Former Penn president Liz Magill resigned after her testimony before the committee sparked a bipartisan backlash.
Rutgers president called to testify before congressional committee probing antisemitism on college campusesPresident Jonathan Holloway is among the latest group of college presidents to be called before a congressional committee probing the handling of antisemitism on college campuses.
He will testify on May 23 before the Committee on Education & the Workforce, along with Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University and Gene Block, chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, the committee announced Thursday. Among other universities whose presidents have already testified before the committee since Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel are the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia.
Rutgers received thousands of emails expressing “frustration or dismay” following the agreement, Holloway said at a board meeting earlier this month.The Committee has a clear message for mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders: Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of your duty to your Jewish students,” U.S. Rep.
Both Northwestern and UCLA have contended with encampments on their campuses, with Northwestern striking a deal with protesters around the same time as Rutgers.At Rutgers-New Brunswick, a 43,859-student campus, the 75-tent encampment went up in late April and came down peacefully three days later after the agreement was reached.as part of the regular university process a demand that the university divest its financial holdings from any firm connected to Israel.
In the face of criticism, Holloway said he was confident in the decision, which “allowed us to maintain a safe and controlled environment, to protect Rutgers students and Rutgers property, and to assure that our students’ academic progress — taking finals and completing the semester — was not impeded.”
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