Maurie McInnis
United States
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Maurie Dee McInnis is an American art historian who has been the 24th president of Yale University since July 2024. She was previously the 6th president of Stony Brook University from 2020 to 2024.
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Sep 14, 2026
Far Left
The Yale president is accused in The Nation of being a shameful collaborator with Trump, caving to the administration instead of standing up for the university's community.
The left sees McInnis as the exact case of elite institutional capitulation: university presidents have billions in endowments and legal firepower but fold anyway, proving that professional-managerial institutions will trade faculty and students for donor calm and their own salaries.