November 10, 2015

To the Yale Community:

Recent on-campus events and related discussions between students and administrators highlight the longstanding and institutionalized inequalities that exist at our university. This history and its complex legacies will only be dispelled by critique, social commitment, and hard work at many levels of policy and practice. Calls for greater diversity do not by themselves resolve the experience of racism and devaluation, and maintaining silence about racial inequality on campus only exacerbates the problem. It is not for students alone to shoulder the many burdens of this work.

We, the undersigned members of the Yale faculty, affirm our commitment to creating an educational environment in which all students are able to thrive. We acknowledge that we have not yet collectively realized this central educational goal, nor have we fully recognized the vital contribution of faculty and students who are doing transformative scholarship on the histories and cultures of unrepresented and under-represented communities. We will continue to work with students, administrators, and our faculty colleagues to make Yale a place that respects and values all students and faculty of color.


****UPDATE: Please scroll to the bottom of the page to read a response from University and FAS leadership, dated November 14, 2015.****


Aaron Carico
Aaron Gerow
Adam Sexton
Adria Lawrence
Alan Plattus
Alanna Schepartz
Albert Laguna
Alejandra Dubcovsky
Alex Felson
Alice Chung
Alice M. Miller
Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Allan Dafoe
Almeda Wright
Amanda Behm
Amerigo Fabbri
Amity Doolittle
Amy Kapczynski
Ana De La O
Anahita Vossoughi
Andrew C. Johnston
Andrew Hamingson
Andrew March
Andrew McKendry
Andrew Szymkowiak
Andrew V. Papachristos
Anika Singh Lemar
Ann Ellis Hanson
Anna Zayaruznaya
Anne Eller
Anne Fadiman
Anne Tofflemire
Anne Underhill
Anoka Faruqee
Anthony Reed
Ardis Butterfield
Ariel Ron
Ayesha Ramachandran
Barbara Glauber
Barbara Stuart
Barry Nalebuff
Bella Grigoryan
Ben Cashore
Ben Glaser
Benjamin Chan
Beverly Gage
Bill Rankin
Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Bob Frank
Brad Gentry
Brad Rosen
Brent Howard
Briallen Hopper
Brian Walsh
Brian Wood
Britton Rogers
Caleb Smith
Carla Staver
Carol Carpenter
Carol Jacobs
Carolyn J. Dean
Carolyn J. Sharp
Carolyn Salas
Carroll L. Lucht
Catherine Nicholson
Catherine Sheehy
Chad Oliver
Charles Musser
Charles Schmuttenmaer
Chidubem Osuji
Chinedum Osuji
Chitra Ramalingam
Chris Kraus
Chris Lebron
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Christopher L. Miller
Chuanmei Sun
Claire Bowern
Clarence Hardy
Clarence Hardy
Claudia Valeggia
Constance Sherak
Corey O'Hern
Courtney Thompson
Craig Brodersen
Craig Crews
Crystal Feimster
Curran Hatleberg
Cynthia Horan
Cynthia Zarin
Cyra Levenson
Damian Doria
Damon Clark
Dan Harrison
Dan Michaelson
Dana Angluin
Daniel Botsman
Daniel Magaziner
Daniel Markovits
Daniela Cammack
Danya Keene
Daphne A. Brooks
David Bercovici
David C. Budries
David Cameron
David G Rand
David McCormick
David Post
David Rosen
David Simon
David Singh Grewal
David Sorkin
David Spatz
David Watts
Deb Margolin
Debra Fischer
Denise Y. Ho
Dirk Bergemann
Dixa Ramirez
Dolores Hayden
Douglas Kysar
Douglas McKee
Douglas Rogers
Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
Edward Rugemer
Eitan Hersh
Elihu Rubin
Elijah Anderson
Elijah Anderson
Elisabeth Wood
Eliyahu Stern
Elizabeth Alexander
Ellen Novack
Emily Coates
Emily Erikson
Emily Greenwood
Erica James
Erik Harms
Erika Christakis
Erol Fikrig
Fiona Doherty
Frances Rosenbluth
Francesca Trivellato
Francoise Schneider
Frank Griffel
Frank Keil
Frederick Wherry
Fuyang Peng
Gaboury Benoit
Gary Tomlinson
Geetanjali S. Chanda
George Chauncey
George Syrimis
Gerald Jaynes
Gil Joseph
Glenda Gilmore
Gordon Geballe
Gordon Rogoff
Gregg Zuckerman
Gregory McCarthy
Gregory Samanez-Larkin
Greta LaFleur
Gretchen Berland
Hannan Hever
Hans Leaman
Hari Deshpande
Harold Hongju Koh
Harvey Weiss
Hazel V. Carby
Heather Gerken
Heather McKendry
Hector Arce
Hee Oh
Helen Caines
Helen Siu
Henry Cowles
Henry Parkes
Holly Rushmeier
Howard Forman
Ian Cornelius
Ian Quinn
Ilia Smilga
Inderpal Grewal
Irene Peirano Garrison
Irina Dolgova
Isaac Nakhimovsky
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Ivan Bozovic
Jack Harris
Jacob Hacker
Jacqueline Goldsby
Jaehong Kim
Jaime Napier
James Berger
James Bundy
James Forman Jr.
James Mountcastle
James Scott
James Silk
Jan L. Hagens
Janna Ellis
Jason Stanley
Jean Koh Peters
Jean-Christophe Agnew
Jeffrey Alexander
Jeffrey Kenney
Jenifer Van Vleck
Jennifer Herdt
Jennifer Kiger
Jennifer Klein
Jennifer L. Allen
Jessica Brantley
Jessica Helfand
Jessica Wolf
Jessie Royce Hill
Jill Campbell
Jill Richards
JL Pottenger, Jr
Joan Channick
Joan MacIntosh
Joanna Radin
Joanne Freeman
Joanne Meyerowitz
Joe Manning
Joel Baden
Johannes DeYoung
Johannes DeYoung
John E. Roemer
John Fabian Witt
John Grim
John Hall
John Harley Warner
John Harris
John MacKay
John Pachankis
John Pittard
John Rogers
John Williams
Jon Andrews
Jonathan Kramnick
Jonathan Weinberg
Jonathan Wyrtzen
Joseph Errington
Joseph Fischel
Joseph North
Joseph Wolenski
Julia Adams
Julia Kim-Cohen
Julia Stephens
Julian Bittiner
Julian Gilbert-Davis
Julie Dorsey
Justin Farrell
Justin Neuman
Jutta Joormann
K Sivaramakrishnan
Ka-Man Tse
Karen Nakamura
Karen Wynn
Karin Gosselink
Karin Roffman
Karuna Mantena
Kate Baldwin
Katerina Clark
Kathryn Dudley
Kathryn Lofton
Kathryn Miller-Jensen
Kathryn Slanski
Kathryn Tanner
Katie Trumpener
Katja Lindskog
Kelly Rader
Kenneth Nelson
Kenneth Winkler
Kirk Freudenburg
Kishwar Rizvi
Kristi Lockhart
Langdon Hammer
Langdon Hammer
Larry Davidson
Laura Barraclough
Laura Wexler
Laurie Santos
Lawrence Staib
Leslie Brisman
Leslie Harkema
Linda Puth
Ling Mu
Linn Tonstad
Lisa Kereszi
Liz Diamond
Liza Comita
Lizzy Carroll
Lloyd Grieger
Louisa Lombard
Louise Edwards
Lourdes Sabé
Mahesh Balakrishnan
Marc Hammarlund
Marc Lapadula
Marc Robinson
Marcela Echeverri
Marcia C. Inhorn
Marcia Johnson
Margaret Clark
Margaret Homans
Margaret Olin
Margaret Peters
Margaret Spillane
Mari Stever
María M Piñango
Maria Moreno
Marianne LaFrance
Marijeta Bozovic
Mark Ashton
Mark Mooseker
Marla Geha
Marta Figlerowicz
Marta Wells
Marvin M. Chun
Mary Beth Decker
Mary Lui
Matt Welander
Matthew Adam Kocher
Matthew Croasmun
Matthew Jacobson
Matthew Simon
Matthew Suttor
Maurice Samuels
May Adrales
Meg Urry
Melinda Ring
Michael Cunningham
Michael Della Rocca
Michael Denning
Michael Faison
Michael Frame
Michael J. Fischer
Michael Korie
Michael Loewenberg
Michael Magee
Michael Queenland
Michael R. Dove
Michael Reed-Hurtado
Michael Rigsby
Michael Warner
Michael Wishnie
Michal Beth Dinkler
Michelle Lopez
Milette Gaifman
Millicent (Penny) Marcus
Mimi Yiengpruksawan
Miraj Desai
Miroslav Volf
Moira Fradinger
Molly Brunson
Muneer Ahmad
Nancy Levene
Naomi Rogers
Narges Erami
Natalie Westbrook
Nathan A. Roberts
Nathan Guevremont
Ned Cooke
Neil Mulligan
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicole Deziel
Nikhil Padmanabhan
Ninghui Liang
Noel Lenski
Noreen Khawaja
Nuno Monteiro
Oliver Baker
Oona Hathaway
Oswaldo Chinchilla
Pam Newton
Pamela Hovland
Paola Bertucci
Paul Bloom
Paul Kockelman
Paul North
Paul Sabin
Paul Tipton
Paul Turner
Paul Walsh
Paula Kavathas
Pauline LeVen
Pedro Barbeito
Peisong Xu
Peter Aronow
Peter Parker
Peter Raymond
Philip Gorski
Phyllis Granoff
Pieter van Dokkum
Raffaella Zanuttini
Randy King
Reina Maruyama
Rene Almeling
Richard Deming
Richard L Burger
Richard Prum
Richard Rose
Robert Dubrow
Robert Nelson
Robert Zinn
Rochelle Feinstein
Rohit De
Ron Eyerman
Rona Ramos
Ronald Gregg
Rongzhen Li
Rosie Bsheer
Ruth G Koizim
Ryan T. Bennett
Ryan Wepler
Sally Promey
Sam Messer
Sarah Demers
Scott Shapiro
Sebastian Ruth
Sebastian Zeidler
Seyla Benhabib
Sharon Oster
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Shelley Geballe
Shifra Sharlin
Shimon Anisfeld
Shiri Goren
Sigrun Kahl
Simon Mochrie
Simon Queenborough
Sonia Valle
Sophia Rosenfeld
Soumia Koundi
Stefanie Markovits
Stephanie Newell
Stephen Brown-Fried
Stephen C. Stearns
Stephen Darwall
Stephen J. Davis
Stephen Pitti
Stephen Wizner
Steve Chang
Steven Berry
Steven Fraade
Steven Frankel
Steven Keith Lamoreaux
Stuart Semmel
Sunny Xiang
Surjit K. Chandhoke
Susan Byrne
Susan Hyde
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Stokes
Sybil Alexandrov
Tariq Thachil
Teresa Berger
Terry Seymour
Thania Sanchez
Thomas Brown
Thomas C. Connolly
Thomas J. Near
Tim Kreiner
Tim Robinson
Timothy G Gregoire
Timothy Newhouse
Tina Lu
Tisa Wenger
Tom Sellar
Tom Tyler
Tony Koleske
Trace Kershaw
Tracey Meares
Tyrone Cannon
Valerie Horsley
Vanessa Agard-Jones
Verity Harte
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Vesla Weaver
Victor Bers
Victoria Nolan
Vida Maralani
Vivian Irish
Wai Chee Dimock
Walton Wilson
Wendall Harrington
William Honeychurch
William Kelly
William van Altena
William Villalongo
William Yu Zhou
Woo-kyoung Ahn
Yair Minsky
Yarrow Dunham
Yeju Choi
Youn-mi Kim
Yu-lin Wang-Saussy
Zareena Grewal
Zhong Shao






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Response from University and FAS leadership:

November 14, 2015

Dear Colleagues,

We are grateful to you for this message, and for the commitments that it embodies.

We share your commitment to creating an educational environment in which all students are able to thrive, and we agree that we have not yet realized this central goal.  We look forward to working with faculty and students to make Yale a place that respects and values all students and faculty of color. We admire the contributions of faculty and students who are doing transformative scholarship on the histories and cultures of unrepresented and under-represented communities, and we are looking forward to collaborating closely with faculty colleagues in our ongoing fulfillment of this key institutional mission.

Yours,

Amy Hungerford, Divisional Director, Humanities
Alan Gerber, Divisional Director, Social Sciences
Ben Polak, Provost
Dan DiMaio, Chair, Biological Sciences Advisory Committee
Jack Dovidio, Dean of Academic Affairs, FAS
Jonathan Holloway, Dean, Yale College
Kyle Vanderlick, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Lynn Cooley, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Peter Salovey, President
Scott Miller, Divisional Director, Sciences
Tamar Gendler, Dean, FAS
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