Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett wrote to students on Wednesday evening about Tuesday’s New York Police Department sweep of occupied Hamilton Hall.

All final exams, assessments, and other “academic activities on the Morningside Heights campus” will be fully remote for the rest of the semester following the New York Police Department’s Tuesday evening sweep of occupied Hamilton Hall and the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” University Provost Angela Olinto wrote in a Wednesday email to the Columbia community.

University President Minouche Shafik requested police presence on Columbia’s campus through at least May 17 in a Tuesday letter to the New York Police Department in which she authorized Tuesday’s police sweep of occupied Hamilton Hall and the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

Columbia administrators and faculty members have released a number of academic updates and accommodations regarding courses, finals, and final grades as students approach their last day of classes on Monday, and the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” nears its second week.

Khymani James, CC ’25, a Columbia University Apartheid Divest member, was banned from campus Friday evening, a University spokesperson wrote in a statement to Spectator.

House Speaker Mike Johnson called on University President Minouche Shafik to resign while on the Hugh Hewitt show Wednesday morning and said that Shafik and her administration “cannot even guarantee the safety of Jewish students.”

More than 3,000 Columbia faculty, alumni, staff, students, parents, and “concerned neighbors” have signed a letter requesting that the University uphold campus rules and regulations, “strictly enforce” ID-only access to campus, and “protect free speech rights while maintaining viewpoint neutrality,” as a result of “increasingly dangerous circumstances.”