Professors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom.
For months, donors waged a campaign against the president and the chairman of the board. After the hearings on antisemitism, a dissident group of trustees had seen enough.
The leaders of Harvard, M.I.T. and Penn appeared to evade questions about whether students should be disciplined if they call for the genocide of Jews.
At a congressional hearing about antisemitism on campuses, Elizabeth Magill, head of the University of Pennsylvania, appeared to evade questions about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Penn’s code of conduct.