Vahan Gureghian, who resigned as a UPenn trustee over the school's response to the Israel-Hamas war, says universities need to stop letting students run their schools.
Colleges should expect more vocal board members and less generous donors if they continue letting students force 'woke' decisions on administrators, a former University of Pennsylvania trustee said following widespread anti-Israel rallies. 'A university is not run by the students, the university is run by the board of trustees who represent all the alumni,' the former trustee, CSMI CEO and charter school magnate Vahan Gureghian, told Fox News.
Penn faced criticism prior to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel for hosting a 'Palestine Writes Literature Festival' featuring speakers with a history of antisemitism despite alumni and students' appeals to cancel or condemn the event, Fox News previously reported. Gureghian, who was still a trustee at the time, was surprised the university's president, Liz Magill, let the Sept. 22 event proceed after concerns were raised.
Gureghian said university administrators across the country have given students too much power in their decision-making and allowed extreme views to fester without pushback. 'They let it get out of hand,' he told Fox News. 'We're in a time of cancel culture? They need to cancel things. They need to cancel things that are this controversial.' Gureghian said in his experience, boards vote unanimously '99.
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