University of Pennsylvania’s board of trustees is facing a public challenge from faculty and staff for refusing to meet and discuss Penn’s refusal to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) to the Philadelphia public schools.

After months of silence from the trustees, faculty and staff held a virtual press conference on Tuesday to discuss the need for accountability from the trustees — and to call on them to reverse course at this afternoon’s meeting of the trustees’ Budget and Finance Committee.

Amid historic protests against racial inequality, more than 1,000 faculty and staff have called on Penn, the largest nonprofit in the city, to pay PILOTs, as nearly all Ivy League universities already do. From its petition:

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