The University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees is facing unprecedented public challenge from faculty and staff for refusing to meet and discuss Penn’s obligation to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) to the Philadelphia public schools.  After months of silence from the trustees, faculty and staff have called a press conference by Zoom on Sept. 22 at 4 p.m. to discuss the need for accountability from the trustees—and to call on them to reverse course at the September 24 meeting of the Trustees’ Budget and Finance Committee.

This video features highlights from the September 22nd Penn for PILOTs Press Conference. Speakers: Dr. Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Associate Professor of History,...