University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill affirms before a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing entitled “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., on Dec. 5, 2023.
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University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned on Saturday after getting criticism for her testament at a congressional hearing on school antisemitism where she hadahardtime to response a concern about whether calling for the genocide of Jews breached the college’s guidelines.
UPenn Board of Trustees Chairman Scott Bok likewise stated he would action down following the statement of Magill’s resignation.
Magill chose to “voluntarily” tender her resignation however will stay a tenured professors member at the university’s law school, according to a UPenn declaration.
Magill and Penn’s Board of Trustees did not rightaway respond to CNBC’s demand for remark.
Magill hasactually dealtwith installing pressure to resign over the past coupleof days after she fluctuated on whether calls for the genocide of Jews would breach Penn’s code of conduct at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing.
Over 70 legislators signed a bipartisan letter on Friday calling for the resignation of Magill, along with Harvard University President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth, who likewise wenttopieces on the concern.
“One down. Two to go,” stated House Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, the congressmember who presented the concern at Tuesday’s hearing. “This is just the really starting of resolving the prevalent rot of antisemitism that hasactually ruined the most ‘p