A trustee since 2009, he denounced the university for hosting the Palestine Writes Literature Festival in September.
Vahan H. Gureghian said in a statement: "I urge you to take a hard look at the direction is headed and the externalities of its broken moral compass."Charter-school magnate Vahan H. Gureghian announced Saturday that he has resigned as a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania, citing what he called the school leadership’s “broken moral compass.”
“Just as at so many other elite academic institutions, the Penn community has been failed by an embrace of antisemitism, a failure to stand for justice, and complete negligence in the defense of our students’ well-being,” Gureghian, a lawyer and entrepreneur, said in a statement. He added: “I was shocked to read of the hate-filled rhetoric being espoused on our campus at an event fully supported by the University.
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