Columbia has taken the spotlight after twice asking the police to quell pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. Brown University chose a different path.

“We’ll see a peaceful end to the unauthorized encampment,” Brown President Christina Paxson wrote Tuesday in an open letter announcing the agreement.

Student protests across the country continue to escalate, leading to mass arrests and police action.

Doxxing and other consequences have led many student protesters on college campuses to hide their identities. That choice has been polarizing.

Police will keep a steady presence at the Ivy League school through commencement, two weeks away. Some students are annoyed and struggling to focus.

Police say some of the protesters at Columbia were chaos professionals.

The university has said more than half of those arrested or cited in demonstrations this week were not students.

Universities that have struggled to communicate free speech policies are having cops do it for them.

Or UC–Irvine. Neither one resorted to brutalizing its own students.

House Speaker Tim Moore said Roberts showed “incredible leadership” and “a lot of backbone” on campus Tuesday. But the university has faced criticism over its handling of protester arrests.

May 1 normally marks the start of students’ higher ed journeys. The FAFSA fiasco has cast a shadow over this year’s celebrations for those still waiting on aid packages. WASHINGTON, D.C. — For most college-bound high schoolers, May 1, the typical commitment deadline for most institutions, marks the end of a stressful admissions process. And on Tuesday, hundreds of local students, teachers and counselors crowded the rafters at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena to celebrate.

Some observers called the agreements, in which students scaled back or ended encampments in return for concessions, the best route forward, while others described them as a betrayal.