The university said in a campus-wide email that a judicial board brought a range of sanctions against students who occupied Hamilton Hall last spring.
Columbia did not provide a breakdown of how many students were expelled, were suspended or had their degrees revoked, but it said the outcomes were based on an “evaluation of the severity of behaviors.”
The culmination of the monthslong investigative process comes in the wake of the arrest of a key protest organizer, Mahmoud Khalil, by federal immigration authorities last Saturday. President Donald Trump has said the arrest would be the “first of many” such detentions. Khalil is from Syria and holds a green card. Trump authorities say his anti-Israel activities are sufficient to justify his deportation. Khalil is currently being held in an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
At the same time, the Trump administration has stripped the university of more than $400 million in federal funds over a failure to combat campus antisemitism. Congressional Republicans have pointed specifically to a failure to discipline students involved in the Hamilton Hall seizure as proof of inaction by the university.
