EXCLUSIVE — Some faculty members at the University of Virginia are privately and publicly splintering with the school’s president after he asked state police in riot gear to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from an unlawful encampment, deepening the divide between progressive professors and university leaders that has opened up at UVA and many other elite schools.

In a chain of emails obtained by the Washington Examiner, members of the Anthropology Department at UVA were discussing ways to express their condemnation Tuesday afternoon against President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom as the two school leaders held a virtual “town hall” to discuss the university’s response to protesters.