Yale awaits budget memo
As the University’s annual budget-planning memo gets pushed back another week, department heads are left waiting and wondering how much of Yale’s $100 million budget gap will fall on them.
Until they receive the memo — which is usually sent around Christmas but has been delayed this year — department heads can only guess at whether the University’s budget cuts will lead to minor inconveniences or drastic cuts.
A December letter from University President Richard Levin announcing a precipitous decline in Yale’s endowment pushed the memo’s release into the new year, and the...