The University of Minnesota announced this morning that administrators have reached an initial agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters to end the campus encampment. 

It comes after multiple meetings with student organizations including the UMN Divest Coalition “representing multiple views regarding the conflict in Palestine.”

As part of the agreement, closed buildings will be reopened at noon and the student coalition has agreed to not organize “disruptions” at final exams and commencements. 

“While we do not condone tactics that are outside of our policies, we appreciate student leaders’ willingness to engage in dialogue. I value the challenging and healthy conversations we’ve had,” interim President Jeff Ettinger said in a statement.

The agreement, which was sent to the encampment organizers last night, outlined six points of progress, including an opportunity to address the board of regents regarding divestment May 10, a meeting on accessing publicly-available information on university expenditures, amnesty from criminal charges by police and an agreement to not pursue university disciplinary action against students or employees who participated in the encampment. 

The agreement noted that administrators would meet with Jewish student leaders today, “as we aim to appreciate and support our Jewish student body as well.”

Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, announced this morning that exams and other academic activities scheduled before noon today on the College Avenue campus “have been postponed.”

The move was made “due to anticipated escalation of protest activities and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our students.” 

As the New York City Police Department raided Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on Tuesday night to arrest pro-Palestinian protesters camped inside, there was one outlet that many onlookers turned to for live updates: WKCR.

Listenership of WKCR was so high that night that its website crashed. The website was still experiencing intermittent outages as of yesterday afternoon.

The radio station is one of several student news outlets across the country — including The Columbia Daily Spectator, UCLA’s The Daily Bruin, USC’s The Daily Trojan and UT Austin’s The Daily Texan — that have become go-to sources for information about protests at college campuses. 

On Tuesday, reporters from mainstream media outlets had their access restricted by Columbia, so student journalists used their unique positions as members of the community to report on the event. Elsewhere across the U.S., journalists at national and local outlets have also said they’ve been turned away from some campuses if they didn’t have college IDs.   

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Hundreds of people have been arrested in connection with UCLA's pro-Palestinian encampment, a CHP spokesman said this morning.

It's not immediately clear how many were students, faculty or not affiliated with the campus.

Those arrested are expected to be booked at the Los Angeles county sheriff’s downtown Los Angeles jail and other facilities around the county, according to a senior law enforcement source familiar with the matter.

At least one officer was injured but it’s not clear what the injury was. It’s also not immediately clear if any of the protesters were injured, the source said. The CHP spokesman said objects, including water bottles, were thrown at officers.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said this morning that preliminary numbers indicate that more than 40% of those arrested at student protests at Columbia and CUNY were "not from the school and they were outsiders."

He made the comments on NPR's "Morning Edition" to host Michel Martin — the first time officials have shared a number following the mayor's claim yesterday that "outside agitators" were involved in the protests at Columbia.

"Just this morning what was given to me by my team was a preliminary review of the numbers, this is just the beginning process of the analyzing, and it appears as though over 40% of those who participated in Columbia and CUNY were not from the school," Adams said.

"I just had gut reaction based on my years in law enforcement, and I asked the intelligence division of the police department to look into it, do an analysis. Do we see familiar faces of people around the protests? And they came back substantiated on the Columbia grounds, and on other grounds, that there were those who were professionals who participated in training," he said.

By the time daylight dawned on Los Angeles, the UCLA encampment had ended.

What was once a mini village of tents, gazebos and signs protesting against Israel's war in Gaza was just a pile of rubble and debris — discarded tents and sleeping bags strewn across the school's Royce Quad, which had been protesters' home for more than a week.

A hard core of protesters continued to hold out against police and could be heard chanting slogans and repeated calls for the college to divest from its financial interests in Israel.

But protesters continued to be led away by police, their hands tied behind their backs.

Much of the UCLA encampment protest has been cleared of demonstrators, and the remaining protesters appear to be cornered in front of Powell Library, linked arm in arm, as of 5:15 a.m. (8:15 a.m. ET)

In front of the last standing protesters is a line of police officers in helmets with face shields and holding out batons bellowing “Move!” 

Police officers forcefully enter an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles this morning.

Almost two hours after California Highway Patrol moved into dismantle the UCLA protest encampment and arrest several people, some protesters are still defiantly standing firm, live footage from the scene shows.

They were linking arms and singing as of 5 a.m (8 a.m. ET) and some tents were still standing, although most have been taken down and thrown onto a growing pile of debris. More protesters were seen being led away with their hands tied, however.