My suspicion is that many/most of the students will leave the encampment after commencement. It might just peter out when no one is paying attention.
But if they don’t, Brown offered a path: agree to entertain a divestment pitch and commit to a trustees vote. Other schools have similarly negotiated and reached satisfactory conclusions. It doesn’t actually seem that difficult when administrators focus on engagement and deescalation rather than simply showing the students who’s boss.
Agree, it seems the outcome it determined by the composition of the student groups, there are some that will stop at nothing to protest and some that are willing to have dialogue and discussion.
This station offers video of an off-campus protest of “about 80” Bates students:
President Eisgruber played it perfectly at Princeton. Good roadmap for other schools.
I’m not sure if I would agree. He now has a very disgruntled faculty. Eisgruber called a faculty session to address their concerns about he handled student protestors, but he chose a very small venue on campus. When the line of faculty started snaking around the outside of the building to get in, he closed the doors due to “overcrowding concerns” and refused to let the majority of faculty in the session. So much for the open dialogue with faculty he claimed he valued. My colleagues down there said the faculty is quite upset with how this played out. I hope the NESCAC schools don’t follow that roadmap.
Citation? I hadn’t heard this. He has scheduled a special meeting of the faculty for next Monday.
A friend and colleague I went to graduate school with is a tenured faculty member at Princeton. They were one of the faculty in line that didn’t get in. If Eisgruber scheduled another meeting for next Monday then it’s probably in response to complaints about what happened at the first attempted faculty meeting.
ETA: The first listening session which ended because of “overcrowding concerns” was after the regularly scheduled faculty meeting last Monday.
Didn’t over 100 faculty members call for the resignation of his VP? Doesn’t sound perfectly played to me.
Yes, it’s not clear who deserves credit, as it were, here. Apparently, the students were asked politely to make room for Commencement exercises - and they did.
People, the thread is “All Things NESCAC”, and, unless I have been living in an alternate universe, Princeton is not a NESCAC college.
Pity.
I almost said something but figured someone else would. 
Here is an op-ed from the Berkshire Eagle:
Wesleyan Protesters Agree to End Encampment
The protesters have agreed to clear their camp by Monday morning. No students will face disciplinary sanctions for being in the encampment, but after the camp is cleared normal university regulations will be enforced. The protesters agreed not to disrupt Reunion and Commencement events. Individuals who refuse to comply will be suspended and face legal action.
Roth on Wesleyan – Michael S. Roth became Wesleyan University’s 16th president on July 1, 2007.
Good! Looks like the NESCAC schools have managed this well. Columbia and UCLA, take note.
(and 5, 4, 3, 2 …)
Here is the latest from the Williams Record, same good news, graduation will not be interrupted, well done NESCAC!:
Encampment ends, Board of Trustees commits to two meetings with SJP, J4J – The Williams Record
Tufts and Wesleyan received mentions in the NYT’s coverage of post-encampment commencement ceremonies:
Many encampments have since been cleared out, as several schools reached agreements with protesters to remove them, including Harvard; Rutgers; the University of California, Berkeley; and Wesleyan University.
at 9:34AM ET
Amherst gets an honorable mention in this NYT article on “selling out”:
Princeton’s senior survey results are nearly identical to The Crimson’s Senior Survey: about 38 percent of 2023 graduates who were employed took jobs in finance and consulting; adding tech and engineering, the rate is close to 60 percent, compared with 53 percent in 2016, the earliest year for which the data is available.
This isn’t solely an Ivy League phenomenon. Schools slice their data differently, but at many colleges, a large percentage of students pursue these fields. At Amherst, in 2022, 32 percent of employed undergrads went into finance and consulting, and 11 percent went into internet and software, for a total of about 43 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/business/gen-z-college-students-jobs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.FlnS.mejHOr2fzNSF&smid=url-share
Very good article. I had to chuckle about the Harvard kid who wants to go into finance because in that way he’ll have more influence on social change.
Ok, guy. Let’s see how that plays out. I’m predicting social change influencer is not likely to appear in 5 yrs time.
And I don’t criticize that choice. Whatever you want to do is fine with me. Just please don’t tell me you’re going into finance to make the world a better place. Please. It’s cringey to say the least.
Others may have a different take.
