Yale Corporation

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The Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Corporation comprises 19 members:

• Three ex officio members: the President of the University and the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut.
• Ten "Successor Trustees" who elect their own successors.
• Six Alumni Fellows who are elected by the body of Yale alumni.

While Article 8 Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Connecticut recognizes a 1792 Act of the Connecticut General Assembly, which established the governor, lieutenant governor, and six members of the State Senate as ex officio members of the Corporation, an 1871 act of the Connecticut Legislature gave Yale alumni the right to elect the six posts formerly occupied by state senators. As written by George Wilson Pierson in "The Founding of Yale - The Legend of the Forty Folios":

    In the 1750s President Clap did cause or engineer two great breaks: the separation
    of the College from the churches by the setting up of an independent college church,
    and separation of the College from the state by the refusal of inspection and termination 
    of colony support. But the second separation proved unsuccessful. So Stiles and his  
    trustees had to bring political authorites back into management of the College by adding
    the governor, lieutenant governor, and six senior assistants to the Fellows of the
    Corporation in return for some monies and for the confirmation of the colonial charter.
    So, whatever the traditions or later assumptions, Yale College would not find itself
    operationally free from political supervision until 1872, when by law six alumni 
    fellows or trustees were allowed to be substituted for the six senior senators
    of the Corporation.[1]

Current members as of the 2006 to 2007 school year:

• Richard C. Levin (Rick Levin), President of Yale University (ex officio)
• M. Jodi Rell, Governor of the State of Connecticut (ex officio)
• Michael Fedele, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut (ex officio)
• G. Leonard Baker, managing partner of Sutter Hill Ventures
• Roland W. Betts, investor, film producer, developer, and owner of Chelsea Piers
• Susan M. Crown, Vice President of Henry Crown Co. and President of Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
• Charles D. Ellis, senior advisor and founder of Greenwich Associates
• Gerhard Casper, Professor of Law and President Emeritus at Stanford University
• Edward P. Bass, Chairman and CEO, Fine Line, Inc., co-founder and funder of Biosphere 2
• Maya Lin, architect and sculptor of Maya Lin Studios
• Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
• Hon. Barrington D. Parker, Jr., federal appeals court judge for the Second Circuit.
• Janet Yellen, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, former Federal Reserve Governor, former chair of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors
• Theodore P. Shen, former Chairman of DLJ Capital Markets and retired investment analyst
• Jeffrey P. Koplan, Vice President for Academic Health Affairs of Emory University
• Hon. Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• William I. Miller, Chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial Corporation
• Fareed Zakaria, Editor of Newsweek International
• Jeffrey Bewkes, President and CEO of Time Warner
• Donna Dubinsky, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Numenta, Inc.
• Margaret Warner, senior correspondent for PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

[edit] External links

• The Bylaws of the Yale Corporation