President Nemat Minouche Shafik has faced an outcry from many students, faculty and outside observers for summoning New York police to dismantle a tent encampment set up on campus by protesters against Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

After a two-hour meeting on Friday, the Columbia University Senate approved a resolution that Shafik’s administration had undermined academic freedom and disregarded the privacy and due process rights of students and faculty members by calling in the police and shutting down the protest.

“The decision... has raised serious concerns about the administration’s respect for shared governance and transparency in the university decision-making process,” it said.

The senate, composed mostly of faculty members and other staff plus a few students, did not name Shafik in its resolution and avoided the harsher language of a censure.

The resolution established a task force it said would monitor the “corrective actions” the senate asked the administration to take on dealing with protests.

On the other hand, tensions flared in front of Paris’ prestigious Sciences Po university, as student protests over the war in Gaza spread further on Friday.

Riot police arrived to ease tensions after pro-Israeli protesters came to challenge pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

Some pro-Palestinian students had been occupying a university building overnight, demanding the institution condemn Israel’s actions.

Hicham is a master’s student at Sciences Po: “When we see what’s happening in the United States, and now in Australia, we keep going and we hope that it’ll take off in France too, because universities really have a role to play in what’s happening in Palestine and the genocide which is underway.”

The protest in Paris echoed similar demonstrations on U.S. campuses.

On Friday, close to 200 protesters gathered at George Washington University, a few blocks from the White House, carrying “Free Palestine” posters and chanting slogans.

Meanwhile in New York, Columbia’s embattled president Minouche Shafik has come under renewed pressure on Friday, as a university oversight committee met to address her attempt two weeks ago to clamp down on protests that have roiled the Ivy League school and spread across the country.