Save the dates: provisional 2023-24 faculty meeting schedule

[Summary: This message asks relevant FAS and SEAS faculty to hold certain Thursday afternoons from 4-6 for possible Yale College Faculty Meetings, FAS and/or SEAS Faculty Meetings, and meetings of Joint Board of Permanent Officers for the 2023-24 academic year, and reminds faculty of dates that are being held for meetings of the FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate.]

To: FAS Faculty, SEAS Faculty
Cc: FAS Steering, FAS Dean’s Office, Yale College Dean’s Office, GSAS Dean’s Office, SEAS Dean’s Office, FAS and SEAS Chair’s Assistants

Dear FAS and SEAS faculty,

By longstanding tradition, Thursday afternoons from 4-6pm have been reserved for meetings of the faculty in various configurations. To allow as many of us as possible to attend such events, we ask that you hold that time free each week. This will allow us to gather for Yale College Faculty meetings, FAS and/or SEAS Faculty meetings, and meetings of the Joint Board of Permanent Officers, each of which stands as the venue for certain sorts of faculty decision-making and discussion, and will allow faculty to attend meetings hosted by the FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate, which serves as an advisory body and as a forum and deliberative body for the discussion of FAS/SEAS issues.

All meetings listed below take place on Thursdays between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. Please note that the schedule below is provisional; all dates are tentative and subject to change. Note also that certain meetings are restricted to certain groups of faculty. Eligibility details are available in sections IV.G  and V.F of the Faculty Handbook; governance details are available in Section 30 of the Yale Bylaws.

We look forward to welcoming Provost Scott Strobel as a guest speaker at a meeting of FAS/SEAS Faculty that will take place this fall. We will confirm the specific date of his visit in the coming months.

Yale College Faculty Meetings

All ladder faculty, full-time faculty in the practice, full-time adjunct faculty, full-time senior lectors and lecturers, and full-time lectors and lecturers with multi-year appointments in FAS or SEAS departments or programs are invited to attend and vote. In addition, instructional faculty who serve as chairs, directors of undergraduate studies, or residential college deans or heads; ladder faculty in professional schools who regularly teach in Yale College, deans in the FAS, SEAS, and Yale College deans’ offices; assistant, associate, and vice provosts; and Officers of the University, may also attend and vote. These meetings are chaired by the Dean of Yale College, Pericles Lewis.

Yale College Faculty Meetings are currently scheduled for the following dates:

• October 5, 2023
• November 9, 2023
• February 1, 2024
• March 7, 2024
• April 4, 2024
• May 2, 2024
• May 17, 2024 (NB: This meeting will take place on a Friday)

Faculty Meetings

Ladder faculty with primary or fully-joint appointments in departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the School of Engineering & Applied Science, as relevant, may attend and vote. At meetings where no votes will be taken, instructional faculty (including, as appropriate, full-time, part-time, multi-year, or single-year) and research faculty (of some or all ranks) may be invited to attend. These meetings are chaired by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tamar Gendler and/or the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Jeffrey Brock, as relevant.

Faculty Meetings may be called on some of the following dates.

• October 12, 2023
• November 16, 2023 (SEAS only)
• February 8, 2024
• April 25, 2024

Joint Board of Permanent Officers Meetings

All full professors with primary or fully joint appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the School of Engineering & Applied Science, as well as full professors of professional schools who have both a secondary appointment in a Faculty of Arts and Sciences or School of Engineering & Applied Science department and explicit Corporation approval, are members of the Joint Board of Permanent Officers (JBPO) and are invited to attend and vote at meetings. These meetings are chaired by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tamar Gendler and/or the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Jeffrey Brock, as relevant.

Meetings of the JBPO are currently scheduled for the following dates.

• December 7, 2023
• January 25, 2024
• February 29, 2024
• April 11, 2024
• May 16, 2024

FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate Meetings

Ladder faculty with primary or fully joint appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or School of Engineering & Applied Science, as well as full-time adjuncts in all ranks, full-time senior lectors and senior lecturers, full time lectors and lecturers with appointments of more than one year, and full time FAS or SEAS research scientists and senior research scientists who also hold multi-year teaching appointments as lecturer or senior lecturer may attend in a non-voting capacity. The voting members of the FAS/SEAS Senate are its 23 elected representatives. These meetings are chaired by the Chair of the FAS/SEAS Senate, Meg Urry.

Meetings of the FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate are currently scheduled for the following dates.

• September 21, 2023 (closed meeting)
• October 26, 2023
• November 30, 2023
• December 14, 2023
• January 18, 2024
• February 15, 2024
• March 28, 2024
• April 18, 2024
• May 9, 2024 (closed meeting)

 
While we do not expect that meetings will occur on all of the dates enumerated in this message, we encourage you to hold them available as appropriate.
 
Thank you for all that you have done – and are doing –  for the FAS, for SEAS, and for Yale.

Tamar and Jeff