‘We really felt inspired’

A growing number of protests have also been launched on campuses in the United Kingdom.

“I think we felt really inspired seeing Columbia and just all the universities cropping up with the encampments,” Ella Ward, a 21-year-old environmental science student at the University of Leeds in northern England, said in a phone interview Friday.

Around 50 students at Leeds launched their own encampment Wednesday, according to Ward, a representative of Youth Demand, a…