In the 11 years since this clown took over the tuition has gone up from $40,000 to $60,000 (over $80,000 if you include room/board). There are more administrators than faculty (5,066 to 4937). They have over 50 diversity officers on staff. Sadly this is pretty typical of the IVY and other colleges.
Is this a place for free exchange of ideas? Only if you're a progressive wokester, otherwise you better shut the f-ck up or face the wrath.
I hope this clown gets run over by a bus. Sorry, that was insensitive of me.
Yale President to Step Down After 11 Years as Leader
Peter Salovey is the latest of a number of high-profile college presidents to leave their posts
By Melissa Korn, WSJ
Aug. 31, 2023 10:24 am ET
Peter Salovey, president of Yale University, in 2015. PHOTO: BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS
Yale University president Peter Salovey is stepping down after 11 years at the helm of one of the nation’s most prestigious and wealthiest universities.
Salovey, 65 years old, said in an interview Thursday that he is eager to bring his career full-circle and return to a role teaching and researching in the university’s psychology department. The average tenure for a university president is 5.9 years, according to data from the American Council on Education.
He will leave the post in June.
Salovey’s is the latest in a string of big-name presidential departures in higher education. Harvard University, Columbia University and Dartmouth College all started this academic year with new leaders, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania gained new presidents during the prior school year. Stanford University is also looking for a new president, after its current leader resigned in July over concerns about research practices.
Under Salovey, Yale has surpassed the $5 billion mark of an expected $7 billion, five-year capital campaign, expanded its undergraduate student body by about 15%, made a push to enroll more low-income and first-generation college students and worked to improve ties with its host city, New Haven, Conn. The school’s endowment stood at $41.4 billion at the end of fiscal 2022, the latest figure available, putting it behind only Harvard and the University of Texas System, according to an annual tally by TIAA and the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The school also faced controversies over free speech, cultural sensitivity and student conduct—sparked by a debate over Halloween costumes. Its admissions practices and preferential treatment for recruited athletes were also under the microscope, as a former soccer coach was a key player in the Varsity Blues college admissions cheating scandal.
During Salovey’s tenure, Yale also grappled with its historical ties to slavery, in 2017 stripping the name of former U.S. vice president and ardent slavery supporter John C. Calhoun from one of its residential colleges, awarding the honor instead to computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper.
Salovey, a psychologist by training, arrived at Yale as a graduate student in 1981. He joined the faculty, ran the psychology department, became dean of the graduate school and then Yale College. He was later named provost, then became president in 2013.
The higher education landscape has changed dramatically since Salovey was elevated to president. The pandemic forced administrators to pivot quickly to online instruction and then navigate public health concerns alongside financial considerations as they brought students back to campus. Race relations and issues of free speech continue to be fraught on campuses. A Supreme Court ruling earlier this summer curtailed how schools are allowed to consider race in admission decisions. And faith in the value of a college degree has waned dramatically.
“Gaining back that trust, I think, is our obligation, and I want to see it happen,” Salovey said.
Salovey said a continuing challenge for the university, including for his successor, is how to work with a student population that has different expectations of the school’s role in their lives. “We wanted the institution to leave us alone, get a great education and do our thing,” Salovey said of his time as a student. “That is not the way college students think about the institution today.”
The Yale Corp., the school’s governing body, will begin looking for a replacement by bringing four faculty members onto the search committee and conducting listening sessions with the school community, said senior trustee Josh Bekenstein.
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