Lawmakers press Harvard, MIT, Penn boards to remove leaders
Bianca Quilantan | 08 December 2023 | Politico
More than 70 lawmakers are calling on the leaders of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania to resign.
In a letter, led by Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), lawmakers urged the institutions’ governing board members to immediately remove Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Penn President Liz Magill from their posts. They also want the boards to provide an action plan to ensure the safety of Jewish and Israeli students on campus.
“Anything less than these steps will be seen as your endorsement of what Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth said to Congress and an act of complicity in their antisemitic posture,” they wrote. “The world is watching — you can stand with your Jewish students and faculty, or you can choose the side of dangerous antisemitism.”
Two other Democrats joined the letter in addition to Moskowitz: Reps. Joe Courtney of Connecticut and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey.