Yale Taps Stony Brook President to Lead Ivy Amid US Tumult

Yale University named Maurie McInnis, the head of Long Island’s Stony Brook University, as its new president at a time of tumult across US higher education over everything from student protests to faculty diversity and admissions.

McInnis, a Yale-trained art historian, will start on July 1, the university said Wednesday. At Stony Brook, she landed a $500 million gift last year from Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons and served as the inaugural board chair of the New York Climate Exchange. More recently, she came under faculty criticism for calling in the police to deal with pro-Palestinian protests.