Universities threatened with massive federal funding cuts, research programmes facing closure, and faculty and staff facing possible detention and deportation for political views 鈥� US higher education is being squeezed hard by Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency.
The US government will review $9 billion of funding for Harvard University over alleged anti-Semitism on campus, authorities said Monday, after it cut millions from Columbia University, which has also seen fierce pro-Palestinian student protests.
I WAS not surprised when Columbia University鈥檚 interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to 鈥榬emove individuals from campus and/or arrest them when...
Immigration officers have arrested a leader of the protests at Columbia University against Israel鈥檚 war in Gaza, authorities said Sunday, after US president Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.
More than 200 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered Tuesday in front of Columbia University in New York to demonstrate against former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, who was at the campus for a speaking engagement...
ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it 鈥楬ind鈥檚 Hall鈥�, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building鈥檚 entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...
I AM sitting on a fire escape across the street from Columbia University with three organisers of the Columbia University Gaza protest. It is night. New York City Police, stationed inside and outside the gates of the campus, have placed the campus on lockdown...
HELICOPTERS have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway...
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University鈥檚 campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.......
Demonstrators at Columbia University barricaded themselves inside a campus building early on Tuesday, escalating a standoff with school officials as pro-Palestinian protests upend...
Demonstrators at Columbia University barricaded themselves inside a campus building early Tuesday, escalating a standoff with school officials as pro-Palestinian protests upend campuses across the United States.
Student demonstrators at Columbia University, the epicentre of pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted at US colleges, said Monday they would not budge until the school met their demands, defying an ultimatum to disperse or face suspension.
Police detained about 100 people as they moved in to clear an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters in response to the use of anti-Semitic slurs, the school said.
Columbia University backed off late Thursday from an overnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon an encampment there as more college campuses in the United States sought to prevent occupations from taking hold...
Tensions flared between pro-Palestinian student protesters and school administrators at several US universities Monday, as in-person classes were cancelled and demonstrators arrested.
Police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian student protesters at New York鈥檚 Columbia University on Thursday, a day after the president of the prestigious school was grilled in Congress over accusations of anti-Semitism...