Emerson parent says ‘serious failure’ by administrators prompted petition

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Emerson parent says ‘serious failure’ by administrators prompted petition

Nearly 150 Emerson College parents on Thursday sent a letter calling for President Jay Bernhardt’s resignation, a decision one parent said was motivated by a sense that administrators and Bernhardt in particular had consistently failed to meet the needs of students before and after the arrests of more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters last week.Megan Howard, one of the organizers of the petition, and the first parent to sign on, told MassLive …