{"id":360,"date":"2025-05-15T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:18:41","slug":"mills-booed-again-as-graduates-walk-out-at-2025-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/mills-booed-again-as-graduates-walk-out-at-2025-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills booed again as graduates walk out at 2025 commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2025\/05\/15\/nyu-walkout-commencement\/\" title=\"Mills booed again as graduates walk out at 2025 commencement\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/761A9705-1200x800-1.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of graduates booed and some wearing keffiyehs walked out of Yankee Stadium during NYU President Linda Mills\u2019 commencement address on Thursday, marking the second year in a row that students left the arena in protest of NYU\u2019s continued crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech amid a federal attack on higher education.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mills, whose speech focused on a research-oriented review of happiness, said that its \u201cbest predictor\u201d is \u201chaving close relationships.\u201d She did not directly mention President Donald Trump\u2019s onslaught against U.S. colleges, which in the last few months have included cuts to federal funding, threats against student visa holders and the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHere at NYU, you discovered your found family \u2014 those who support you and lift you up in return,\u201d Mills said. \u201cYour graduation today marks not the end of these relationships. Instead, it\u2019s your first true test of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days ago, Mills sent an email to the NYU community congratulating its class of 2025 and encouraging them to build and maintain relationships beyond their time at the university. She did not address any developments affecting higher education in her email.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NYU is currently on a list of 10 schools facing pushback from the Trump administration for its response to complaints alleging antisemitic harassment on college campuses, and is named among 52 schools to be investigated for diversity-related programming. There has not been additional information regarding specific probes into NYU since the investigations were announced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the last few weeks, an undisclosed number of international students at NYU faced changes to their immigration status as Trump cracked down on noncitizens at universities across the country. All students affected by the federal government\u2019s immigration orders had their legal statuses reactivated three weeks ago. Mills has not publicly addressed the changes to NYU policies in the wake of Trump\u2019s executive orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Contact Yezen Saadah at ysaadah@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This story <a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2025\/05\/15\/nyu-walkout-commencement\/\">Mills booed again as graduates walk out at 2025 commencement<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\">Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of graduates booed and some wearing keffiyehs walked out of Yankee Stadium during NYU&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectporchswing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}