University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, who came under fire for her stance on anti-Semitism on campus, has resigned, according to the Ivy League school.

Magill was one of three top university presidents who were criticised after they testified at a congressional hearing on Tuesday about a rise in anti-Semitism on college campuses following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict in October, Reuters reports.

She has agreed to stay on until an interim president is appointed, Scott Bok, chair of the Philadelphia-based university’s board of trustees, said in a statement posted on the university’s website. Bok also stepped down.

“I write to share that President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania,” Bok said in the announcement released by the university. Magill will remain a tenured faculty member at the university’s law school, Bok said.

The University of Pennsylvania’s president, M. Elizabeth Magill, has resigned. — Reuters
The University of Pennsylvania’s president, M. Elizabeth Magill, has resigned. — Reuters

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