Historic Documents & Reference Material
Governance Documents
Committee Charters of the Yale Corporation:
Miscellaneous Regulations of the Yale Corporation
Selected Documents & Reports
Computing
Computer-Based Accounting System, Yale University, 1969
Information Technology: Beyond the Campus Network: Desktop Computers and Support, Report of the Advisory Committee on Information Technology, May 22, 1996
Engineering
Engineering Education at Yale University, Report of the Committee for the Study of Engineering Education, October 23, 1961, Barnett Dodge, Chairman
Engineering Education and Research at Yale, March 21, 1981
Faculty of Arts and Sciences & General Educational Strategy
1828 Curriculum Report, “Reports on the Courses of Instruction in Yale College by a Committee of the Corporation and the Academical Faculty”
Report on University Reorganization, Committee on Educational Policy of the Yale Corporation, March 17, 1919
University Policies Applicable to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edgar S. Furniss, May 1, 1953
Proposed Alteration of the Way in which Appointments are made to the Faculty of Yale College and to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Kingman Brewster, Jr., Provost, October 12, 1961
Report to the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Ad Hoc Committee on Policies and Procedures on Tenure Appointments, Robert A. Dahl, Chairman, June 15, 1965
A Proposal for the Creation of an Institute of Social Science, June 10, 1968
Report on Division of Biological Sciences, J. Murdoch Ritchie, February 1976
Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Appointments, James Tobin, Chairman, October 5, 1981
Building on Strength: An Academic Strategy for Yale University, Frank M. Turner, Provost, November 1, 1990
Report of the Committee on Restructuring the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, January 15, 1992
Report on Yale College Education 2003, Richard Brodhead, Chair, April 3, 2003
The Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Appointments Policy Committee, Jon Butler and Peter Salovey, Co-chairs, February 5, 2007
Financial Situation
Achieving Financial Equilibrium at Yale: A Report on the Budget, December 1977
Report of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty of Yale College and the Graduate School, T. Paul Schultz, Chairman, February 1979
The Financial Situation of the University: A Statement to the Yale Community, Frank M. Turner, Provost, December 10, 1991
Freedom of Expression
Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression, C. Vann Woodward, Chairman, December 23, 1974
The Report of the Committee to Study Freedom of Expression at Yale, Robert K. Adair, Chairman, 1989
Governance
Student Disruption, A letter from John Perry Miller, Dean of the Graduate School, to Kingman Brewster, Jr., and President Brewster’s reply, April 1969
Final Report of Yale University Study Commission on Governance, Leon Lipson, Chairman, 1971
Report of the President’s Research Development Committee (President’s Committee), Frederic M. Richards, Chairman, June 3, 1981
Report of the Committee on Cooperative Research, Patents, and Licensing, Clement L. Markert, Chairman, November 28, 1983
Advice to Faculty of Yale University on External Consulting Activities, William D. Nordhaus, Provost, September 11, 1986
Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: The Report of an Ad Hoc Committee, D. Allan Bromley, Chairman, November 1988
Report of the Committee on Governance, Jerome Berson, Chair, May 6, 1993
Residential Colleges
Report on the Residential College Deanships, Charles A. Walker, Chairman, December 1974
Report of the Study Group to Consider New Residential Colleges, Joseph W. Gordon and William H. Sledge M.D., Co-chairs, and Penelope Laurans, Vice chair, February 2008
Yale to Establish Two New Residential Colleges, Richard C. Levin, President, June 7, 2008
Retirement
Report of the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Retirement, Ellen Ryerson, Chairman, February 22, 1979
Report of the Retirement Working Group, Donald M. Crothers, Chair, April 7, 1993
Women, Minority, Disabled (Affirmative Action)
Report of the Committee to Recommend Procedures Concerning the Recruitment of Qualified Women, Ellen A. Peters, Chair, November 29, 1971
The Admission of Women to Yale College, Mary Arnstein, 1974
Report of the Committee to review the Status of Minority Students in Yale College, Robert A. Dahl, Chairman, 1977
Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee on the Education of Women, Donald Crothers, Chairman, April 1984
Recruitment and Retention of Minority Group Members on the Faculty at Yale, Judith Rodin, Chairman, May 16, 1989
First Report of the President’s Committee to Monitor the Recruitment and Retention of Disabled, Minority, and Women Faculty, Gerald D. Jaynes, Chairman, Spring 1991
Yale College & the Graduate School
Report of the President’s Committee on Freshman Year, Leonard W. Doob, Chairman, April 13, 1962
Yale College Program of Study, 1966, New text written by Edmund S. Morgan in discussing course of study choices
Letter from Kingman Brewster, Jr. to John Muyskens re Admissions, March 15, 1967
New Graduate Programs in the Humanities: A Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Graduate School, A. Dwight Culler, Chairman, December 5, 1968
Report of the Committee on the Future of the College and the Graduate School, John M. Blum, Chairman, December 11, 1972
Yale Athletics, A. Bartlett Giamatti, AYA Speech, 1980-81
Report of an Ad Hoc Committee on the Yale College Executive Committee, Frank M. Turner, Chairman, February 1984
Report of Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching in Yale College, Jules D. Prown, Chairman, April 25, 1989
Yale & the World
The Internationalization of Yale: 2005–2008 The Emerging Framework, Richard C. Levin and Linda Koch Lorimer, December 2005
The Internationalization of Yale: Progress Report, 2005-2008, March 2009
The Internationalization of Yale: 2009-2012 The Framework, Linda Koch Lorimer and Donald L. Filer, Fall 2009
The Internationalization of Yale: Progress Report, 2009–2012, Linda Koch Lorimer and Donald L. Filer, May 2013
Professional Schools
History of Yale Divinity School
History of the Yale School of Medicine
Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale: A Yale Tercentennial Exhibit, 2001
Selected Readings & Web Sites
Yale Institutional Self-Study Report, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, September 2009