Higher Ed

NYPD

NYPD Drops Charges Against Many Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators

May 22, 2024, 7:57 a.m.May 22, 2024, 10:31 a.m.

Criminal summonses against campus demonstrators appear to have been dropped in bulk over the past several weeks, though dozens of people still face more serious criminal charges for arrests inside occupied buildings.

Greg Morrisett works out of the Bloomberg Center at the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island.

Technology

Cornell Tech, Dynamo on the East River, Has Incubated More Than 100 Startups But Can It Engineer Its Own Growth?

May 20, 2024, 5:00 a.m.May 28, 2024, 10:57 a.m.

The city-seeded research campus on Roosevelt Island has been a quiet force in New York City’s tech economy yet is still little known even as students, faculty and alums play a crucial role in the booming AI marketplace.

A protester waves flags at the pro-Palestinian encampment at City College

Labor

CUNY Faculty Stage Illegal May Day Strike As Criticism Mounts Over Campus Protest Response

May 1, 2024, 4:33 p.m.May 1, 2024, 11:18 p.m.

Work stoppages are illegal for New York public servants, but 250-plus professors signed a pledge to not work on Wednesday in of students pressing demands to “divest from all companies complicit in the imperialist-zionist genocide.”

Pro-Palestinian students occupied Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, hanging banners from windows.

Higher Ed

Columbia Locks Down Campus as Students Occupy Hamilton Hall

April 30, 2024, 2:08 p.m.March 11, 2025, 8:58 p.m.

Pro-Palestinian student demonstrators blockaded themselves inside the iconic building, the site of occupations in 1968 and 1985.

Palestinian-solidarity student protesters continued to occupy part of Columbia University.

NYPD

After NYPD Crackdowns, Campus Protests for Gaza Persist at Columbia and NYU

April 23, 2024, 8:48 p.m.April 24, 2024, 10:48 a.m.

Calls also mount for Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign, with some student groups and alumni saying she hasn’t done enough to combat antisemitism.

Higher Ed

Dozens of Columbia Students at Pro-Palestinian Encampment Arrested by NYPD

April 18, 2024, 5:21 p.m.April 18, 2024, 8:26 p.m.

“I took this extraordinary step because these are extraordinary circumstances,” Columbia President Minouche Shafik said of her decision to call in police to break up the demonstration.