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Jay Bernhardt, who is still in his first year as Emerson’s president, is facing the same crisis that has claimed the jobs and damaged the reputations of a growing number of college presidents across the country.

Emerson College students accused Boston police of using excessive force while clearing an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

The Emerson Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)’s “Popular University Encampment” in 2 Boylston Alley continued to its fourth day on Wednesday, with students preparing for a risk of arrests that morning. According to several SJP sources who spoke with the Beacon, “there is a risk of arrest” and “that risk grows the longer we...

The school earlier warned students that police have the right to respond.

Police arrested demonstrators at universities in Massachusetts, Texas and California as protests against the war in Gaza spread to more U.S. colleges.

In April 2024, Bonnie Comley, Founder of BroadwayHD and prominent in the arts and entrepreneurship, delivered an inspiring and insightful masterclass at Emerson’s Judee Theater.

On the first night of Passover, several local college students are demanding their school call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas following the protests at Columbia University last week.

Pro-Palestine students at Emerson, MIT, and Tufts set up tent encampments after dozens of Columbia students were arrested last week.

Inspired by protests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinians camps have been set up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson College.

Following several initiatives to advocate for more conversations about Palestine on campus, students, faculty, and staff held a discussion on Wednesday about what it means to be both Jewish and anti-Zionist. The event, which was held in the multi-purpose room at 172 Tremont, was organized by Emerson Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP)...