NEW YORK—Baruch College is rescheduling Monday afternoon classes and only allowing limited student access to the building where the City University of New York Board of Trustees will be meeting.
On Nov. 21, students protested inside the building lobby against tuition hikes and 15 people were arrested during a meeting. The students said the protest was a peaceful sit-in, but officers said it was a public health hazard. A planned tuition hike of $300 per year for the next five years was being proposed, and online videos show a group of students dropping books on officers and police waving batons during the arrests.
The college hopes to avoid a similar protest by limiting and delaying building access.
“These actions are being taken to ensure the safety of all students, faculty, and staff during the period surrounding the meeting of the CUNY Board of Trustees in the Newman Vertical Campus Monday afternoon,” Baruch President Mitchel Wallerstein wrote in an announcement to students and campus security.
