Faculty Group Criticizes Billionaire's Attempts to Influence Penn Policy After President's Resignation
• Billionaire Marc Rowan continues attacking Penn even after the university president resigned following his pressure campaign • Faculty group AAUP released a statement criticizing Rowan's attempts to influence academic policy and suppress inconvenient research • Rowan declared that Wharton, engineering, med school, and hospital faculty care about research, but "not so much" arts and sciences • Some faculty didn't appreciate Rowan's dig, questioning if he should serve on Wharton's board given his disrespect for academic freedom • AAUP denounced Rowan's letter calling for closing departments and "McCarthyite speech codes", seeing it as a Republican takeover