All sixteen students arrested during a clash with police at Oakwood University last month are suspended for the Spring 2008 semester, college officials said Wednesday.

The announcement came after the school's three-week internal investigation of a December 9 melee that left two city police officers injured.

"While the sixteen students under question may apply for future entrance, all appeals are subject to institutional review," university president Delbert W. Baker said during a January 2 press conference.

Administrators of Seventh-day Adventist-owned Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, say they “regret” a confrontation between students and city police on campus the evening of December 8.

Police arrested 14 students and two other people after a crowd surrounded a police car and became hostile, Huntsville Police reported in a December 10 news release.