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PHILADELPHIA — University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill has resigned amid growing bipartisan backlash against her congressional committee testimony on antisemitism earlier this week and a semester marked by near-weekly protests, complaints by deep-pocketed donors, and widespread accusations of mismanagement since a controversial literary festival on campus this fall. And minutes later, Scott L. Bok, chair of the board of trustees, announced he was stepping down, too. “It has been my privilege to serve as president of this remarkable institution,” Magill said in a statement shared by Bok......

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Davidson College’s central academic building will continue to bear the name of a man who enslaved people, school officials say. The college decided to keep the Chambers building, named after Maxwell Chambers, after a lengthy examination into how the school could both acknowledge its ties to slavery while also preserving a portion of its own history. Doug Hicks, Davidson College president, said Tuesday that the school’s Board of Trustees backed a recommendation from the school’s Committee on Acknowledgment and Naming to keep the name despite apparent complications and conflict......

Student protesters at Columbia University walked out of international and public affairs classes Wednesday afternoon — including a lecture by Hillary Clinton — to stand with pro-Palestinian students who have been doxxed and harassed, and feel threatened and unsafe on campus. A couple dozen students, out of a class of hundreds, stepped out at 3 p.m. of Clinton’s class, co-taught with Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, while others left at least three other concurrent sessions. Yarhi-Milo had served in Israeli military intelligence in the 1990s. “You’re not alone, and we’re here for you,” read a call to act......

Syracuse University canceled a “teach-in” lecture by a visiting Middle East studies scholar that was scheduled for Tuesday due to safety concerns. In a message to the Syracuse community, chancellor and president Kent Syverud said the school was “not able to confidently ensure the safety of the attendees, the speaker and our whole campus community,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by NBC News. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, the founding director of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at San Francisco State University, had been scheduled to speak, the school said. ......

Cornell University’s campus Jewish life organization was under the watch of police officers late Sunday after vile, hate-filled threats of violence were made against the student group, the upstate New York university said. The school’s president, Martha Pollack, said in a message to her community that the rattling antisemitic threats were “horrendous” and that they explicitly named the location of the university’s Center for Jewish Living. She said the university had notified the FBI. “Cornell Police (CUPD) are on the scene and investigating,” Pollack wrote in her Sunday night message. “Police......

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member was killed and a suspect was taken into custody after a shooting prompted a three-hour lockdown Monday and rattled a campus one week into the new school year. The faculty member’s name was not being released pending notification of family, university leaders said during a news conference Monday evening. The suspect’s name also was not released, and police said it was too early to know a possible motive. No other injuries were reported. Students described a confusing and terrifying afternoon where they waited to evacuate and learn more informat......