For the honor of UChicago College alumni I counted those on the Board - nineteen. Several also have professional or advanced degrees from the University. Almost all of them (except David Brooks) have business credentials. (I suppose Brooks is expected to tip his hat to his alma mater occasionally in his columns.)
Boards of Trustees have to worry about the practicalities of operating a great University. A business orientation is to be expected. However, I would hope that these nineteen will remember with gratitude and pleasure the excitement and stimulation of the College as they knew it and will accordingly be voices resisting any measures that would threaten its peculiar ethos. I have to believe that Chicago alumni are like their Harvard or Yale counterparts in wanting to preserve the best in the traditions of their respective alma maters. That impulse isn’t wrong in itself - it all depends on whether those traditions are worth preserving. The traditions that @surelyhuman refers to at the University of Chicago are worth it!