University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill was forced to resign over the weekend amid widespread backlash resulting from her testimony on Capitol Hill last week in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. That has hardly put the issue to rest. The viral video of questioning by Rep. Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, and the resulting […]
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik celebrated the resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania in a storm over campus antisemitism, but faced criticism regarding her own support for Donald Trump, who associates with antisemites himself. Referring to Liz Magil, who quit after a stormy congressional hearing last week, and the presidents of Harvard and MIT, […]
Fallout continues for university presidents after congressional hearing on campus antisemitism – CBS News Watch CBS News Over the weekend, the University of Pennsylvania’s president, Liz Magill, resigned following backlash over her answers during a congressional hearing on antisemitism. Now, the presidents from MIT and Harvard are facing growing calls for them to also step […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York‘s governor has called on the state’s colleges and universities to swiftly address cases of antisemitism and what she described as any “calls for genocide” on campus after Ivy League presidents faced backlash for not adequately condemning threats of violence against Jewish students during congressional testimony earlier this week. In […]
Attacks against University of California, Berkeley, students wearing Israeli flags aren’t being investigated as hate crimes, said a graduate student who claimed the students were assaulted because of their Jewish identities. “Jewish students were intimidated and they were aggressively approached and their personal property was attempted to be taken and they were verbally harassed because […]
Police have warned that there are possibly “multiple victims” in a shooting reported at the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus. Officials said that the multiple victims were reported about midday Wednesday at Frank and Estella Beam Hall, also known as BEH. “We are responding to preliminary reports of an #ActiveShooter on […]
Until recently, USC professor John Strauss was known mostly for his research on the economics of developing countries, with decades of fieldwork in Indonesia and China. That changed Nov. 9, when Strauss stopped before students staging a walkout and protest calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and holding a memorial to thousands of […]
WASHINGTON — The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Tuesday that they were taking steps to combat antisemitism on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, including increasing security and providing additional counseling and mental health support. In testimony before a House committee, the university leaders […]
Claudine Gay (from left), president of Harvard University, Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, Pamela Nadell, professor of history and Jewish studies at American University, and Sally Kornbluth, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee on Tuesday. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images […]