Departments to cut costs 3.02.09
Braving the gravest financial straits in recent memory, planning for next year’s budget has officially begun.
Braving the gravest financial straits in recent memory, planning for next year’s budget has officially begun.
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.
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...
A ceremony is scheduled for 4:30 p.m., and the appointment will likely be announced in an e-mail to the community around the same time.
Will University President Richard Levin appoint a scientist, underscoring his commitment to boosting the University’s science reputation? Or will he choose a young, rising star, a Yale alumna who in a few years could be anointed Yale’s 23rd president? Or none of the above?
In an early-morning e-mail to colleagues Tuesday, Provost Andrew Hamilton said he has been nominated to lead the University of Oxford as its vice-chancellor beginning in October 2009.
The Provost's Office is now handling the still-unresolved NELC harassment case.
Few careers include both research on lemurs in Africa and successful negotiation of environmental reform. But Alison Richard — one-time University provost and former Director of the Yale Peabody Museum — has somehow managed all this and more.
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton, a well-tailored Englishman known for his eloquence, does not often lose his composure. But he did just that when he first toured the science complex here that has now become Yale’s West Campus.
The survey, which was conducted during the last academic year, points to significant inequities among junior faculty members when it comes to their mentoring experiences, with women and underrepresented minorities reporting the lowest satisfaction levels.