Save the dates: provisional 2026-27 faculty meeting schedule

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 Chair's Assistants

Dear FAS and SEAS faculty, 

By longstanding tradition, Thursday afternoons from 4–6 pm 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 Boards 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.

The meetings listed below take place on Thursdays between 4–6 pm, unless otherwise noted. 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.

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:

• September 17, 2026 (informal discussion of assessment policies)
• October 1, 2026
• November 12, 2026
• December 3, 2026
• March 4, 2027
• April 1, 2027
• May 6, 2027
• May 21, 2027 (Friday Commencement meeting) 

Faculty Meetings 

Ladder faculty with primary or fully-joint appointments in departments or programs 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, Steven Wilkinson, and/or the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Jeffrey Brock, as relevant.

While we ask that you hold these dates in the event that we need to call a meeting of the faculty, we expect that meetings will not be held on the majority of these dates.

Faculty Meetings may be scheduled on the following dates:

• September 3, 2026
• September 24, 2026
• October 8, 2026
• October 22, 2026  
• November 5, 2026  
• January 21, 2027  
• February 18, 2027
• March 25, 2027
• April 29, 2027 

Joint Boards 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 Boards 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, Steven Wilkinson, 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 10, 2026
• January 28, 2027
• February 25, 2027
• April 8, 2027
• May 13, 2027 

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, Michael Farina.

Please note that FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate meetings will begin at 3:30 pm.

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

• September 10, 2026 (closed meeting)
• October 15, 2026
• November 19, 2026
• December 15, 2026 (NB: This meeting is on a Tuesday)  
• January 20, 2027 (NB: This meeting is on a Wednesday)
• February 16, 2027 (NB: This meeting is on a Tuesday)  
• March 3, 2027 (NB: This meeting is on a Wednesday)
• April 15, 2027
• May 4, 2027 (NB: This meeting is on a Tuesday. 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.

With gratitude and colleagueship,

Steven and Jeff

Steven Wilkinson
Dean
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Jeffrey Brock
Dean
School of Engineering & Applied Science