The pro-Palestinian protests on the Auraria Campus have cost the institution in damages more than twice the roughly $300,000 officials reported last spring.

The actual costs, an official confirmed Tuesday, was $668,934.

Devra Ashby, a spokesperson for the Auraria Higher Education Center, said in May that she expected the “cost will only increase over time.”

Last spring, Ashby said the damages involved destroying the sod, graffiti tagging and vandalism as well as picking up trash in the quad — including a hazmat team that handled a spill from an illegal toilet.

But included in that cost were some items that do not appear to be directly related to the encampment, such as: $18,200 for marketing expenses; $18,000 for IT services and $3,813 for the King Center, a performing arts complex on campus.

These three items total roughly $40,000.

Officials also included $18,000 for IT services to “mitigate cyber attacks,” said Dan Whitaker, a spokesperson for the Auraria Higher Education Center.

It is unclear whether there were any credible cyber threats that warranted including the costs with damages caused by the spring protests.

Campus officials declined to explain why these costs were included in the damages incurred by the encampment protesters had set up.

Other expenses included:

• $163,933 for third-party security staffing.

• $11,196 for fencing.

• $1,768 for “environmental restoration.”

• $200,000 estimated quad replacement.

• $57,343 for Auraria Campus Police overtime.

• $855 for custodial overtime.

Campus officials also reported roughly $123,000 from about 40 canceled events, Whitaker said. These events included student and public events, particularly the Pancreatic Cancer Walk, athletic events and weddings.

The campus also reported about $40,00 in lost revenue from parking, Starbucks and the King Center, a performing arts complex on campus.

At one-point last spring, more than 200 hundred protesters — many of them students — occupied the Auraria campus quad, demanding divestment from corporations that operate in Israel, a cease-fire and more.

Officials have estimated that roughly half of the protesters were students.

Police in riot gear responded by forcibly removing and arresting more than 40 protesters in front of the Tivoli Student Union in April.

Khalid Hamu, a lead organizer with Students for a Democratic Society — which has been banned from campus — called the encampment “a political tool” for getting their demands met.

“Violating policies and stuff like that is how change happened in the past,” Hamu has said.

A civil rights attorney has said about 20 students are being prosecuted for trespassing and failure to obey a lawful order. If convicted, the charges could mean up to 300 days in jail or a $999 fine, or both.

Protests erupted on college campuses across the U.S. in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that killed hundreds and prompted retaliatory strikes from Israel, which has included blocking humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

The Auraria campus is shared by the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver and has a combined enrollment of about 34,000 students.