Pollack was serving as the university’s president for the past seven years and called it ‘an amazing privilege’ read more As pro-Palestinian protests swept the college campuses across the United States, Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack said that she will step down from the post by the end of June. With this, Pollack became the third president of an Ivy League school to step down since December last year. It all started with Harvard president Claudine Gay’s resignation which was followed by the resignation of University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill. However, the two resignations came after they gave...