This marks the first major move by an elite American university amid increasing numbers of Gaza Solidarity encampments on college campuses throughout the US.
The university's chancellor, Gene Block, calls the strategy of protesters entering the campus in his statement “shocking and shameful” and claims that protesters who engaged in such behavior could be suspended or expelled.
A pro-Palestinian encampment erected on the campus of Tufts University "must end," the school said, calling on protesters to remove it "peacefully and voluntarily."
In the most recent update, student negotiators from the Columbia encampment conveyed that despite meetings held this week, the university had not fulfilled their main request for divestment.