This message encourages instructors to provide mid-semester feedback on student work and to record and back up all current grades.

If you are teaching in Yale College in Spring 2025, please make sure that your Expanded Course Description is posted to Canvas no later than October 29, 2024, so that students can register for their Spring 2025 courses. The registration timeline for Spring 2025 courses can be found below.

This message lists the 2024-25 FAS department and program chairs and provides links to additional information about these colleagues. A list of SEAS chairs is also included.

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 September 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.

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 the Joint Boards of Permanent Officers for the 2024-2025 academic year, and reminds faculty of dates that are being held for meetings of the FAS/SEAS Faculty Senate.

This message offers guidance on the FAS ladder search process for 2024-25 academic year.

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.

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.

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.

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.