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.

Assistant professors and associate professors on term governed by FASTAP 2007 may be eligible for a one-year leave at full salary while appointed in each rank. The details of leave eligibility and the procedure and updated schedule for leave applications are outlined below. To begin the application process, eligible faculty should submit their CV and leave proposal to their department/program.

Assistant professors governed by FASTAP 2016 may be eligible for three semesters of leave at full salary. The details of leave eligibility and the procedure and updated schedule for leave applications are outlined below. To begin the application process, eligible faculty should submit their CV and leave proposal to their department/program.

Eligible full-time instructional faculty on multiyear appointments are invited to apply for Professional Development Leave (PDL). The application process is outlined below. To begin the application process, eligible faculty should submit their CV and leave proposal to their department/program.

This memo outlines updated timeline and process for non-tenured ladder and instructional faculty leave applications for the 2025-26 academic year or the 2026 calendar year. Faculty members who submit a leave proposal before September 27, 2024, will receive a decision by January 2025. Faculty members who submit proposals between September 27 and November 8 will receive decisions on a rolling basis. Next academic year, the deadline for all leave proposals will be in September.

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.