Cornell University President Martha Pollack on Thursday announced her retirement after seven years, adding in a statement the decision was “mine and mine alone.”

Her final day will be June 30.

Pollack becomes the third Ivy League president to depart since December, following the resignations of Claudine Gay at Harvard and Liz Magill at the University of Pennsylvania. It also came at a time when college campuses across the nation have been roiled by anti-Israel protests that have led to thousands of arrests.

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