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How Rich Alumni Ousted Penn’s President Liz Magill
Powerful donors clashed with the Ivy League school’s leader over antisemitism on campus for weeks before her congressional testimony
Dec 11, 2023, The Wall Street Journal
At one point in early November, a truck drove around campus with a (misspelled) bright red digital sign that read, “UPenn’s leading anti-Semite: Liz Magil.”
Kucuk, the history professor, tried to think of ways to promote a civil dialogue about the events in the Middle East. But he said faculty started getting nervous after a petition circulated to fire some professors over their statements supporting Palestinians.
Kucuk resigned from the Middle East Center after he helped a left-leaning Jewish student group book a room to show a film about American Jews who become sympathetic to Palestinians and the university tried to postpone the screening for security reasons.
“It’s a silent campus,” he said. “People do not feel like they can speak freely at all.”
Wharton’s board of advisers started taking a more activist role in the drama in mid-November. The group’s membership includes top executives at Blackstone, McKinsey & Co., Moelis & Co.and Relatefd Cos. Some of its members also serve on the main board of trustees.
The agenda for a regularly scheduled board meeting Nov. 16 initially included a conversation about artificial intelligence. According to a person in attendance, Wharton Dean Erika James ticked off examples of the reputational damage the Magill saga was taking on the school: hundreds of negative media mentions; unknown impact on applications; and a 28% decline in giving that would result in $100 million in lost donations within five years.
