Students at a major university protest new policies - Stag Rezscore Insight

Inside the Week That Shook ColumbiaUniversity. In a Washington war room, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrestprotestingstudents. The backlash now threatens her leadership.

A group of Florida InternationalUniversitystudentsand supportersprotestcuts in federal funding and an agreement by campus police to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on the FIU campus during a day ofprotestsaround the country in support of higher education...

SomeUniversityof Michiganstudentswalked out of classes on April 4,protestingthe school's ties to Israel and the plannedpolicy, which, among other things, would prohibit disrupting speakers or performers.

Studentsfrom theUniversityof Missouri participated inprotestsin Ferguson last year; as the climate on campus became more fraught, activists from Ferguson visited and advised thestudents. Six weeks ago, I participated in a forum at Yale on the massacre in Charleston.

StudentsatAshokaUniversityprotestnewsecurity measures, including vehicle checks and a ban on cigarettes and alcohol, calling them invasive.

Theprotestattendees are not the onlyNewJersey residents concerned with immigration enforcement. According to a recent StocktonUniversitypoll, roughly two-thirds ofNewJersey voters believe that ICE has madeNewJersey communities less safe.

ColumbiaUniversityis reportedly considering capitulating to President Trump's demands — including a mask ban andamajorcrackdown on campus anti-Israelprotests— as a deadline looms to comply or risk losing some $400 million in federal funding.

The brutal repression ofstudentprotestsfrom Amsterdam to Los Angeles is exposing failings at the heart of ouruniversities, says Patrizia Nanz of the EuropeanUniversityInstitute.

But even ifuniversitiesand foreignstudentschallenging Trump’spoliciesultimately prevail in court, his recent campaign could nevertheless have a powerful deterrent effect.