Ad Hoc Diversity Committee

FASS Ad Hoc Diversity Committee 2018/19

Chair: Matthew Jacobson, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and Professor of African American Studies and of History

Maureen Long, Geology & Geophysics
Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Ruth Koizim, Senior Lector and Language Program Director in French
Ruzica Piskac, Assistant Professor of Computer 

At the 2015 November 19th and December 17th meetings of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate, senators expressed broad support for Senate involvement in tackling challenges to diversity and inclusion in FAS.  Senators noted that successive initiatives to diversify the faculty and academic culture at Yale have gained ground and then floundered, and advocated for an informed and deliberate response to these challenges to avoid duplicating part efforts.  This ad hoc committee consulted widely to produce a report on the state of inclusion and diversity in FAS in the Senate’s first year, including a set of detailed recommendations.  That report continues to guide the committee’s work, in close consultation with the Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development.