Dunno how many folks from Yale are here, but there's a letter to be sent to President McInnis and the Yale Board of Trustees from as many Yale alums as wish to sign. You can find the letter here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLScy1Nt_s1W9zTEbeCc65cCwI6A8jM1g2NKRaWavKjg_tY0bqw/formResponse
Google DocsLetter from Yale alumsThe following is a letter to be sent to President McInnis and the Yale Board of Trustees from as many Yale alums as wish to sign. To add your signature, please write your name and your school/year in the fields at the bottom. These will be collected on a spreadsheet and manually added below, at least once a day. After a period of time collecting names, we will deliver this letter to the addressees. Your names will appear on the letter below but your emails will NOT be printed, will remain private (we are only collecting them in case we need to update signers about anything pertaining to the letter).
Dear President McInnis and the Board of Trustees:
We the undersigned Yale alumni write to urge you to take a courageous stance in defending higher education against assaults by the federal government.
We believe that Yale is well positioned to use its great strength to show great leadership. The threats to Yale’s educational mission and the wellbeing of its students are shared by other universities and colleges. Yale should not face these threats alone. It should instead spearhead efforts to bring together other institutions of higher learning, creating a collective plan of defense.
We understand that this may be a difficult request. There are valuable resources to protect. But a strategy of keeping one’s head down, hoping federal attention instead falls on other institutions, is doomed to fail. Eventually Yale will land in the crosshairs. And when it does, there may be no one left to defend it.
Yale should take action now, before it becomes a target, as a leader in a collective attempt to fight back. This is the only way to meet the monumental challenges of this moment, and to safeguard the value of the university in an increasingly hostile environment. By remaining silent and lobbying behind closed doors, you may fare better than other institutions in the short term, but in the long term, you will assist in the general degradation of higher education in this country (a process which, we are sure you know, has sadly already begun). We urge you to play the longer game, and the more courageous game. History shows us that collective action “is the only defense that has ever stopped the rise of autocracy” (to quote Ian Bassin, Yale Law '06).
At her first public address as President, speaking to the incoming class of 2028, President McInnis handed out copies of Edward Hopper’s “Sunlight in a Cafeteria” and asked the audience to consider the two separate figures, each sitting alone in their thoughts. She asked the first-years to combat this sort of isolation, to take the initiative to reach out and build connection and community. And then she told them to take what they gathered from those connections to “go out into the world to lead and serve.”
We implore you, President McInnis, to heed your own advice: reach out and build connections, so that you may lead and serve the whole community of higher education. And do so openly, in Hopper’s “sunlight.” Lead bravely by taking a public stance, and model the moral courage you exhort your students to uphold. Make us proud to be Yalies, members of a community that stands up for what is most important.
Signed, the following alumni of Yale:
Katherine Profeta, YC ‘90, DGSD MFA ‘99, DFA ‘09
J. Monty Worth, YC '91
This letter was sent out the morning of 4/15. By 2pm we had 150 names, now listed alphabetically below. At 10:30 pm we have just over 600 names. On 4/16 we will make viewable what we have collected in the first 24 hours, and probably move things to a separate Google doc to view them.
Shirley Adams ‘84
Daniel Alt GAS ‘97
Ritika Arora YC ‘95
Ana Ayerbe ‘86
Gwen Baggs Ito YC, BK ‘85
Rebecca Bailey YC '98
Pun Bandhu DRA ‘01
Lori Barker YC, BK, ‘86
Jason Baruch YC, DC ‘90
Sarah Bassett YC, JE ‘89
Alice Bauer Law School ‘86
Steve Bodow YC ‘89
Jake Bowers YC ‘92
James Brinegar ‘88
Helen Bronston YC, JE ‘85
Pearce Bunting YSD ‘88
Suzanne Burger YC, TC ‘82
Kevin Burget YC '86
Jonathan Busky YC '94, SOM '02, YSD / DGSD '02
Mary Cardoza YC ‘83
Antonia Carew-Watts YC ‘91
Rebecca Carter YC ‘94
David Chan YC, BR ‘91
Priscilla Chang YC ‘82
Lisa Channer ‘00
Donna Civitello YC ‘78
John Collins YC ‘91
Matthew Comeau YC, BR ‘95
Veda Cook YC ‘93
Betsy Cooper YC ‘87
David Cornell YC '85, GRD '88, GRD '94
Eleanor Courtemanche YC ‘90
Brendan de Kenessey YC ‘11
Nicholas Debs YC ‘87
Kristine DiColandrea YC ‘07
Mary-Charlotte Domandi YC, SY ‘83
Annie Dorsen YC '96
Karl Douglass YC, MC ‘90
Rana Emerson YC ‘93
Lelah Eppenbach YC ‘98
Elisabeth Farnum YC, BK ‘85
Drew Firster YC, BK ‘95
Howard Fischer YC ‘88
Emily Freedman SOM ‘21
eston fung ‘17
Karl Gajdusek YC ‘90
Rebecca Gamzon YC ‘91
Mary Garza YC ‘94
Katharine Gin YC ‘94
Bill Glew YC ‘79
Rachel Glodo YC ‘13
Rachel Goldstein YC ‘16
Cebra Graves YC ’93, SOM ‘01
Katherine Gressel YC ‘03
Kendra Grimes YSN ‘11
James Hannaham YC ‘90
Marcy Hardart YC ‘87
Melissa Harris YC ‘82
Michelle Hartz YC, PC ‘85
Natalie Hennessy YC ‘98
Timothy Hughes YC ‘88
Kelley Hwang YC, TC ‘82
Emily Iqbal YC ‘05
Calla Jo YC ‘88
Allison Karn YC ’90 M.Arch ‘95
Kirsten Kaschock YC ‘94
Olivia Kim YC ‘87
Ana Klement YC ‘85
Stephen Knight YC ‘87
Eva Kolodner YC ‘92
Aneesha Kudtarkar DGSD ‘19
James Lande YC ‘87
Harriet Landseer YC, GH ‘09
Erika Lantz YC ‘11
Susan LaPalombara ‘83
Ann Larson YC ‘74
Tina Lee YC, TD ‘94
Michael Lee YC ‘93
Amy Lemon YC ‘90
Nina Lester YC ‘82
Rosa Li YC, GH ‘09
Tracey Lloyd Everett YC ‘95
James Lochart YC ‘87
Suzanne Luke YC ’88 YSD ‘95
Mawiyah Lythcott YC ‘97 GSAS ‘02
Sameena Shina Majeed YC ‘95
Kelly Maynard YC ‘03
Margaret McCarthy YC ‘03
Ellen Mendlow YC ‘86
Jenny Mercein YC ‘95
Donna Minkowitz YC ‘85
Robert Mork YC ‘88
Elizabeth Neary YC ‘87
Carrie Paterson YC ‘94
Mary Peck YC ‘94
Jonathan Pitts-Wiley YC ‘07
Julie Post YC, TC ‘07
Mel Powell YC ‘85
Fred Profeta YC ‘61
Justin Quam YC, GH ‘10
Timothy Quan YC, DC ‘90
Natasha Reichle ‘87
Fred Ritchin YC ‘73
Louise Rogers YC ‘88
Daniel Rolde YC ‘91
Mónica Russel y Rodríguez YC ‘88
Liza Ryan YC, PC ‘94
Anita Sen YC, TD ‘95
AM Senior-Saywell YC, ES ‘93
Nancy Seybold YC ‘88, YGS ‘92
Nandita Shenoy YC ‘94
Karen Sherman YC ‘88
Sangini Sheth YC ‘03
Jennifer Siegel YC ’90, PhD History ‘98
Andrew Siegel YC ‘90
Richard Sigal YC ‘60
Hannah Silverstein YC, SM ‘94
Raphael Simon YC ‘89
Abigail Smith YC ‘92
Candice Snowden GSAS ‘23
brin solomon YC ‘14
Jennifer Spreitzer YC ‘89
Kari Steeves YC, TD ‘89
Cecily Steppe YC ‘95
Thomas Susman YC ‘64
Tara Susman-Pena (Susman) YC ‘90
Elizabeth Svoboda YC, ES ‘03
Alison Tatlock YC ‘89
Wells Thorne YC ‘14
Matt Turner YC, ES ‘90
Jennifer Turner YC ‘94
Christina Unhoch Mason ‘90
Sean Veder YC ‘90
Wanda Venters YC, PC ‘76
Cristobel Von Walstrom SOM ‘01
Lauren Waits YC, MC ‘90
Donald Watson YC ‘59
Rebecca Waugh YC ‘94
Colin Weil YC ‘88
Barbara Weinstein YC ‘90
Sarah Beth Weintraub YC ‘11
Carla Weisman YC ‘90
John Wilkinson YC ‘60
Lulu Wong YC ‘90
Alexi Worth YC ‘86
Sam Zalutsky YC ‘92
Barbara Zarsky YC ‘73
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