The student protests over the war in Gaza are the culmination of months of activism and covert planning. Social media and smartphones have supercharged the growing revolt.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Chris Marsicano of Davidson College in North Carolina about how higher education institutions might go about divesting from Israeli interests, as demanded by protesters.

What does a planned large-scale solar facility in western Kentucky and Wake Forest and Elon universities have in common?

Student protests at their core are really an extension of education by other means.

The central question for universities responding to protests is whether to prioritize the preservation of order or the desire of students to denounce oppression.

More than 400 demonstrators across the country have been taken into police custody since arrests at Columbia University in New York set off a wave of student activism nationwide.

The 144-year-old Los Angeles institution has not had a reputation for campus activism, but it now finds itself embroiled in controversies over the war in Gaza.

The protests that began at Columbia University have spread to other states, where students have set up encampments on campuses.

Imagine if in the wake of 9/11, pro-al-Qaeda protesters chased New Yorkers out of the city.

Endowment chiefs say divesting would set a questionable precedent, prove challenging and raise fiduciary questions.

By all means, as antisemitism spreads on campuses, please cast aspersions on “elite” (meaning expensive) higher education (higher than what?).

Pro-Palestinian protests expand at schools across the country, with more than 100 arrests at Emerson College and Emory University on Thursday.

The student protests over the war in Gaza are the culmination of months of activism and covert planning. Social media and smartphones have supercharged the growing revolt.

The president of Dillard University, a historically Black college, has relaunched its National Center for Black-Jewish Relations. But the plan has become entangled by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Flattened tents protesting UNC’s response to the Israel-Hamas war remained on the quad on Sunday.

The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem — and they deserve it.

Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.

As colleges turn to police to suppress pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some are calling for the National Guard. Experts say history should be a warning. At Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, police tased pro-Palestinian protesters and targeted them with rubber bullets. A clash between Boston law enforcement and Emerson College students turned so violent that city sanitation workers were spotted cleaning blood from the cobblestone of a campus alleyway.

Financially and academically untangling colleges from Israel is not as easy as it looks. Protesters vow they won’t let up.