protest encampments at 117 universities. Student protestors primarily asked their institutions to divest from companies that support Israel and disclose financial ties to the country. Image of Netflix screen showing HillmanTok content Around 18% of these encampments ended with the university agreeing to at least some of the protesting students’ demands. Still, about half were forcibly disbanded without any resolution. [...] Fifty years later, Texas passed a law allowing concealed carry on college campuses. In response, a group of student activists rallied against the law in a protest known as Cocks Not Glocks. While state law permitted guns on campus, it banned sex toys — and campus protests pointed out the absurdity of this contradiction. A large crowd of students holding signs protesting against gun violence outside New York University in 2018.

• Campus Protests - AAUP

  Where Do We Go from Here? By Malick W. Ghachem. Academe,Fall 2024. In the wake of the crackdown on last spring's student protests, colleges and universities must find a way to resist the pressures pushing them in the direction of discipline, policing, and restrictions on political expression. A series of posts from Academe Blog,organized by Annelise Orleck, that focus on recent crackdowns on protests at US college and university campuses against Israel's war on Gaza: [...] AAUP Condemns Wave of Administrative Policies Intended to Crack Down on Peaceful Campus Protest. August 2024. As an apparent reaction to student protests since last October, a number of college and university administrations have hastily enacted overly restrictive policies dealing with the rights to assemble and protest on campus. These policies, which go beyond reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions, impose severe limits on speech and assembly that discourage or shut down freedom of [...] The AAUP defends the right to free speech, expression of political convictions, and peaceful protest on university campuses. Our colleges and universities are places of inquiry, and debate. Even when campus constituents disagree, the goal should be to foster communication, learning, and understanding. The critical evaluation of different points of view and the questioning of even the most deeply held beliefs are essential to education. In a democratic society based on the fundamental value of

• [PDF] Politics, Identity, and College Protest: Then and Now

  as the most popular protest issue. College campuses found themselves suddenly entrenched in a social, political, and cultural revolution that caused students to begin to question their own identities. Minority students struggled to find faculty of color mentors on campus during this time period. In 1968–1969, black university faculty, which constituted the largest of the minority groups, represented only 2.2 percent of the professoriate in all two- and four-year colleges. Thus, in 1968, what [...] participat-ing? Given that protest is less the norm and more the exception today, what can be said about the topics that attract protest then and now? It is a rainy Saturday morning in 1968. Across the country, students on college campuses are rising to get on buses, make signs, and organize for protest. Targets of protest include the Vietnam War and national poli-cies of conscription for all men of college age, student voice and rights in institutional governance, and the push for increased [...] have more tangi-ble outcomes to their success in increasing awareness. Such incremental successes could have spurred further smaller wins that eventually contribute to signifi cant change. This examination of campus protest over time provides educators with a number of recommendations to improve student learning and development. Student aff airs administrators and faculty advising students who want to become involved in protest are in an enviable position. They have students who are engaged and

• The history of student movements and how campus protests ... - Vox

  Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Nicole Narea covered politics at Vox. She first joined Vox in 2019, and her work has also appeared in Politico, Washington Monthly, and the New Republic. Protests against the war in Gaza have spread to college campuses across the country in the days since students at Columbia University were arrested last week, evoking images of historical student protests that were met with similar backlash. [...] Skip to main content The homepage The homepage Navigation Drawer Login Sign Up Become a Member Politics # How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history Campus protests for Gaza may be the biggest of the 21st century. by Nicole Narea Updated George Washington University students camp out on campus to demand that their university divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on April 25, 2024, in Washington, DC. [...] Recent protests have not yet reached the scale of the major student protests of the late 1960s against the Vietnam War or the 1980s against South African apartheid. But on campus, they may be “the largest student movement so far” of the 21st century, said Robert Cohen, a professor of social studies and history at New York University who has studied student activism. In recent decades, there were mass protests against the Iraq War, as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and after the

• American Student Protest Movements, Then and Now

  In this respect, the 1960s and beyond point to the essential role of activism at the local level that was sustained for years and decades, combined with national events, to achieve policy advances on racial, climate, and gender justice. Student-led protests on college campuses were at the heart of activism that started these gains. But links with other local activism—in neighborhoods, places of worship, and other gathering places where community members knew and trusted one another—was also