When University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill was tapped for the post just 18 months ago, she was heralded as the “clear consensus” to lead the Ivy League university.
Today that consensus is nowhere to be found. In trying to placate everyone on the contentious issues of antisemitism, Palestinian rights, free speech and academic freedom, she has angered high-profile and deep-pocketed donors and trustees, many of whom resigned and pulled their funding in recent days. It’s quite a change in standing for the woman with the gold-plated resume who was tapped last year to be the 27th leader of the nearly 300-year old school once led by Benjamin Franklin.
Mark Rowan, CEO of private equity giant Apollo Global Management, is among those calling for the ouster of both Magill and Board of Trustees chairman Scott Bok over the Palestine Writes festival. On September 12, ahead of the Palestine Writes festival and weeks before the outbreak of war in Israel and Gaza, Magill and other top university administrators issued a statement acknowledging the accusations of antisemitism being made against some of the speakers at the event.
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