Billionaire Marc Rowan’s War With Penn Keeps Getting Hotter
Billionaire Marc Rowan’s war with the University of Pennsylvania continues to escalate, even after he helped lead a pressure campaign to oust former president Liz Magill in the fall.
On Thursday, the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors released a statement that implicitly decried Rowan’s attempt to influence academic policy, as The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Rather than rich outsiders or alumni like Rowan, they wrote, Penn faculty should hold the power to “make academic decisions and evaluate the quality of scholarship within their areas of expertise.”