Following her resignation, Gay became the second prominent figure from the Ivy League to leave in recent weeks, in the midst of a controversy sparked by their widely mocked congressional testimony about antisemitism on campuses.
Hundreds of faculty at the Harvard University have signed a petition backing the school's president following backlash over her appearance at a congressional hearing on rising anti-Semitism in the US, Al Jazeera reported.
In an email to university alumni, Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok stated, "I write to share that President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania."
Harvard University President Claudine Gay apologized for her response during a congressional hearing where she failed to 'explicitly condemn' calls for genocide against the Jewish people, CNN reported.