As a records manager, I have lots of questions about this story. Foremost
of which is, “what was Yale’s retention policy for these records to begin
with?” Yale, as a private institution, doesn’t have a statutory requirement
for records management the way my own institution does, but it is of course
good practice, and I happen to know that Yale does have a records
management program
<http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa/offices/information-and-policies> . That
said, Red Flag Number One is that the actual retention schedule
<http://ogc.yale.edu/yale-records-retention-schedule> is managed by Yale’s
Office of General Counsel rather than the Record Services program. (No
guesses on how findable it is from the General Counsel website…) Red Flag
Number Two is that the entire schedule appears to date from 2010 with no
apparent updates since then. Number Three is that there IS no schedule for
admissions records that I can see.

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Peterk
Dallas, Tx
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