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...The company said Lavine, a large donor to the Democratic party and the former chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, “believes the time is right to take on a new role” and step back from day-to-day...
...You write (“Academics push back against donors’ influence after antisemitism claims at Penn”, Report, December 19) that Marc Rowan, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has queried how the Penn...
...The University of Pennsylvania declined to comment....
...And the trustees of the university, who appointed Shafik, said on Wednesday they “strongly” supported her “as she steers the university through this extraordinarily challenging time . . ....
...Marc Rowan helped force the resignation earlier this month of Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, over her response to antisemitism on campus....
...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...
...Marc Rowan, the head of Apollo Global Management, separately led a campaign against the University of Pennsylvania, which sparked the resignation of Scott Bok, chair of the board of trustees....
...It was a riveting image: the presidents of three of the world’s most elite universities — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — seated together at a witness...
...The graduate of the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania downplayed his knowledge of accounting standards, saying at one point: “Nope. That’s what I have CPAs for.”...
...University of Pennsylvania: The resignation earlier this month of Liz Magill has triggered a debate about the level of influence trustees have over students and faculty....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...The museum has already agreed the return of Benin bronzes, as have the universities of Cambridge and Aberdeen....
...George Osborne has been appointed the next chair of the trustees of the British Museum, placing the former Conservative chancellor in one of the most prominent roles in UK culture....
...As a student at Queen Mary University of London in 2016, she opposed a successful campaign to remove a foundation stone from the university’s library that was laid by King Leopold II, the Belgian king who...
...In Europe, Biden has picked Denise Campbell Bauer, a prominent Democratic fundraiser and Obama’s envoy to Belgium, as ambassador to France, and tapped Amy Gutmann, the president of the University of Pennsylvania...
...Having studied business administration at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (he graduated in 2003), he went on to found the Whitaker Group, which now runs street fashion brands such as Social Status and...
...From there, despite shaky English, he embarked on an academic career spanning San Francisco State College, the University of Texas at Austin, before becoming provost at the University of Pennsylvania and...
...The 1969 event followed a programme of studiously intensive Welshification for Prince Charles, including a term at the University of Aberystwyth, where he acquired an acceptable smattering of the admittedly...
...Last year, Parker Rider-Longmaid, an associate at the firm, wrote to colleagues to express concern Jones Day was lending “prestige and credibility to the project of an administration bent on undermining...
...Pennsylvania, New York University’s Stern School of Business and Stanford....
...In justifying their choice, the trustees argued: “It was not clear whether or not a process of mortuary disposal had been interrupted or disturbed; and it was not clear that the importance of the remains...
...Probably no other collector has established their own museum so young, but in Huang’s case it is not even the first: in 2014, aged just 20 and still at the University of Pennsylvania, he was one of the co-founders...
...Emperor: A New Life of Charles V , by Geoffrey Parker, Yale, RRP£25/$35, 760 pages Suzannah Lipscomb is professor of history at the University of Roehampton and author of ‘The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex...
...Over the summer, Mr Trumka toured Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania — rust-belt swing states in 2020 — to persuade workers to reject the US-Mexico-Canada deal....
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