 They recommend professors and universities try to be ready for these situations.In March 2015, Todd Samuel Presner, the director of the Jewish studies center at the University of California, Los Angeles, joined Cornel West and Anita Hill in cancelling lectures they were scheduled to give at the University of Illinois over this controversy.Presner notified Phyllis Wise that he would not visit the campus for its Rosenthal Lecture because of how she and the university board handled the Salaita case.