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This is a classic move where the students will get absolutely nothing material but the admin gets everything they want.
If any of you are helping with encampments, make sure to spread the consciousness that merely meeting or planning something is not a material concession is literally in PR playbooks used by universities to pacify student movements.
SFSU did great work. They got negotiations, got amendments added to funding policies, are still negotiating for more amendments, and their camps have still been up the entire time
Hell yeah
Harvard is a $50 Billion endowment fund that happens to run a school. So Harvard divesting from Israel affiliated investments is potentially significant.
That would require actually doing so, and they won't now that the students gave up their leverage
Every single police crackdown on student protestors is 100% the fault of school administrators.
Literally all they had to do was listen to their customers, but cracking skulls was their way of defending genocide.