Columbia University has canceled its university-wide commencement, but will continue ahead with smaller, school-wide celebrations.
it will center celebrations around pre-planned, smaller scale “Class Days” and school-wide ceremonies,"where students are honored individually alongside their peers." Columbia claims that the decision was made in consultation with student leaders.
Online, in the hours after the announcement was made, many claimed that the University had not emailed the student body to inform them of the change.one student in response to a post on X by Phillip Lewis, Deputy Editor of Huffington Post, sharing the decision.Mariam Jallow, a junior at Columbia College and the incoming president of the Columbia College Student Council, told TIME that the decision has eroded the student body's trust in university administration.
The university has been at the center of international attention in the wake of the protests and the response from Columbia’s administration and police. On the evening of April 30, the New York Police Department arrived on campus to clear the encampments and remove pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied Hamilton Hall, an administrative building on the Morningside campus, the evening prior.
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