Subject: Presidential Search
From: "Senior Fellow, Yale Corporation" <[email-masked]>
To: "Yale Alumni and Friends" <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Sep 2012 22:13:23 -0400

September 6, 2012

TO:

Yale Alumni and Friends

FROM:

Edward P. Bass, Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation

RE:

Presidential Search

I am pleased to share with you further developments with regard to the
Presidential Search. We have received over 800 letters from faculty, students,
staff, and alumni in response to my letter of August 31.  Many offered very
helpful suggestions, and more than 200 faculty members have been nominated to
serve as faculty representatives on the Presidential Search Committee.
Involvement by the Yale Community is key in this process, and it is gratifying
that so many individuals have responded to our call for input. We are in the
process of responding to every communication.

In accordance with the process we established, the Deans of the Professional
Schools have reviewed the names of nominees from their faculties and given me
their suggestions.  Likewise, the current and former Divisional Directors of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences plus Deans Miller and Pollard, a group of fourteen
in number, met and reviewed the names of nominees from the FAS and have given me
a short list of recommendations.  After further consultation with several
Trustee members of the Search Committee, I have invited the following
distinguished members of the faculty to serve on the Committee, each of whom has
accepted:

Judith Chevalier ’89, William S. Beinecke
Professor of Finance and Economics; School of Management; former Deputy
Provost

Amy Hungerford, Professor of English and American Studies,
Master of Morse College

Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor
of Medicine; Chair, Department of Genetics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute; School of Medicine

Anna Pyle, William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular,
Cellular & Developmental Biology; Investigator Howard Hughes Medical
Institute; Professor of Chemistry; former Director of the Division of Biological
Sciences

These four Faculty representatives will join eight Trustee members appointed
last week. A roster of the full Presidential Search Committee follows at the end
of this message.

I am also pleased to announce that Charles Goodyear ‘80 has agreed to serve
as Chair of the Search Committee.  Chip, a Successor Fellow of the Corporation,
has led complex organizations on several continents and I am confident will
bring skilled and sensitive leadership to the Committee.

To provide additional leadership from a highly respected and experienced
academician, I have designated Paul Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.,  to serve as
Vice Chair of the Committee. Paul, also a Successor Fellow, is former Chair of
the M.I.T. Economics Department and now President of the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation.

I announced last week that we would continue the practice introduced in the
1992-93 Presidential Search of appointing a Faculty Counselor to the Search
Committee, and at the same time announced appointees for Student, Staff and
Alumni Counselors to the Committee. The Faculty Counselor will be available to
any faculty member who wishes to offer counsel about the future of the
University and share his or her recommendations of candidates.  The views of any
faculty member who so requests will be forwarded to the Search Committee by the
Counselor without attribution.

In the nomination process, the Deans and Divisional Directors have submitted
to me a short list of nominations for Faculty Counselor. In addition, they have
recommended that I appoint two Faculty Counselors from the FAS, one a faculty
member from the sciences and one from the humanities, in order to ensure there
is sufficient capacity and ample opportunity for faculty who wish to convey
their views in this way.  I found this an excellent suggestion and accordingly
have invited the following two distinguished members of the faculty to serve as
Faculty Counselors, each of whom has accepted:

Michael McBride, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Chemistry,
emeritus

Ruth Yeazell ’71 Ph.D., ’70 M.
Phil., Chace Family Professor of English; former
Chair, English Department

The Faculty Counselors, in addition to facilitating the flow of comment from
the Faculty to the Committee, will be conferring with the Faculty
representatives on the Committee and the Trustee Liaison to the Faculty from the
Committee on means of developing better outreach to and communications with
faculty toward the goal of engendering broad participation of the faculty as the
search process progresses.

The Counselors for Students, for Staff, and for Alumni will likewise be
conferring with their respective Trustee Liaisons to design robust consultation
opportunities for each constituency. For example, Alumni Counselor Michael
Madison will be meeting with the AYA Board of Governors this weekend to begin
their conversation. Student Counselor Brandon Levin has arranged office hours to
meet with individual students and will be reaching out to YCC, Graduate Student
Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and other student
groups.  Staff Counselor Janet Lindner will be communicating with staff shortly
to outline a process for staff to be engaged in the consultations.

On behalf of the Corporation, I want to thank all of those who have agreed to
serve as members of and Counselors to the Presidential Search Committee. We are
truly grateful to them for agreeing to commit what will surely be considerable
time and effort to the benefit of Yale.

In developing the structure of the search process, the Yale Corporation
strongly affirmed a desire to have broad and vigorous participation from the
entire Yale community, including a means for the major constituencies --
faculty, students, staff, and alumni -- to communicate and make significant
input. I believe the structure now in place, which was carefully considered and
crafted in the context of the precedents and traditions for Presidential
Searches at Yale, will accomplish this goal.

Edward P. Bass, Senior Fellow
For the Yale Corporation

MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE

Judith Chevalier ’89,
William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics

Francisco G. Cigarroa ’79, Chancellor, University of Texas System

Peter B. Dervan ’72 Ph.D., Bren Professor of Chemistry, California Institute
of Technology

Donna L. Dubinsky ’77, Founder & Board Chair, Numenta, Inc.

Charles W. Goodyear ’80, President, Goodyear Capital Corporation (Chair)

Amy Hungerford, Professor of English and American Studies, Master of Morse
College

Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil, ’72 Ph.D., President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
and former Chair of the Economics Department of MIT (Vice Chair)

Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of
Medicine; Chair, Department of Genetics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute

Indra K. Nooyi ’80 M.P.P. M., Chairman of the Board & CEO, PepsiCo,
Inc.

Anna Pyle, William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular, Cellular &
Developmental Biology; Investigator Howard Hughes Med Institute; Professor
Chemistry

E. John Rice, Jr. ’88, Founder & CEO, Management Leadership for
Tomorrow

Douglas A. Warner III ’68, Former Chairman of the Board, JP Morgan Chase
& Company and Chairman of the Board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center

COUNSELORS TO THE PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE

Faculty Counselors:  Michael McBride, Ruth Yeazell
Student Counselor:
Brandon Levin ’14, immediate past President of the Yale College Council

Staff Counselor:  Janet Lindner, Associate Vice President for
Administration
Alumni Counselor: Michael Madison ’83, immediate past Chair,
AYA Board of Governors

Yale University Official Message
NOTE: This official Yale message can also be viewed at:
https://messages.yale.edu/messages/University/univmsgs/detail/81997

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