Columbia University Students Boo Acting President During Commencement Speech

Graduates boo Columbia’s president at commencement after a fraught year

Acting president Claire Shipman kept talking over the boos, delivering her remarks on democracy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Columbia’s President Was Booed at Graduation

Photo: Charly Triballeau/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Columbia University has spent more than a year as the epicenter of student protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza and, more recently, the target of the Trump administration’s attack on elite colleges. In light of the school acquiescing to the president’s demands in recent months and the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil by ICE, the student body had a lot to protest during graduatio…

Columbia Students Boo President Shipman at Graduation

Columbia University students boo acting president during commencement speech

NEW YORK (CBS, KYMA, KECY) - Columbia College students booed Acting President Claire Shipman during her speech at the 2025 commencement ceremony Tuesday. Footage by X user @mollikajaisingh shows students drowning out the president's words Tuesday morning with loud shouting and boos. "Good morning class of 2025," Shipman can be heard saying in the video. "I know that many of you feel some amount of frustration with me, and I know you feel it with…

Columbia Athletics Celebrates the Class of 2025 - Columbia University Athletics

NEW YORK - Columbia University and Columbia Athletics celebrated the Commencement of its 271st academic year with various ceremonies across campuses and New York City from May 19-21.