Elizabeth Magill has resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania, days after her testimony at a Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism drew a widespread rebuke and focused international attention on the failings of America’s most elite universities. Magill offered her resignation on Saturday, a day before the university’s board was to convene for an emergency meeting to discuss her position. She will remain a faculty member at Penn Carey Law, the university’s law school, and continue as interim president until a replacement is announced.

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 was held on campus earlier in the fall.

And minutes later, Scott L. Bok, chair of the board of trustees, announced that he was stepping down, too.

Days after University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill’s much maligned remarks at a congressional hearing on antisemitism cost the Ivy League school a $100 million donation, the board of Penn’s Wharton school of business is calling on Magill to step down with “immediate effect.”

Harvard president Claudine Gay issued an apology for her remarks on anti-Semitism during congressional testimony earlier this week.

"I am sorry," Gay told the Harvard Crimson on Thursday. "Substantively, I failed to convey what is my truth."

Under questioning from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), Gay refused to say whether calling for violence against Jews would violate Harvard's policies against harassment and bullying, saying it "depends on the context."

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has had a rough couple of days. She had a horrific exchange in front of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce this week, where she refused to say those calling for Jewish genocide are engaging in harassment. Jewish students have been besieged since the war in Gaza began in October. Magill was not alone—Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology head Sally Kornbluth also refused to offer a direct condemnation of these antisemitic antics.

The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology emphasized the importance of free speech on campus when pressed during a Tuesday congressional hearing on how antisemitism was allowed to run rampant at their respective institutions, which have in recent years failed to defend the First Amendment on countless occasions in the name of protecting marginalized communities.

The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are facing questions from Congress Tuesday about their responses to alleged incidents of antisemitism on their campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

“Today, each of you will have a chance to answer to and atone for the many specific instances of vitriolic, hate-filled antisemitism on your respective campuses that have denied students the safe learning environment they are due,” said Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina.

Harvard University President Claudine Gay testified in a high-profile congressional hearing Tuesday morning she has seen a “dramatic and deeply concerning rise in antisemitism” on college campuses, including at Harvard, as tensions soar amid Israel’s war with Hamas—and school administrators face criticism for their handling of tense protests.

Shortly after the Supreme Court declared affirmative action college admission policies unconstitutional, President Joe Biden said his administration would direct the Department of Education to scrutinize how "practices like legacy admissions … expand privilege instead of opportunity."

The department could start by examining how politically connected families like the Bidens get their children into Ivy League schools.