Fargo native Liz Magill has resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania, amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing last week.
Speaking to a U.S. House committee on antisemitism on college campuses, Magill was unable to say — under repeated questioning — that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.
The university said Saturday evening that the chair of the Ivy League school’s board of trustees, Scott Bok, also resigned, just hours after Bok announced Liz Magill’s departure as president.
Magill had been under fire from some donors and alumni this fall over the university’s handling of various perceived acts of antisemitism.
Magill had been the school president since July 2022. She is 57 years old.
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