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Yale ELECTS trustees; amazing
Topic Started: Apr 15 2011, 08:13 AM (341 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://www.dartblog.com/

Democracy seems to still have a place in New Haven, unlike certain northern precincts. In Yale’s ongoing Trustee — called Fellows — election, three candidates are contesting one open seat. They are all quite different one from the other, all qualified, and for some reason, nobody at Yale is worried about candidate churn or whether people will have their feelings hurt if they lose.


Who ever heard of anything like that at Duke?

Candidates for trustee positions have to actually seek votes, answer questions, convince voters of their fitness,
and respond to voter demands.

Amazing...


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The most striking aspect of Yale’s 16-member governing Board is its balance. No group with a particular educational or experiential background dominates the Board:

Five of the 16 Fellows have their most significant professional experience in the academy. Three are or were professors, one was a museum director, and one is the Chancellor of the University of Texas system. Four of these five have doctoral degrees, and three of them taught undergraduates for many years at different educational institutions.

● The Board contains a Judge from the U.S. 2nd Circuit Board of Appeals, the Chairman of the Board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a social entrepreneur, and a journalist.

● Six of the 16 members of the Yale Board hold MBA degrees: three from Stanford, one from Harvard, one from the Indian Institute of Management, and one from Yale (whose School of Organization and Management then awarded an MPPM degree)
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Quasimodo

Dartmouth permits is almuni to elect trustees:

Dartmouth trustee ELECTION RESULTS

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I hope that you have not been holding your breath.The long-awaited results are in and all candidates in the Trustee and AoA election won with 100% of the vote.

A total of 10,572 voters participated.

[How many alumni get to vote in Duke trustee elections?]

Curiously, of the total number of voters, 1,432 declined to vote for Gail Boudreaux ‘82, who ran for Trustee Vacancy #1; she received 9,140 votes. And 1,556 did not vote for Bill Burgess ‘81, who ran for Trustee Vacancy #2; he received 9,016 votes. In contrast, in 2007, petition Trustee Stephen Smith received 9,984 votes in a race in which 18,186 alumni voted and four candidates participated.

David Spalding’s Office of Alumni Relations is reporting that approximately 15.5% of alumni voted, but as always, the College’s deftness with statistics lurks in the background. In past years, the voter participation calculation was derived from a base of “living alumni.” No longer. Now the denominator in this percentage is “alumni who have shared their contact information with Dartmouth.” Reduce the denominator; up your percentage. Clever, huh?

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This is the same sleight of hand that the College uses to inflate our alumni giving percentage participation figures so that we look like we are offering some competition to Princeton. When I researched this question a year and a half ago, the Development Office said that it was unable to contact over 10% of living undergraduate alumni; the comparable figure for Princeton was slightly over 2%


Almuni actually have some input, the Trustees have to be responsive, and the trustees are not a self-perpetuating board
which can meet in secret and never have to 'splain anything to the peasants...

Imagine if the Duke trustees had to answer questions from the alumni about the lax case, and face re-election
on their record...
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