The embattled City University of New York president who sparked a backlash by hiring controversial pro-Palestinian professor Marc Lamont Hill is leaving the job. Robin Garrell, who headed CUNY’s Graduate Center for three years, will step down at the end of September, the school’s chancellor announced this week. “CUNY will appoint an interim president in the coming weeks and launch a national search for her successor in the near future,” Chancellor Matos Rodriguez said in a statement. “In the meantime, we congratulate President Garrell on her accomplishments, thank her for her service to the Graduate Center and CUNY, and wish...