May 23, 2024 05:15 Campus protests causing commencement changes The campus protests against the war in Gaza are forcing some colleges and universities to change their plans for commencement ceremonies. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd has more on some of the factors the schools ...
The chaotic scenes at UCLA came just hours afterNew York police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia Universityon Tuesday night, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school and arresting more than 100 people. Two law enforcement sour...
Morgan Chu has served on The UCLA Foundation Board of Governors and has been a lecturer and commencement speaker at UCLA School of Law. He received the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, in 2007. “At this important juncture for ethnic studies in American higher educat...
after earlier hearings largely focused on private, Ivy League colleges. Meantime, at Harvard's commencement Thursday, hundreds of students in graduation robes chanted “Free, Free Palestine” as they walked out of the ceremony. The school had announced on Wednesday that 13 st...
In rare instances, university officials and protest leaders struck agreements to restrict the disruption to campus life and upcoming commencement ceremonies. At Brown University in Rhode Island, administrators agreed to consider a vote to divest from Israel in October - apparently the f...