The president of a US university has resigned after she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school's conduct policy. University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill faced intense criticism from the...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Julie Platt will serve as the Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees at theUniversity of Pennsylvania after Scott Bok resignedon Saturday, the university said. Platt previously served as the Vice Chair of Penn's board. "We write to share that Julie Platt, the...
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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...
1. The author cites the example of Penn's president resigning primarily to A. emphasize the severity of the backlash against the universities B. provide support for the argument that the presidents failed in their duties C. contrast the treatment of different university leaders after the hearing...
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 leaders of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University resigned following their own widely panned testimony on campus antisemitism. Months later, the president of Cornell University stepped down. “Columbia University’s President Minouche Shafik’s failed presidency was untenable,” Republica...
Similar statements were made by the other two university presidents in the hearing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sally Kornbluth and the University of Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Magill, the latter of whom also later resigned. The MIT Code of Conduct rightfully upholds “freedom from un...
NEW YORK (AP) — Three deans at Columbia University have resigned after exchanging disparaging texts during a campus discussion about Jewish life and antisemitism, the school confirmed Thursday. The resignations come a month after Columbia said it hadremoved the a...
Ferme was among a handful of finalists for the New Mexico State job after a nationwide search. One of the candidates was Arsenio Romero, who resigned last month as secretary of the New Mexico Public Education Department to pursue the NMSU president ...