Announcements & Memos
Announcements, memos, and updates on FAS policies and procedures
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Seven Yale faculty members have received 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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This message offers guidance on the FAS ladder search process for 2024-25 academic year.
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This message offers guidance on the FAS ladder search process for 2024-25 academic year.
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For Fall 2023 Course Evaluations, the mechanism that prevents students from viewing grades prior to submitting a course evaluation was out of operation for several weeks during December 2023 and January 2024. This was an error due to a technological failure and does not reflect a policy change. This message provides background on this incident, data on Fall 2023 evaluation response rates and average course ratings, and information on how any impact on faculty will be addressed.
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Effective immediately, the FAS timelines for ladder faculty reappointment/promotion reviews have been consolidated and updated so that all ranks and both FASTAP systems share the same deadlines. A new webpage outlines the new timelines and addresses frequently asked questions.
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This message announces Marc Robinson as FAS Dean of Humanities beginning July 1, 2024. I am grateful to current Dean of Humanities Kathryn Lofton for her leadership, and to the members of the FAS Humanities Dean Search Advisory Committee for their consultation and advice.
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This message outlines the responsibilities that all faculty members and Teaching Fellows (TFs), now part of the Local 33-UNITE HERE union, are expected to fulfill when they collaborate to teach. This memo contains new information as of January 2024; please read through the materials below so you are aware of current policies. You will find details on (1) in-person instruction, (2) responsibility for instruction, (3) course materials, (4) grading and examinations, and (5) professional development for TFs; there is also information about (6) part-time acting instructors.
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This message outlines the Faculty Activity Report submission process for FAS instructional faculty for 2023.
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This message outlines the Faculty Activity Report submission process for FAS ladder faculty for 2023.
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FAS and SEAS faculty are invited to submit proposals for cross-divisional, co-taught courses that bridge the humanities and sciences, broadly defined. Courses must be taught by teams of two ladder faculty members, each from a different academic division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Courses are to take place during the Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 academic terms. The deadline for proposals is December 11, 2023.