Penn President Liz Magill resigns after testimony on antisemitism drew bipartisan criticism

[brooklynite]

10. UPDATE: UPenn board of trustees chair resigns following university president's departure

The chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees resigned on Saturday, just after university President Liz Magill did the same following controversial comments she made at a House hearing on antisemitism this week.

Scott Bok, who announced Magill’s resignation Saturday, said minutes later that he would also step down, citing the congressional hearing scandal.

“Today, following the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania’s President and related Board of Trustee meetings, I submitted my resignation as Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, effective immediately,” Bok said, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “While I was asked to remain in that role for the remainder of my term in order to help with the presidential transition, I concluded that, for me, now was the right time to depart.”

At the Tuesday hearing, Magill and other college leaders controversially said that it would depend on context whether comments calling for genocide of Jewish people would be considered harassment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4352000-upenn-board-of-trustees-chair-resigns-following-university-presidents-departure/