Historic Documents & Reference Material
Governance Documents
- University Charter and Legislation: The Yale Corporation, New Haven, published by the University 1976
- By-Laws of the University
- Committee Charters of the Yale Corporation:
- Miscellaneous Regulations of the Yale Corporation
Selected Documents & Reports
Computing
- Computer-Based Accounting System, Yale University, 1969
- Information Technology: Beyond the Campus Network: Desktop Computers and Support, Report of the Advisory Committee on Information Technology, May 22, 1996
Engineering
- Engineering Education at Yale University, Report of the Committee for the Study of Engineering Education, October 23, 1961, Barnett Dodge, Chairman
- Engineering Education and Research at Yale, March 21, 1981
Faculty of Arts and Sciences & General Educational Strategy
- 1828 Curriculum Report, “Reports on the Courses of Instruction in Yale College by a Committee of the Corporation and the Academical Faculty”
- Report on University Reorganization, Committee on Educational Policy of the Yale Corporation, March 17, 1919
- University Policies Applicable to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edgar S. Furniss, May 1, 1953
- Proposed Alteration of the Way in which Appointments are made to the Faculty of Yale College and to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Kingman Brewster, Jr., Provost, October 12, 1961
- Report to the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Ad Hoc Committee on Policies and Procedures on Tenure Appointments, Robert A. Dahl, Chairman, June 15, 1965
- A Proposal for the Creation of an Institute of Social Science, June 10, 1968
- Report on Division of Biological Sciences, J. Murdoch Ritchie, February 1976
- Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Appointments, James Tobin, Chairman, October 5, 1981
- Building on Strength: An Academic Strategy for Yale University, Frank M. Turner, Provost, November 1, 1990
- Report of the Committee on Restructuring the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, January 15, 1992
- Report on Yale College Education 2003, Richard Brodhead, Chair, April 3, 2003
- The Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Appointments Policy Committee, Jon Butler and Peter Salovey, Co-chairs, February 5, 2007
Financial Situation
- Achieving Financial Equilibrium at Yale: A Report on the Budget, December 1977
- Report of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty of Yale College and the Graduate School, T. Paul Schultz, Chairman, February 1979
- The Financial Situation of the University: A Statement to the Yale Community, Frank M. Turner, Provost, December 10, 1991
Freedom of Expression
- Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression, C. Vann Woodward, Chairman, December 23, 1974
- The Report of the Committee to Study Freedom of Expression at Yale, Robert K. Adair, Chairman, 1989
Governance
- Student Disruption, A letter from John Perry Miller, Dean of the Graduate School, to Kingman Brewster, Jr., and President Brewster's reply, April 1969
- Final Report of Yale University Study Commission on Governance, Leon Lipson, Chairman, 1971
- Report of the President's Research Development Committee (President's Committee), Frederic M. Richards, Chairman, June 3, 1981
- Report of the Committee on Cooperative Research, Patents, and Licensing, Clement L. Markert, Chairman, November 28, 1983
- Advice to Faculty of Yale University on External Consulting Activities, William D. Nordhaus, Provost, September 11, 1986
- Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: The Report of an Ad Hoc Committee, D. Allan Bromley, Chairman, November 1988
- Report of the Committee on Governance, Jerome Berson, Chair, May 6, 1993
Residential Colleges
- Report on the Residential College Deanships, Charles A. Walker, Chairman, December 1974
- Report of the Study Group to Consider New Residential Colleges, Joseph W. Gordon and William H. Sledge M.D., Co-chairs, and Penelope Laurans, Vice chair, February 2008
- Yale to Establish Two New Residential Colleges, Richard C. Levin, President, June 7, 2008
Retirement
- Report of the Provost's Advisory Committee on Retirement, Ellen Ryerson, Chairman, February 22, 1979
- Report of the Retirement Working Group, Donald M. Crothers, Chair, April 7, 1993
Women, Minority, Disabled (Affirmative Action)
- Report of the Committee to Recommend Procedures Concerning the Recruitment of Qualified Women, Ellen A. Peters, Chair, November 29, 1971
- The Admission of Women to Yale College, Mary Arnstein, 1974
- Report of the Committee to review the Status of Minority Students in Yale College, Robert A. Dahl, Chairman, 1977
- Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee on the Education of Women, Donald Crothers, Chairman, April 1984
- Recruitment and Retention of Minority Group Members on the Faculty at Yale, Judith Rodin, Chairman, May 16, 1989
- First Report of the President's Committee to Monitor the Recruitment and Retention of Disabled, Minority, and Women Faculty, Gerald D. Jaynes, Chairman, Spring 1991
Yale College & the Graduate School
- Report of the President's Committee on Freshman Year, Leonard W. Doob, Chairman, April 13, 1962
- Yale College Program of Study, 1966, New text written by Edmund S. Morgan in discussing course of study choices
- Letter from Kingman Brewster, Jr. to John Muyskens re Admissions, March 15, 1967
- New Graduate Programs in the Humanities: A Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Graduate School, A. Dwight Culler, Chairman, December 5, 1968
- Report of the Committee on the Future of the College and the Graduate School, John M. Blum, Chairman, December 11, 1972
- Yale Athletics, A. Bartlett Giamatti, AYA Speech, 1980-81
- Report of an Ad Hoc Committee on the Yale College Executive Committee, Frank M. Turner, Chairman, February 1984
- Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching in Yale College, Jules D. Prown, Chairman, April 25, 1989
Yale and the World
- The Internationalization of Yale: 2005–2008 The Emerging Framework, Richard C. Levin and Linda Koch Lorimer, December 2005
Professional Schools
- History of Yale Divinity School
- History of Yale Law School
- History of the Yale School of Medicine
- Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale: A Yale Tercentennial Exhibit, 2001
