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Campus Protests


  • How campus protests exposed the flaws in higher education diversity initiatives

    How campus protests exposed the flaws in higher education diversity initiatives

    By Nancy A. Khalil

    Universities across the US pay lip service to diversity, equity and inclusion, while suppressing calls for Palestinian liberation.

  • What Is a “Student” Politics?

    What Is a “Student” Politics?

    By Benjamin VanWagoner

    To risk enfranchisement, suffer its penalties, apologetically—on behalf of a political sympathy with others—is revolutionary. This is the kind of action to which humanist knowledge must be bound.

  • Leaving a Mark

    Leaving a Mark

    By David Chmielewski

    I found myself constantly asking other participants their thoughts and reflections, to the point where I simply decided to sit down and record these conversations as a sort of informal oral history project.

  • Being Columbia

    Being Columbia

    By Agnese Fanizza

    This article was born as critique, but has grown into an elaboration of emotion, reflection, and reaction.

  • Reckoning With Our Collective Failure

    Reckoning With Our Collective Failure

    By Heather Olson

    We were collectively failing in our mission to help students become informed, engaged citizens.

  • Liberation, Education

    Liberation, Education

    By Sofia Rivera

    In April 2024, Sofia Rivera captured stark close-ups of scenes from the Columbia University campus, from barricaded buildings to clipped versions of the campus’s famous statues, obscured in favor of the images of protest surrounding them.

  • The Fire This Time

    The Fire This Time

    By Marcos Quinones

    I come to you with the same tears of rage, the same feelings of intense internal pain, and the same traumas that you all carry daily.

  • The class goes on a nature walk

    The class goes on a nature walk

    By B. Tsige

    This country deserves no green like this.

  • Prayers for Palestine

    Prayers for Palestine

    By Tamanna Syed

    But living is her insistence / So long live the resistance.

  • Lyrics of the Student Intifada

    Lyrics of the Student Intifada

    By Ayah Ali

    There is an elegy that echoes from the universities of Gaza to the universities of the world.

  • Two Poems

    Two Poems

    By Evan Dekens

    what is there to tie us / to what we cannot live through / cannot remember?

  • Like Trees By Water

    Like Trees By Water

    By Mason

    lock-armed and mealy mouthed atop us / the blockade begins to sing / and cross-legged / fetal below / we join

  • We Keep Us Safe

    We Keep Us Safe

    By Pedro Mármol & Noor Jurkovic

    At every step, the strength found in solidarity was instrumental in sustaining the movement.

  • A Tale of Two Graduations

    A Tale of Two Graduations

    Anonymous

    In their different ways, the People’s Graduations restored my belief in the university—not as an imprimatur of excellence or a factory of social mobility, but as a community of scholars devoted to freedom and truth.

  • From Palestine to NYC: Globalizing the Intifada

    From Palestine to NYC: Globalizing the Intifada

    By Ricardo Martin Coloma & Gonçalo Pessa Costa

    On the central platform’s mast, a fluttering Palestinian flag challenges the legitimacy of the official American one positioned a few meters above.

  • Because Grief Is Collective, Healing Is Too

    Because Grief Is Collective, Healing Is Too

    By Anonymous

    I watched news incessantly, like it was going to save me. I stopped sleeping at night.

  • When the Singing Turned to Screams

    When the Singing Turned to Screams

    By Emmett Savage

    The city had to wash the blood of students off the ground, and both it and Emerson are pretending nothing happened.

  • On Being Disruptive

    On Being Disruptive

    By Emily

    To say that the protests were not disruptive helps us look for the real reasons as to why the police were called. There are many.

  • The Campus Transformed: A Protest Archive

    The Campus Transformed: A Protest Archive

    There is no better time to revisit the accounts and reflections from the spring uprisings, in the words of participants and onlookers themselves.

  • Protest Pedagogy

    Protest Pedagogy

    The encampments could be understood as masterful examples of project-based learning in civic engagement.