Harvard Corporation: Business as Usual While Harvard's Corporation gives no sign of changing the needlessly secretive way it goes about its clandestine business, alumni at Dartmouth have voted to continue making their corporation at least somewhat democratic.

As InsideHigherEd reports,

At Dartmouth College, graduates have voted down a proposed new constitution for its alumni association that would have, among other things, changed the timing for when petition candidates would make their intentions known.

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Anne D. Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, called the vote a “significant victory” for reform candidates and alumni who are concerned about the status quo.

“This is a substantial vote because alumni want to ensure free speech and thought,” Neal said. “There’s a traditional perception that alumni should put up and shut up. That attitude has been changing across the country — it’s a healthy situation.”

Harvard often wonders why its alums do not give at the same rate as, say, Dartmouth alums. Perhaps one reason is the sense that the governing board does not give a damn what the alumni want and feels no obligation to communicate to them.

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