The Yale Corporation will handpick future board members Yale students on campus / Getty Images Alex Nester • May 25, 2021 6:20 pm
Yale University s board of trustees will no longer allow independent candidates to run for the school s governing body, doing away with a key mechanism independent and conservative alumni have used to seek representation.
Senior Trustee Catharine Bond Hill announced Monday that the board, also known as the Yale Corporation, was eliminating the petition process through which candidates not handpicked by the university could seek election. The move comes just months after the first petition candidate in nearly 20 years, Victor Ashe, secured a spot on the ballot.