The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton enterprise college’s board despatched a letter to the board of trustees on Friday, which comes after sending a letter to embattled college President Liz Magill on Thursday calling for her to resign, in keeping with a report.
The letter, obtained by Axios, argues that 5 trustees can name for a particular assembly to vote for the elimination of Magill, who has come beneath fireplace after her congressional testimony on antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas battle. Five folks on Wharton’s board additionally function trustees.
“The Board will, of course, vote based upon each member’s beliefs and only the Board of Trustees, as the University’s fiduciaries, can determine the actions that are in the best interests of the University. However, University inaction cloaked in statements of intent and informational meetings has fostered the current climate of fear on campus and has resulted in Government inquiries, Title VI litigation, and declarations by numerous media outlets that our beloved university is ground zero for antisemitism on college campuses,” the letter from Wharton’s board states.
A Sunday assembly is scheduled for the UPenn Board of Trustees, and comes after it held an emergency assembly on Thursday. The assembly was beforehand scheduled, however Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok prolonged the size from one to 2 hours.
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Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, attends a House Education and the Workforce Committee listening to Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Lawmakers on the schooling committee grilled Magill and the leaders of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about their responses to pro-Palestinian protests and rising antisemitism on their respective campuses that erupted in wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist assaults on Israel by Hamas. (Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Following the assembly, someplace between six and eight members of the board of trustees referred to as on Magill to assume “long and hard” over whether or not she will successfully operate as president of the college.
“If the answer is you can’t [function], we need to know that, and you ought to resign,” the trustees informed Magill, in keeping with the outlet’s supply.
The trustees fell wanting explicitly calling for Magill to resign.
In addition to stress on Magill to resign, the college can be struggling financially from the remarks. Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, is withdrawing a donation price round $100 million made to assist set up a monetary innovation middle.
The letter acknowledged Stevens and Stone Ridge Asset Management “are appalled by the University’s stance on antisemitism on campus.”
Backlash continues to pour in following Tuesday’s Congressional listening to after Magill gave a non-answer to New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s query asking if “calling for the genocide of Jews violate[s] Penn’s rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?”
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University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testifies earlier than the House Education and Workforce Committee on the Rayburn House Office Building throughout a listening to to analyze antisemitism on school campuses. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment, yes,” Magill responded, later including, “It is a context-dependent decision.”
“This is unacceptable. Ms. Magill, I’m gonna give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn’s code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment? Yes or no?” Stefanik then requested.
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Harvard President Claudine Gay, left, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Sally Kornbluth hear throughout a listening to of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Magill would later stroll again her feedback in a video posted to X on Wednesday night.
“There was a moment during yesterday’s congressional hearing on antisemitism when I was asked if a call for the genocide of Jewish people on our campus would violate our policies. In that moment, I was focused on our university’s long-standing policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which says that speech alone is not punishable,” Magill stated. “I was not focused on, but I should have been, on the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate.”
Fox Business’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.