Yale President Peter Salovey in 2023 is part of that new breed of college presidents who were weaned on the bitter milk of the Kent State killings. He has learned to listen as a recent Yale Daily News article indicates.
The push to award Pennington his degree 186 years after he studied at Yale has been far from easy, but student groups see the Board of Trustees’ decision as a step in the right direction.
Dear Members of the Yale Community, I write to share the news that the Yale board of trustees has voted to confer the M.A. Privatim degree on the Reverend James W. C. Pennington (c. 1807-1870) and the Reverend Alexander Crummell (1819-1898), effective today.