Liebowitz joins a wave of university presidents to exit their positions at least in part as a result of the pro-Palestinian protests that swept campuses last year. The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University exited following criticism of their congressional testimony on cam...
Gay is now the second university president who testified at the hearing to resign. University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned just days after her testimony. In the last month, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce opened acongressional investigationinto antisemitism at Harvar...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – University of Pennsylvania students and staff protested Thursday outside the office of President Liz Magill, who is facing an uproar over her comments at a congressional hearing on antisemitism earlier this week. Magill is under fire for her answers dur...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Penn State University is asking some of its employees from branch campuses to voluntarily resign.The university is offering a voluntary separation incentive to full-time faculty, staff, and administrators.It'll give those considering retirement or who would like to leave ...
Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC.Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Donors are also joining the call to remove the presidents -- and threate...
Since then, Stefanik has led the charge among Republicans, pushing for the resignation of the university leaders. The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard have already resigned. And last week, Columbia's president became the latest to testify before Congress. ...
The resignations come a month after Columbia said it hadremoved the administratorsfrom their positions and would keep them on leave indefinitely. University President Minouche Shafik said in a July 8 letter to the school community that the messages were unprofessional...
Pollack’s announcement follows the resignations in recent months of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Both stepped down in the wake of a congressional hearing in December where they declined to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violates school rules. ...
Shaun Harper, executive director for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, said the black football players "understood that they have the power." "That is so rare," said Harper, who authored a 2013 study on black male student-athletes and racial inequit...
JOHNSON, Vt. (AP) — The president of Northern Vermont University has announced that she resigning in mid-August.