After protests escalated – with “offensive graffiti across multiple buildings all over campus, some quite clearly both antisemitic and violent” – the school’s president is calling again for the voluntary dismantling of a Pro-Palestinian encampment on the Seattle campus.

The embattled president is facing growing dissent from faculty over her handling of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus and the involvement of police.

NEW YORK — Arts and sciences faculty at Columbia University passed a vote of no confidence in embattled college President Minouche Shafik, whose congressional testimony and handling of pro-Palestinian protests created a bitter divide on campus,

Columbia University finds itself at a similar crossroads as the Class of 1968 after canceling the upcoming university-wide graduation ceremony in response to student protests over Israel’s War in Gaza.

A group of undergraduate faculty at Columbia University declared they have no confidence in President Minouche Shafik, accusing her of violating academic freedom and students' rights in her handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

NEW YORK — Arts and Sciences faculty at Columbia University on Thursday passed a vote of no confidence in the institution’s president, Minouche Shafik — a sign of growing dissent over her controversial handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Hundreds of professors at the university weighed in on the resolution, which said the president, Nemat Shafik, had committed an “unprecedented assault on student’s rights.”

Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Thursday approved a vote of no confidence against President Nemat Shafik over her handling of the recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus.