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The ruling stems from a March 2022 lawsuit alleging that the Corporation's termination of the petition process violates the terms of an 1872 amendment to Yale’s charter.
Judge John Burns Farley made no ruling in a recent hearing of the lawsuit to restore the alumni petition process to the Yale Corporation.
As the Yale Corporation seeks to identify a successor for University President Peter Salovey, students are calling for greater input in the search process.
Yale University's governing body has resorted to procedural tactics that wouldn’t be out of place in a dictatorship.
Explainer: how alumni elect trustees With a petition candidate on the ballot for the first time in 19 years, there is new interest in the election process. Michael Marsland The Corporation Room in Woodbridge Hall, where Yale’s trustees meet. Every year, alumni elect a trustee to a six-year term. View full image If you’re not sure you could pass a pop quiz on how the alumni elect a trustee to the Yale Board every year, you’re not alone. Only about 12 percent of eligible alumni voted in last year’s election. But this year’s has drawn more than the usual interest from alumni, partl...