In the week since Columbia University started cracking down on pro-Palestinian protesters occupying a lawn on its campus, protests and encampments have sprung up at other colleges and universities across the country. Police interventions on several campuses have led to more than 400 arrests so far.

Student protests against the war in Gaza and against their schools’ financial and academic ties to Israel and to weapons manufacturers have intensified since Columbia initially cleared the encampment on April 18. Scores of people have been arrested in recent days at Emerson College, the University of Southern California and the University of Texas at Austin.

Here is where encampments and protests have been reported over the last week by local news, student newspapers, social media posts and others. The New York Times has not been able to independently verify every report.

  • Columbia University in Manhattan: New York City police officers arrested 108 demonstrators on April 18. Administrators set a deadline of midnight on Friday for protesters to dismantle their encampment and disband.

  • Emory University in Atlanta: Several dozen protesters set up tents on a campus lawn on Thursday The Emory Police Department ordered the group to leave and contacted the Atlanta police and the Georgia State Patrol for assistance. A university spokeswoman said that protesters were “attempting to disrupt our university” and that the university “does not tolerate vandalism or other criminal activity on our campus.” Demonstrators accused the police of using pepper spray or tear gas. Emory did not immediately comment on the claims.

  • University of Southern California in Los Angeles: After students set up an encampment on Wednesday, Los Angeles police officers ordered them to disperse and arrested 93 people.

  • Emerson College in Boston: Students pitched tents on Sunday evening, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Berkeley Beacon. On Wednesday night, the Boston police arrested 108 people and cleared out the encampment.

  • University of Texas at Austin: Students were protesting on Wednesday, and dozens of police officers, many of them in riot gear and some of them on horseback, arrested 57 people after they refused to disperse, according to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.

  • Princeton University in New Jersey: Students started to pitch tents on Wednesday. On Thursday, university officials said they had sent the protesters repeated warnings to clear the area, and two graduate students were arrested. The officials said that the tents were voluntarily taken down afterward.

  • California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata: Dozens of protesters were occupying an academic and administrative building on Wednesday morning, university officials said. The campus on the Pacific Coast in Northern California has remained closed since Monday, after an attempt by the police to remove the protesters from the building turned violent, leading to three arrests.

  • University of Minnesota in Twin Cities: Nine people were taken into custody after they erected an encampment. The Associated Press reported that Representative Ilhan Omar attended the protest on University of Minnesota’s campus on Tuesday. The encampment was cleared Wednesday morning, but it appeared to have returned on Thursday.

  • Ohio State University in Columbus: Two students were arrested on Tuesday, according to university officials, and charged with trespassing during an on-campus demonstration. Officials said that the protest had since dispersed. On Thursday morning, student organizers posted on social media that they had formed an encampment.

  • Washington University in St. Louis: The police disbanded a protest and encampment on campus on Wednesday, according to the school’s newspaper.

  • New York University in Manhattan: The New York Police Department made dozens of arrests late Monday after students occupied a plaza on campus.

  • Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: Hundreds of people have come out to protest since last week. On Monday, the police arrested more than 40 people.

  • Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.: Students set up an encampment on Wednesday after the school closed Harvard Yard for the week. A pro-Palestinian group, the Harvard Palestinian Solidarity Committee, announced earlier in the week on social media that it had been suspended.

  • Brown University in Providence, R.I.: About 90 students set up an encampment Wednesday morning and said they would stay until they were forced to leave. The protest violated university policy, officials said in a statement, adding that the demonstrators had been informed they would face “conduct proceedings.”

  • University of California, Los Angeles: On Thursday morning, there were around 30 tents pitched on campus.

  • Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.: A coalition of students groups announced on Thursday morning that students had gathered before dawn to create a “liberated zone” on the campus.

  • Florida State University in Tallahassee: On Thursday morning, students began forming an encampment on campus.

  • City College of New York in New York City: Videos on Thursday showed students erecting a “Gaza solidarity encampment.”

  • George Washington University in Washington: Nearly 70 students from George Washington University, along with students from nearby Georgetown University, established an encampment on Thursday.

  • Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.: Students began setting up an encampment on campus on Thursday morning.

  • Michigan State University in East Lansing: Around 35 students set up an encampment with about 18 tents on Thursday morning, according to the school’s student newspaper, The State News.

  • University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.: Students set up an encampment on the school’s River Campus on Tuesday, according to local news.

  • Tufts University in Medford, Mass.: About a dozen tents had been set up on the university’s academic quad by Wednesday morning. The Tufts encampment was not fenced off or surrounded by police officers or security personnel. A protester said he was unaware of any contact between protesters and the administration.

  • University of Delaware in Newark: Around 300 students and faculty members protested the in Gaza on Wednesday, according to local news outlets. An encampment was also set up.

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.: Students set up an encampment earlier this week.

  • The New School in Manhattan: Protesters set up tents inside a school lobby, and two dozen students formed a picket line on Tuesday.

  • The University of California, Berkeley: Students have set up an encampment, according to local news reports.

  • University of Michigan in Ann Arbor: About 40 students set up an encampment on Monday morning, according to the school newspaper, The Michigan Daily.

  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte: An encampment was set up earlier this week, according to the school’s student newspaper, The Niner Times.

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Students set up an encampment on campus shortly after the Columbia students were arrested last week.

  • Rice University in Houston: Members of the Rice chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine formed what they called a “liberated zone” on campus on Tuesday, according to the school’s student newspaper. Student organizers posted videos and photos on Wednesday night showing that tents were still pitched there.

  • University of Pittsburgh: Videos posted online on Wednesday showed an encampment and tents pitched on the school’s campus.

  • University of Florida in Gainesville: Students held a protest on Wednesday, calling for the university to disclose its investments and divest from companies associated with the Israeli government.

  • University of Maryland in College Park: More than 60 protesters took part in a sit-in on Monday, according to the school newspaper, The Diamondback.

  • American University in Washington: Hundreds of students rallied and marched to the school president’s office building, according to The Washington Post.

  • University of Texas at Dallas: Dozens of students staged a sit-in on Tuesday near the offices of the university’s president, urging the school to divest from companies with connections to the war. But the gathering was short-lived: The students dispersed after saying they had been promised a meeting with the president of the university, according to video posted by The Dallas Morning News.

  • University of Texas at San Antonio: A group of about 200 students marched on campus on Wednesday.

  • University of New Mexico in Albuquerque: Dozens of students, alumni and community members gathered to protest this week.

  • University of Texas at Arlington: The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the university announced a walkout on Wednesday.

  • University of Southern Maine in Portland: A group of about 30 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on Wednesday, according to The Portland Press Herald.

Jonathan Wolfe, Matthew Eadie, Jenna Russell, Edgar Sandoval, J. David Goodman, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Jill Cowan, Colbi Edmonds, Halina Bennet and Johnna Margalotti contributed reporting.



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