Yale University announced earlier this month a $50 million plan to increase the diversity of faculty on campus.
“Yale’s education and research missions are propelled forward by a faculty that stands at the forefront of scholarship, research, practice, mentoring, and teaching. An excellent faculty in all of these dimensions is a diverse faculty, and that diversity must reach across the whole of Yale — to every school and to every department,” wrote President Peter Salovey and Provost Ben Polak in a Nov. 3 email to the university community.
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[UPDATE 11/17/15]: Click here for the official statement from Yale president, Peter Salovey.
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