Jeff Roe, the chief strategist for the leading super PAC supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid, resigned on Saturday night, the latest and perhaps most significant departure from the group, which has been consumed by turmoil in recent weeks. Since the day before Thanksgiving, the pro-DeSantis super PAC, which is called Never Back Down, has…
The president of the University of Pennsylvania, M. Elizabeth Magill, resigned on Saturday, four days after she appeared before Congress and appeared to evade the question of whether students who called for the genocide of Jews should be punished. Support for Ms. Magill, already shaken in recent months over her approach to a Palestinian literary…
A high school football coach in the Cleveland area resigned on Monday after he and his team repeatedly used the word “Nazi” as a play-call reference during a game on Friday night, school officials said. The coach, Tim McFarland, who led Brooklyn High School’s football team, and his players used the term in the first…
Following months of intense scrutiny of his scientific work, Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he would resign as president of Stanford University after an independent review of his research found significant flaws in studies he supervised going back decades. The review, conducted by an outside panel of scientists, refuted the most serious claim involving Dr.…
The president of Temple University in Philadelphia resigned on Tuesday after a brief and tumultuous tenure plagued by worsening crime around campus, a strike by graduate students and a loss of confidence in his leadership among some faculty. Jason Wingard, who became the university’s first Black president in 2021, sent a statement to the campus…