The university-wide academic priorities—formalized with input from the Yale community—guide strategic investment in areas that advance the university’s mission and build on its unique strengths. They help ensure the university maximally contributes to producing knowledge and improving the world.
These priorities align with President Peter Salovey’s vision for Yale’s future and the pillars of strategic emphasis therein. To learn more about these pillars, please visit the Office of the President’s University Initiatives site.
Several key reports—for example, from the Humanities Doctoral Education Advisory Working Group, the University-Wide Committee on Data-Intensive Social Science, and the University Science Strategy Committee (USSC)—chart clear paths forward for each of these areas. Compiled by teams of faculty and staff experts across campus, they provide important recommendations for elevating cross-disciplinary work at the university and producing an outsized impact on the world.
In addition to these and similar reports, there are a variety of historic and directive developments from around the university that embody Yale’s academic priorities. These are grouped below according to their respective disciplines:
Arts & Humanities
- LUX: Yale Collections Discovery
- Report of the Humanities Doctoral Education Advisory Working Group
- Humanities Quadrangle at 320 York Street
Multidisciplinary Social Science
- University-wide Committee on Data-Intensive Social Science Committee Report
- Tobin Center for Economic Policy
- Report of the Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Future of the Jackson Institute
Science & Engineering
- University Science Strategy Committee Report (June 2018)
- School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) Strategic Vision Final Report (August 2021) [Note: Yale netID and password required]
- Planetary Solutions Project Framework
- Neuroscience Working Group Report
- Physical Sciences and Engineering Building (PSEB) Working Groups Town Hall February 25, 2020
- Advanced Instrumentation Development Center (AIDC) Report
Progress made on academic and university priorities is highlighted on the Office of the President’s website. In addition, from 2017 to 2021, President Salovey and Provost Strobel issued written updates to the community:
Update - New Commitments to Mitigating Climate Change from June 24, 2021
Update on Academic Priorities from December 10, 2019
Update - Educational Excellence from May 9, 2019
Update on Academic Priorities Faculty Excellence from December 14, 2018
Update on Academic Priorities from March 1, 2018