I’m filled with gratitude as I step into the role to lead this university, knowing firsthand the opportunity for learning it provides to students and the impact it has on millions of people around the world through life-changing scholarship and research.
— Maurie McInnis, Yale University President
Yale’s mission is to improve the world today and for future generations through outstanding research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
The university’s mission calls each member of the Yale community to explore the world in all its vast complexity—and to create knowledge that benefits humanity. The stakes for this work could not be higher: the country and the world need the very best from Yale—right now.
President Maurie McInnis has spent three decades in higher education, holding teaching, research, and administrator roles. For nearly two of those decades, she has held a range of leadership positions at three iconic universities.
