If you are teaching in Yale College in Spring 2023, please make sure that your Expanded Course Description is posted in Canvas no later than October 31, 2022 so that students can register for their Spring 2023 courses. The registration timeline for Spring 2023 courses can be found below.

This message lists the FAS department and program chairs for 2022-2023 and provides links to additional information about these colleagues.

New campus-wide masking guidance goes into effect on September 26, 2022. This guidance includes a new policy on masking in classrooms and instructional spaces. Effective September 26, 2022, masking in classrooms and instructional spaces will no longer be mandatory. However, any leader of a class meeting or section may require masking as a condition for participation.

This message encourages care, compassion, and flexibility during the fall 2022 term. The message outlines the processes by which faculty may request workplace accommodations or make short-term remote arrangements, it encourages faculty to accommodate students who may need to be absent, and it links to Poorvu Center resources on flexibility in course design.

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 2022-23 academic year, and reminds faculty of dates that are being held for meetings of the FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate.

This message outlines policies and guidance regarding hybrid work for staff in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This guidance is in effect August 1, 2022 - December 22, 2022. Guidance for the spring 2023 term will be provided prior to the winter recess.

This message reminds faculty that teaching during the 2022-2023 academic year will, with rare exceptions, take place in person. Faculty, teaching fellows, and students will be expected to engage in their teaching and learning activities on campus, in person, in New Haven. The message outlines expectations for teaching fellows and the processes by which faculty may request workplace accommodations or short-term remote arrangements.

This message announces the appointment of Larry Gladney as FAS Dean of Science. I am grateful for the leadership of current Dean of Science Jeffrey Brock, who will now assume a full-time role as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and to the members of the FAS Science Dean Search Advisory Committee for their consultation and advice.

This message announces the appointment of Ken Scheve as FAS Dean of Social Science. I am grateful to current Acting Dean of Social Science Steven Wilkinson and to former FAS Dean of Social Science Alan Gerber for their leadership, and to the members of the FAS Social Science Dean Search Advisory Committee for their consultation and advice.

Faculty may accommodate students who are in isolation housing and unable to write an in-person final examination at the scheduled time by offering an alternative assessment, remote exam, or a make-up exam at a later date.