Autumn Calendar Announcement

Role of the Provost reprinted

Summary:

Yale College and the Graduate Schoolhouse of Arts and Sciences will brainstorm classes August 31 and end Dec 4.  The semester will stop December 18.

Regardless of whether Yale College is in residence from August 31 to Nov xx, all post-Thanksgiving activities, including the terminal week of pedagogy, reading menses, and final exam menstruum volition exist online.

This is being washed to maximize the possibility of having students in residence this fall.

Beloved Members of the Yale Community,

Two weeks agone, I wrote to inform you that Yale would brainstorm fall semester on time and that we are reactivating some enquiry on campus this summer. Since then, we take connected to monitor electric current public health data and reviewed guidance issued by the Country of Connecticut.  Fortunately, the incidence of COVID-19 hospitalizations in our area has continued to fall for several weeks.  The state began Phase 1 of business reopening on May twenty and Phase 2 is currently scheduled to begin on June 20.  In accord with the land's Reopen Connecticut initiative and the guidelines recommended by Yale's Public Health Committee, Yale will begin Stage one of research reactivation on June one.

With the assist of the defended members of the Yale customs who serve on the academy'south COVID-19 Contingency Planning Committees, we are developing scenarios for how the university will provide an infrequent didactics to our students this fall.  The scenarios under consideration include online, residential, and hybrid models of instruction.  The Academic Continuity Committee and the University Calendar Committee recommended that the fall semester 2020 should begin at the terminate of Baronial, regardless of whether students are in residence or taking classes remotely.  To maximize the possibility that nosotros can hold classes in person this fall, today we are announcing revisions to the fall semester academic calendar for Yale Higher, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and several of the professional schools.

Classes in Yale Higher and the Graduate School will begin on Mon, August 31, 2 days before than originally scheduled, and cease on December 4.  In society to consummate as much of the semester before Thanksgiving as possible, we will not hold an October break.  If students are in residence, they will exist required to limit their travel to and from the New Haven area and to observe social distancing and other public health measures.  Whether or not Yale College is in residence from August 31 to November 20, the last week of instruction, reading menstruation, and final exam period volition be held online.  Dec will exist a "quiet period" on campus, with limited in-person activity.

The new calendar for Yale College is available here.

Cardinal dates are:

August 24-28 Move-in, if in residence; Graduate School orientation
August 31 Classes Outset
November 21-29 November pause
November 30-Dec 4 Last week of classes online
December 7-10 Online reading period
December 11-18 Online final exam period

Near professional person school programs will besides offset in late Baronial.  The Graduate Schoolhouse of Arts and Sciences volition follow the Yale College calendar, and its own deadlines and dates will exist published before long.  The Schools of Art, Divinity, Drama, the Environment, Music, Nursing, and Public Health will as well begin the week of Baronial 31, while the Schools of Law, Management, and Medicine will brainstorm before in August.

President Salovey will announce the way of education (residential, on-line merely, or hybrid) for the fall semester in early July.  In the meantime, we continue to institute policies and procedures that will help us move forward one time his decision is announced.  For instance, last calendar week we initiated a voluntary and free COVID-19 virus screening program that is currently bachelor for kinesthesia, staff, and trainees who are returning to campus as part of Stage 1 of the enquiry reactivation process.  This volition serve every bit a pilot for the more than extensive viral screening that we will exist doing if students render to campus.   We are also developing procedures for contact-tracing, revised dining and classroom-use patterns, and policies for social distancing and mask-wearing.  Revising the fall bookish calendar is one of many steps we are taking to prepare for an eventual return to in-person didactics.

Your resilience, creativity, and grit during this challenging time take been exemplary.  As our customs makes plans for the fall, we volition be counting on each other to limit the spread of COVID-nineteen. I give thanks all the members of the Contingency Planning Committees for their dedicated piece of work and recommendations.

Sincerely,

Scott Strobel, Ph.D.
Provost
Henry Ford 2 Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry