Elizabeth McGill will become a visiting senior scholar at Harvard University in the fall 2024 semester after her tumultuous resignation from her post as president of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in December.
McGill resigned from the University of Pennsylvania shortly after receiving strong backlash when she refused to say at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing in December whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated university policy. Her new post is at the Center for Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. According to on her latest resume.
The former University of Pennsylvania president will also serve as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, according to his resume. Both positions are temporary and unpaid. According to To the Daily Pennsylvanian.
The Committee on Education and Labor launched an investigation into anti-Semitism at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard after both McGill and Claudine Gay, Harvard's former president (who has since resigned), were called to testify. The hearings came in the wake of growing concerns about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents on several college campuses following the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside Columbia University in New York City on April 18, 2024. Police officers dispersed a pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus on April 18, a day after university officials testified before Congress about anti-Semitism. Columbia University leaders defended the prestigious New York university's efforts to combat anti-Semitism on campus during a fiery congressional hearing on April 17. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
“Committee members are deeply concerned by their leadership and their failure to take steps to provide Jewish students with the safe learning environment required by law,” committee chair Virginia Foxx said of both presidents in a statement after the hearing. McGill reportedly refused to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization until October 2023, when it came under pressure from a major donor to the university.
McGill remains a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School but no longer teaches classes, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. (Related: Elite university vandalized with pro-Palestinian graffiti on first day of classes)
McGill, Harvard University and the London School of Economics did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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