Committee on Faculty Advancement

FASS Committee on Faculty Advancement 2018/19
 
Emily Erikson, Associate Professor, Sociology, Co-Chair
John Geanakoplos, James Tobin Professor of Economics, Co-Chair
 
R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor, French
Marijeta Bozovic, Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages
Alexandre Debs, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Maureen Long, Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Rajit Manohar, John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Ruzica Piskac, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
 
The Yale faculty is the University’s most important resource, doing the core creative work of the institution through teaching, research and scholarship. The international reputation and national rankings of the University rest on the innovation and the productivity of Yale faculty. Thus recruiting, retaining, and mentoring a world-class faculty are some of the University’s highest priorities. The committee will consider the various forms of support necessary to foster scholarly achievement at the highest levels, including (but not limited to) the size and quality of the faculty, research facilities, salaries, resources for teaching, technical and classroom support, the equitable distribution of faculty workloads, as well as the size and quality of the graduate program. It will also examine issues critical to faculty excellence in areas such as junior faculty mentoring, child-care services, parental support, mentoring and career development for women and under-represented minority faculty, dual-career considerations, retirement incentives, and revitalization of diversity initiatives. Finally, the committee will explore the historic role and current status of the FAS within the larger university community. In the spring of 2019, the committee released the Faculty Excellence Report, which assessed the current state of FAS support and development by administering and analyzing a survey of the faculty of the arts and sciences. The committee is currently engaged in following up on the areas of concern and improvement that emerged from the survey.