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UConn student activists who hold protests on issues from Palestine to climate change say university officials are ignoring their demands.

A UConn spokesperson said the university does listen but said officials may not always give students the answer they want.

Approximately 300 protesters joined the University of Connecticut’s Students for Justice in Palestine at a solidarity demonstration on the evening of May 1 on Fairfield Way.

On Sunday, April 28, 2024, as light showers turned to heavy rain, 30-some-odd University of Connecticut students departed a teach-in given by faculty to throw tarps over food and various equipment

24 University of Connecticut students and one former student were arrested early Tuesday morning from an encampment in the area surrounding Dove Tower between the School of Business and Recreation Center.

According to the UConn Divest coalition, their negotiators met with the administration Monday in an attempt to talk about their demands.

Police on Tuesday morning moved in to remove pro-Palestinian protest encampments at Yale University and the University of Connecticut. Meanwhile, an encampment at Wesleyan remained on Tuesday morning,...

Students established an encampment dubbed the “UCommune" and voiced demands, largely surrounding divestment, of university administration.

At a Gaza solidarity protest that lasted through Thursday night’s freezing temperatures, University of Connecticut students were chanting Friday morning. By 9:30 a.m. on Friday approximately 125 stude...

On Thursday, April 25, University of Connecticut students gathered at 5 p.m. outside Dove Tower in between the Recreation Center and School of Business to protest university relationships with weapons manufacturers Raytheon TX, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.