Miller assumes deanship 12.01.08
Mary Miller, the former master of Saybrook College and the Sterling Professor of the History of Art, is set to assume the deanship of Yale College today, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
Mary Miller, the former master of Saybrook College and the Sterling Professor of the History of Art, is set to assume the deanship of Yale College today, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
For the past two months, incoming Yale College Dean Mary Miller has been attending what she once laughingly called “dean school.” But for Miller, preparations have included not only meetings and documents but also interior decorating.
When asked to share an anecdote that characterizes Peter Salovey’s four-year tenure as dean of Yale College, Deputy Dean Joseph Gordon does not describe a time when the dean delivered a rousing speech, hosted a fundraising event or recruited a coveted faculty member. Instead, he points to a regular day at the office.
It was the piece that ended Raymond Ou’s piano career. Over a decade later, it was the piece that brought him to Yale.
A move just one block down Grove Street may well be a move almost entirely out of the daily lives of the student body — and undergraduates are worried. Yale College Dean Peter Salovey is, after all, one of the most recognizable faces on campus.
University President Richard Levin on Wednesday announced the formation of a search committee to recommend candidates to succeed Peter Salovey.
In appointing Yale College Dean Peter Salovey as provost last week, University President Richard Levin selected for himself a new right-hand man. He also may have chosen his own successor. As Salovey prepares to take office next month, his appointment to the University’s number-two position has raised an unavoidable question among those in Yale’s chattering classes:...
Yale College Dean Peter Salovey will be the University’s next provost, Yale President Richard Levin announced Wednesday, catapulting the “student-friendly dean,” who is highly visible at Yale College, to the second-highest position at the University. The appointment fills a void in the upper reaches of his administration, in a position largely unknown — at least before...
Yale College Dean Peter Salovey GRD ’86 will be the University’s next provost, Yale President Richard Levin announced Wednesday, filling one void in the upper reaches of his administration but opening up another. The 50-year-old Salovey, a professor of psychology, will take office Oct. 1. A committee has already been formed to recommend his successor, Levin said. “Peter...
The University has tapped staff from the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute to fill posts in the Yale College Dean’s Office, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry announced in a press release this week.
Pointing to an increasing national and University focus on self-assessment, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey announced last week a new position within the Dean’s Office to be charged with coordinating all the University’s surveys.
Dean of Freshman Affairs George Levesque will step down from his post at the end of this academic year in order to assume a new position as assistant dean for academic affairs, the Yale College Dean’s Office announced Monday.