![]() ![]() “The FAS Dean’s office has been working on precisely the issues raised in the report for the last five years, and will continue to do so.” “I am grateful to the committee and share their commitment to excell ence in the FAS faculty,” Gendler said. Still, she added that University President Peter Salovey’s academic priorities already reflect the University’s investment in the “arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences and engineering.” As examples, she cited the ongoing transformation of 320 York Street into a Humanities hub, the creation of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy intended to further Yale’s research in the field and the numerous ongoing investments in the science and engineering. In an email to the News, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler said that she and other administrators want the academics departments in the FAS to be “among the strongest in the world in their fields of study.” According to Nordhaus, the report is an “important piece of research.” The Senate report offers a variety of recommendations: it suggests that the University should dedicate an additional $40 million per year to increase faculty compensation that departments should be subject to external reviews and regular self-assessments and that the University should increase the number of FAS faculty members. … Yale, I believe, has become quite distracted and has not paid as much attention to Yale College and the FAS.” ![]() “The other universities have been quite aggressive. “The bottom line was quite disturbing that Yale has not kept up with the competition,” William Nordhaus, chair of the FAS Senate and economic professor, said. The report pointed to a decline in the number of FAS ladder faculty members from 688 in the 2010-2011 academic year to 658 in the 2017-2018 academic year, while the number of the FAS ladder faculty in peer institutions has grown. The survey found that many faculty members worry that their respective departments are not among the highest-ranked in the country and feel that the university is “too cautious in its spending,” despite boasting an impressive endowment, according to the report. The Senate’s Committee on Faculty Advancement drafted the recommendations based on the results of a faculty questionnaire, publicly available statistics and interviews with chairs of 12 of the largest FAS departments. The FAS Senate publicly released an abbreviated version of its Research and Scholarly Excellence Report last Wednesday. A recent report from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate called on the University to increase the amount of attention it pays and the resources it allocates to the FAS and Yale College. ![]()
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