IV.A   General

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into departments and interdisciplinary programs with limited powers of appointment. Each department and most programs are assigned to one of four divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering. Each division has a director appointed by the President who serves as chair of one of four divisional advisory committees. The members of the divisional committees, also appointed by the President, are full professors drawn from the departments in that division. These committees have two related functions. They meet regularly with chairs of departments and programs or among themselves in order to provide advice to the deans, the Provost, and the Steering Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences about the quality and effectiveness, as well as the appointments needs, of the departments and programs in their division. They also meet, in this case chaired by a dean and including a representative from a department outside the division, to act as the Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee for their division.

Many of the responsibilities carried out in other institutions by a dean of the faculty or a dean of arts and sciences are at Yale divided among the Dean of Yale College, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and the Provost. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, composed of the President, the Provost, and the Deans of Yale College, the Graduate School, and the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is the final authority for all matters of policy. The responsibility for allocating faculty resources resides with the Provost, who chairs a committee called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee, which includes the Deans of Yale College, the Graduate School, the School of Engineering & Applied Science, the Vice President of West Campus Planning and Program Development, and appropriate deputy, associate, and assistant provosts. With respect to the appointments process, each of the deans accepts responsibility for a group of the departments and monitors the search and appointment process by which faculty positions in those departments are filled, from advertisement to final approval of the successful candidate.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into departments and interdisciplinary programs with limited powers of appointment. Each department and most programs are assigned to one of four divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering. Each division has a director appointed by the President who serves as chair of one of four divisional advisory committees. The members of the divisional committees, also appointed by the President, are full professors drawn from the departments in that division. These committees have two related functions. They meet regularly with chairs of departments and programs or among themselves in order to provide advice to the deans, the Provost, and the Steering Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences about the quality and effectiveness, as well as the appointments needs, of the departments and programs in their division. They also meet, in this case chaired by a dean and including a representative from a department outside the division, to act as the Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee for their division.

Many of the responsibilities carried out in other institutions by a dean of the faculty or a dean of arts and sciences are at Yale divided among the Dean of Yale College, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and the Provost. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, composed of the President, the Provost, and the Deans of Yale College, the Graduate School, and the School of Engineering and & Applied Science, is the final authority for all matters of policy. The responsibility for allocating faculty resources resides with the Provost, who chairs a committee called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee, which includes the Deans of Yale College, the Graduate School, the School of Engineering and & Applied Science, the Vice President of West Campus Planning and Program Development, and appropriate deputy provosts, associate, and assistant provosts. With respect to the appointments process, each of the deans accepts responsibility for a group of the departments and monitors the search and appointment process by which faculty positions in those departments are filled, from advertisement to final approval of the successful candidate.