Yale Corporation Called Exclusive

The Yale Corporation is a homogeneous, self-perpetuating body based on class privilege and drawn from "a narrow stratum of society," reported the Yale University Study Commission on Governance recently.

The 60-member commission, appointed by Yale President Kingman Brewster in January 1970, included 24 faculty members, five non-faculty employees, 24 students, five non-faculty employees, 24 students, two alumni and five others.

The report cites trustees' "intimacy with some parts of society to the near exclusion of others" and the conspicuous absence of women, blacks, Jews and Catholics, as well as leaders in fields other than finance and business on the governing board.

The report said there was a "great deal-of truth" in the charge by radical critics that universities are class-based institutions, and described universities as "reluctant revolutionaries."