Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook University

A few weeks before Yale announced that Maurie McInnis would be its new president, she narrowly avoided censure at Stony Brook University, which she led for four years. The university senate criticized Dr. McInnis’s decision to call in the police on May 1 to take down a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Stony Brook campus on Long Island. The arrests marked the culmination of growing discord between Stony Brook’s faculty and its soon-to-be-departing president over policing and free speech, issues that she is likely to confront again at Yale, where she took over as president on Monday.