Some Columbia University professors canceled in-person classes on Monday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national whom the Trump administration moved to deport over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. The cancellations—which came amid a pressure campaign from the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter—put the professors at odds with Columbia's provost, who emailed "faculty colleagues" Monday morning to issue "a reminder that faculty must meet all scheduled classes."
Less than two days after Khalil's Saturday night arrest, at least three faculty members—English professor Joseph Albernaz, philosophy lecturer Ruairidh MacLeod, and an unnamed third—emailed students to cancel courses or remove attendance requirements, emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. MacLeod ditched his "discussion requirement for today's Marx class," citing "sensitivity to the situation arising from the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil." Albernaz went as far as to give every student an "A" on an upcoming midterm scheduled for Thursday, saying he was "sickened at the news of the ICE detainment of a student." The third instructor canceled courses for the rest of the week, arguing it was "unsafe to continue teaching as usual."
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