Overview

• On July 22, Columbia’s University Judicial Board issued final sanctions against more than 70 students for a May Butler Library sit-in and a spring 2024 alumni weekend encampment
• Sanctions include probation, suspensions of one to three years, degree revocations for recent graduates and full expulsions, with roughly 80 percent receiving suspensions or expulsions
• The university restructured its judicial review process and adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism at the Trump administration’s request
• Columbia is actively negotiating with President Trump’s administration to reinstate approximately $400 million in research funding frozen over campus antisemitism concerns
• Pro-Palestinian student groups denounced the penalties as excessive and politically motivated, warning they threaten free speech and campus dissent