Facilitate a meeting with the chair of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and other university officials to address questions about the endowment

Meet, along with the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to hear students’s perspectives on academic matters related to the Middle East

Retract suspensions of students participating in the encampment and expedite reinstatement proceedings once the encampment was removed (note: the protest encampment was expanded to the graduation commencement lawn, with Garber warning that repercussions would become more consequential as graduation approached. In the end, Harvard prevented 15 students from graduating.)

Meet with members of the Harvard management company regarding disclosure about investments with Israeli companies and divestment from them

Discuss the establishment of a Center for Palestine Studies at Harvard

Permit protests and gatherings at Deering Meadow (Northwestern’s traditional gathering place) through June 1, the final day of classes for the spring quarter. However, only Northwestern students, faculty and staff will be allowed in the demonstration area, unless otherwise authorized by the university

Allow the Northwestern Divestment Coalition (i.e. the encampment organizers) to leave one “aid tent” on Deering Meadow

Allow students to use (approved) devices to project or amplify sound

Advise employers not to rescind job offers for students “engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment”

Support two visiting Palestinian faculty per year for two years

Pay the cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern

Fundraise for the above two concessions “beyond this current agreement”  

Provide immediate temporary space for Middle East and North African (MENA) and Muslim students to gather

Provide and renovate a house for MENA and Muslim students as soon as possible, with the expectation that it will be completed by 2026

Engage students in a process to ensure “additional support” for Jewish and Muslim students

Include “broad input” from students on university dining services, including residential and retail vendors on campus, regarding Israeli-made products 

Provide a conduit for students to engage with the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees

Re-establish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility in the fall, which will include students, faculty and staff

Commit to answering questions from any “internal stakeholder” about specific university holdings held currently or within the last quarter to “the best of its knowledge or to the extent legally possible” within 30 days.

Accept at least 10 displaced Palestinian students to study and finish their education at Rutgers on scholarship 

Provide Palestinian and Arab students with an Arab cultural center on each of Rutgers’ campuses

Establish a “memorandum of understanding” for a long-term educational and collaboration partnership with Ramallah’s Hamas-supporting Birzeit University, in accordance with the precedent set by William Paterson University 

Use the words “Palestine” and “Palestinians” (versus the words “Middle East,” “Gaza region,” etc.) in relation to the Israel-Hamas conflict and release a statement from the Office of the President acknowledging the “ongoing genocide against Palestinians, its impact on the Palestinian community at our university, and advocating for a ceasefire.”

Hire senior administrators with “cultural competency and knowledge about Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia.”

Hire additional professors specializing in Palestine studies and Middle East studies, establish a center for Palestine studies and “establish a path” to a Middle East studies department

Display the flags of “occupied peoples — including but not limited to Palestinians, Kurds, and Kashmiris —” in all areas displaying international flags across the Rutgers campuses.

Provide “full amnesty” for all students, student groups, faculty and staff penalized for their anti-Israel protest activity

Review all complaints about existing global exchange and internship programs, and review new and future programs to ensure they comply with the university’s anti-discrimination policy 

Cease participation in programs that violate the above policy

Establish a transparent process by December 2024 for the ongoing review of complaints about violations of the above policy 

According to Los Angeles Times reporter Teresa Watanabe, UC Berkeley’s chancellor Carol Christ said she:

• Backs a ceasefire in Gaza

  
  

• Stated that support for the plight of Palestinians "should not be conflated with hatred or antisemitism."

  
  

• Intends to instruct the university to investigate whether campus investments align with the values of human rights, equality and abhorrence of war

Hold a vote by its Board of Trustees on divesting from Israel

Invite a group of five students to meet with five members of the Brown Corporation (while the latter are in town for their meeting in May)

Treat student activists’ commitment to end the encampment as “a favorable mitigating factor” in disciplinary matters

Call for a cease-fire in Gaza

Refrain from punishing students involved with the encampment

Join calls for a cease-fire in Gaza

“Facilitate access to relevant decision makers” by July

Treat student activists’ commitment to end the encampment as “a favorable mitigating factor” in disciplinary matters

To institute an academic boycott of Israel (note: Lee was subsequently put on leave by California State University chancellor Mildred Garcia)

Grant amnesty in university disciplinary measures related to the encampments

Facilitate a meeting between students and trustees or investment managers regarding investments in Israeli companies

“Prioritize review” of a military divestment proposal

Endeavor to recruit and support Palestinian students and scholars who have lost educational opportunities since Oct. 7

Support student-led fundraising efforts “around refugees” 

Promised a “timely review” of the protesters’ divestment issues, using the university’s “existing process.”

Promised that the university’s Board of Trustees would vote on divestment

Reached an agreement under which the university Board of Trustees’ investment committee will hear a divestment proposal from students in September and hold a vote

Agreed to a campus-wide statement in which President John Carmichael said he was “horrified and grief-stricken by the violence and suffering being inflicted due to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict”

Grant amnesty to students in the “immediate” encampment area 

Grant amnesty to students for violations of the uiversity’s policies regarding disruptions and chalking

Make their endowment investments in Israeli companies public

Work with the Committee for Investor Responsibility to “meet students partway” in publicizing the university’s entire investment portfolio

Discuss study abroad programs and academic and career-service partnerships through the formation of an ad hoc committee. The committee will target the Tel Shimron archaeological field school, pre-approved academic partnerships with universities in Israel and any existing career-services programs that invite recruiters from industries tied to the military-industrial complex 

Utilize the university’s existing “Scholar at Risk” program to bring displaced Palestinian scholars to campus

Review the university’s Middle Eastern Studies minor during the 2024–25 academic year for possible expansion

Direct the the College of the Environment to explore collaboration with the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library

Bring Palestinian artists to campus through non-academic initiatives

Assess student interest in the re-establishment of the Turath program house, which previously served as the focal point of Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim cultural and religious activities on campus. The Office of Residential Life committed to relaunching the house by fall 2025 if there is enough interest

Consider additional collaborations with Palestinian institutions