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A Home committee despatched a letter to the College of Pennsylvania on Wednesday demanding the college flip over paperwork associated to an investigation into antisemitism on campus.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the Committee on Schooling and the Workforce, is requesting that UPenn reply to the doc request by no later than February 7.
The committee is searching for a variety of paperwork, together with reviews of antisemitic exercise on campus since early 2021; how UPenn responds to hate crimes; disciplinary actions towards workers and college students associated to alleged concentrating on of Jews; paperwork and monetary info linked to a Palestinian literature festival held on campus final yr; and data on international donations, together with donations from Qatar.
“We have now grave issues concerning the inadequacy of Penn’s response to antisemitism on its campus,” Foxx wrote within the letter to Larry Jameson, UPenn’s interim president, and Ramanan Raghavendran, the chair of the board of trustees.
Lawmakers launched a formal investigation into UPenn, Harvard College and MIT final month following disastrous testimony about antisemitism from the leaders of the three faculties.
Liz Magill stepped down final month as UPenn’s president within the wake of her testimony on Capitol Hill. Scott Bok, the chair of the board of trustees, additionally stepped down.
A UPenn spokesperson advised CNN in a press release that the college has obtained the doc request and “will reply after we full a evaluate of the request.”
Foxx slammed Harvard on Tuesday night for an “unacceptable” response to the committee’s doc request and urged lawmakers may subject a subpoena if the college doesn’t comply.
This story has been up to date with extra developments.