The University Judicial Board issued expulsions, temporary degree revocations, and multi-year suspensions for students involved in the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall on Thursday, according to a Thursday email from University Life.

The email did not include information about the total number of students disciplined. During the April 30, 2024, sweep of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and Hamilton Hall, the New York Police Department arrested 109 individuals, 46 of which were charged with criminal trespassing for their involvement in the occupation of Hamilton Hall. Nearly two weeks earlier on April 18, 2024, 108 individuals were arrested during the NYPD sweep of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

“We understand that others are sharing this information publicly,” the email reads. “Thus, we are sharing this statement with the University.”

Columbia University Apartheid Divest wrote in a Thursday Instagram post that 22 Columbia students had been suspended, expelled, or had their degrees revoked as a result of pro-Palestinian protests last spring. The post read that nine Barnard and Columbia students have been expelled in total for pro-Palestinian protests.

Barnard reportedly expelled two students in February for participation in the disruption of the class History of Modern Israel, and reportedly expelled a third for participation in the occupation of Hamilton.

“The University’s extreme reaction is a sign that the administration has lost control of the narrative about student protest and can no longer credibly defend their genocidal record,” the post reads. “As history shows us, it’s only a matter of time before the University divests.”

According to the post, one of the expelled Columbia students is the president of the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers.

“Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker,” the union wrote in a Thursday post on X.

The union is set to have its first bargaining session for its upcoming contract on Friday; its current contract is set to expire in June. In the post, the union announced an “emergency rally” at the upcoming bargaining session.

“Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table,” the union wrote in its post.

“By firing SWC’s president, Columbia administration has violated labor law, giving the union grounds to file an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) against the University,” the CUAD post reads.

CUAD announced in a Thursday Instagram post a Friday walkout to Columbia’s gates on 116th and Broadway in response to the disciplinary decisions.

“This cannot go on,” the post reads. “It is our duty to disrupt. It is our duty to escalate for our people.”

A University spokesperson declined to comment on the reported expulsion of the union president, directing Spectator to the Thursday statement announcing the results of disciplinary hearings.

UAW called the expulsion an “assault on First Amendment rights” in a Thursday news release.

“The shocking move is part of a wave of crackdowns on free speech against students and workers who have spoken out and protested for peace and against the war on Gaza,” the statement reads. “As the UAW has emphasized, the assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government and Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution.”

SWC-UAW is “mobilizing a response,” according to the statement, and it calls on “all allies of the working class and Americans of good conscience to speak out and stand up against this gross injustice.”

Rules Administrator Gregory Wawro announced in a Tuesday email to the Columbia community that the University Judicial Board completed hearings for students who participated in the April 2024 “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and the occupation of Hamilton Hall. Wawro did not specify in the Tuesday email if sanctions had been levied against students.

“I am confident that the community will accept the legitimacy of the outcomes, whatever they may be, since we followed our longstanding practices and policies under the Rules,” Wawro wrote in the Tuesday email.

UJB based its decisions on a series of “investigations, hearings and deliberations and “its evaluation of the severity of behaviors at these events and prior disciplinary actions,” according to the Thursday email announcing the sanctions levied against students involved in the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall.

Jeanine D’Armiento, the University Senate executive committee chair, announced in July 2024 that the majority of disciplinary cases for the occupation of Hamilton Hall had been transferred from the Center for Student Success and Intervention to UJB.

The Center for Student Success and Intervention was established in fall 2022 to take a rehabilitative approach to discipline. The five-member UJB was created to pursue disciplinary action against students accused of breaking the Rules of University Conduct, which were created in 1968 following Columbia’s crackdown on student protests.

In a Thursday email to the Columbia community shortly after the University Life email, Wawro outlined the structure of the UJB and acknowledged an appeals process through which students can appeal their sanctions.

According to the Rules of University Conduct, an appeals board composed of three members—one of which will be a dean of a school or a division—has the power to “overturn, affirm, or revise the decision, and it may overturn, affirm or lessen the sanction.”

Appeals must be filed to the appeals board within five business days after the notice of decisions or sanctions. The appeals board must make a decision regarding the case within 10 days after notice of appeal is received.

Wawro wrote that the University formally started its disciplinary cases for students charged by law enforcement “once those law enforcement bodies had determined not to pursue further action.”

Hearings for the alumni weekend “Revolt for Rafah” encampment are expected to begin in the next few weeks, Wawro wrote in his Thursday email.

University Life will oversee the return of the suspended students, according to the Thursday email.

“Columbia is committed to enforcing the University’s Rules and Policies and improving our disciplinary processes,” the email reads.

UJB held disciplinary hearings during winter break for students who participated in the April 17, 2024, “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

University Life wrote in the Thursday email, “We will continue to work to support our community, including protecting the privacy of our students, during this challenging time and we remain steadfastly committed to our values and our mission.”