Are Crackdowns on College Protests the Answer to Unrest?

The crackdowns and arrests have sparked commentary and reflection on the First Amendment rights of the protesters. Are students' rights to free ...

Universities Should Protect Students' Right to Protest, End Crackdown on Peaceful Protests ... responding to student protests. They urge ...

The one lesson I learned above all else is that a disproportionate crackdown is often a protest movement's most powerful accelerant.

Even on public school property. They need the permission from the school to protest. Regardless if they are faculty and students.

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

Police crackdowns can spark additional demonstrations, as they did in the weeks following the Kent State shooting. What's more, while violating ...

Campuses closed off from the news media and the public. Police officers shoving and injuring protesters, as well as using tear gas and rubber ...

The police arrived in force at dawn on Saturday, with orders to clear "infiltrators" from the Gaza war protest camp at Northeastern ...

In many ways, the demonstration at Columbia was a standard student protest: Demonstrators were raising awareness about a problem and asking ...

Student protest is a proud democratic tradition on our college campuses. For generations, college students have engaged in protest to ...

It has been a month since student protests started at Columbia University with the establishment of a protest encampment on April 17.

Senate Democrats in tough races are calling on college and university presidents to crack down on campus protests that have spun out of ...

But other actions by law enforcement, including the clearing of protesters who had occupied Columbia's Hamilton Hall, were carried out without ...

Administrations are responding in different ways. On April 24, officers in riot gear at the University of Texas, Austin, blocked the path of ...

Let's settle that last issue right now: Of course students are allowed to protest. This country is quite literally built on protest, and we take ...

As college and university presidents face growing backlash from state and federal lawmakers for their responses to student protests against ...

The American Association of University Professors issued a statement this week condemning the wave of anti-protest measures. The policies “ ...

... protest signs featuring Nazi emblems. The current harsh response to the pro-Palestinian protests recalls the most turbulent anti-war ...

The crackdown on protesters at Columbia and elsewhere lays bare the challenge of balancing academic freedom with student safety.

We reject calls for escalation that include calling in more police, the national guard, or federal troops to remove these students from protest ...