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News Articles: campus protests

A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, at rear, on April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.

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  • National

Harvard pledges reforms following internal reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab bias

The university's president convened two panels to study campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias last year. Harvard said it will begin implementing at least some of the reports' recommendations.

April 29, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Amir Makled is a Michigan-based attorney who was detained by federal agents when returning to the U.S. from a family vacation.

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  • National

Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents

Amir Makled sat down with All Things Considered host Juana Summers to describe his experience and what it could mean for other attorneys who are going against the wishes of the Trump administration.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Tyler Bartlam,
  • and 1 more
People dance and wave large Israeli flags during a rally against campus antisemitism at George Washington University in May 2024 in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

Trump order cracks down on antisemitism and could deport foreign student protesters

The executive order directs government agencies to use all available tools to prosecute or remove perpetrators of antisemitic harassment and violence, especially on college campuses.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
Pro-Palestinian protestors rally at Brown University in April as their delegation met with school leaders on campus in Providence, R.I.

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  • National

Brown says no to pro-Palestinian students' demands for divestment

Supporters of divestment ended their encampment last spring in exchange for a promise that their proposal for divestment would get a vote from the board this fall.

October 10, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
President Joe Biden speaks in support of changing the Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, at Atlanta University Center Consortium, on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Jan. 11, 2022, in Atlanta. Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement.

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  • News

Biden's upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture

President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement. The announcement of the speech last month triggered peaceful protests and calls for the university administration to cancel over Biden's handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.

May 16, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Students and protesters raise peace signs in the air while listening to speakers at the encampment for Palestine on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at the University of Washington Quad in Seattle. Large crowds amassed ahead of a speech by Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at the HUB on UW's campus.

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  • News

Photos: Campus protests continue, police make arrests and clear encampments

Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.

May 11, 2024
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By:
  • Megan Farmer,
  • Matt Bowler,
  • and 2 more
Police face off with pro-Palestinian students after dismantling part of the encampment barricade on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, early on May 2.

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  • Law

In NYC and LA, police response to campus protests draws sharp criticism

Students say they suffered broken bones, concussions and other injuries from allegedly aggressive police action breaking up pro-Palestinian protests last week.

May 08, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Squares mark a lawn where tents once stood at Brown University in Providence, R.I. It's one of several schools where administrators have struck deals with student protesters.

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  • Education

What we can learn from 4 schools that have reached agreements with Gaza protesters

Northwestern, Brown, Rutgers and University of Minnesota are among the handful of schools that have reached agreements with student protesters. Here's how they did it, and what could come next.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Law enforcement form a circle around the encampment of pro-Palestinian protestors on April 29, at the University of Texas at Austin.

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  • National

Photos: Campus protests continue nationwide as some turned violent

Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.

May 06, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Ohio National Guard members towards students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. They fired into the crowd, killing four students and injuring nine.

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  • History

She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who now teaches there reflects on that day and offers lessons for protesters now.

May 05, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Pro-Palestinian students protest outside the Department for Education on March 22 in London. The students called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and for an end to links between U.K. universities and Israel.

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  • World

Campus protests over the war in Gaza have gone international

Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement.

May 03, 2024
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  • Willem Marx
Counterprotesters try to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the University of California, Los Angeles campus in the early hours of Wednesday.

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  • National

Violence erupts at UCLA as protests over Israel's war in Gaza escalate across the U.S.

Members of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups in Los Angeles clashed, with reports of fireworks and pepper spray use. Elsewhere, universities are tearing down encampments and arresting students.

May 01, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Columbia University faculty and staff gather on the campus in solidarity with student protesters on Monday.

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  • Education

How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words

The protests sweeping college campuses don't just involve students. Professors are increasingly pushing back against university administrations they see as infringing on students' free speech rights.

May 01, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Dozens of tents are seen on a lawn inside the Columbia University Campus after students refused to take down the encampment by the 2 p.m. EDT deadline given to students protesting by Columbia President Minouche Shafik.

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  • National

As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too

Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.

April 29, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • Brian Mann,
  • and 1 more
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at an encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York City on April 25, 2024.

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  • National

In Columbia University's protests of 1968 and 2024, what's similar — and different

There are parallels between the two high-profile events, most starkly the proliferation of similar protests around the country. But key differences set them apart.

April 29, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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