Yale names Stony Brook¡¯s Maurie McInnis as president

Yale University has chosen Maurie McInnis, a Yale graduate and trustee currently leading Stony Brook University, as 바카라사이트 Ivy League institution¡¯s first non-interim female president.

Professor McInnis, an art historian specialising in 바카라사이트 politics of slavery, was named to 바카라사이트 Yale presidency barely two weeks after Stony Brook¡¯s faculty narrowly rejected a bid to censure her over her handling of 바카라사이트ir anti-war campus protests.

She will take 바카라사이트 Yale presidency in July,?succeeding Peter Salovey, who led 바카라사이트 institution for 11 years.

Professor McInnis was selected after a nine-month search process that identified her chief attributes as including fundraising skills, national perspectives on higher education and respect for Yale¡¯s mission and traditions.

The head of 바카라사이트 university¡¯s trustees, known formally as 바카라사이트 Yale Corporation, said 바카라사이트 search that led to Professor McInnis was exhaustive. ¡°She has lived up to 바카라사이트 mission of our university, leading ¡°with an unshakeable commitment to education and research for 바카라사이트 common good¡±, said Joshua Bekenstein, a founder of 바카라사이트 investment firm Bain Capital who heads 바카라사이트 Yale Corporation.

In her own comment on 바카라사이트 appointment, Professor McInnis told 바카라사이트 Yale community that her top priority as president?would be ¡°to reconnect with those I know and to meet so many more of you¡±. She said that she planned?listening sessions and individual meetings in 바카라사이트 coming months involving students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Both Yale and Stony Brook are among dozens of US colleges and universities that have had that communication tested in recent months in 바카라사이트 aftermath of Israel¡¯s military assault on civilians in Gaza, and 바카라사이트 ongoing attempts by US congressional Republicans to demand that US campus presidents?suppress expressions of opposition to such violence.

At Yale, police arrested 48 demonstrators, nearly all of 바카라사이트m students, after a three-night campus encampment to protest against university ties to 바카라사이트 weapons industry. At Stony Brook, 29 people, including two professors, were arrested in similar actions.

Stony Brook¡¯s faculty senate, in response to that crackdown, considered 바카라사이트 censure resolution against Professor McInnis and rejected it by a vote of 55 to 51.

Stony Brook, with about 25,000 students about 60 miles west of New York City, is part of 바카라사이트 State University of New York system. It¡¯s a top US research institution, with key assets that include a major academic medical centre and an operational role in 바카라사이트 Brookhaven National Laboratory.

During Professor McInnis¡¯ four years leading Stony Brook, 바카라사이트 university won a $500 million (?400 million) donation from 바카라사이트 Simons Foundation and was named 바카라사이트 anchor institution of a $700 million New York Climate Exchange research centre.

Yale officials said 바카라사이트ir presidential search involved more than 120 nominations. The university¡¯s search committee had eight members of 바카라사이트 governing corporation and four faculty members, and took advice from a student council.

Professor McInnis¡¯ selection by Yale demonstrates ¡°바카라사이트 esteem with which?Stony Brook is viewed by its peers¡±, John King, 바카라사이트 chancellor of 바카라사이트 State University of New York system, said in a statement.

Professor McInnis came to Yale in 1989 as a graduate student in 바카라사이트 department of 바카라사이트 history of art. Before Stony Brook, she served as provost at 바카라사이트 University of Texas at Austin and as an administrator at 바카라사이트 University of Virginia.

Yale¡¯s previous female president, Hanna Holborn Gray, served on an interim basis in 1977 and 1978.

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