Committee on Institutional Voice

Yale President Maurie McInnis has formed a committee to examine when the university, or those speaking on its behalf, should comment on matters of public significance, weighing the value that Yale places on engaging with the wider world as well as the university’s commitment to fostering an environment of diverse viewpoints and open dialogue and debate. The committee will complete its work by the end of the fall 2024 semester.

The committee is grateful to all those who attended listening sessions and provided their input through the online form, which stayed open until the end of the last listening session. 

Times and Locations of Listening Sessions

Faculty

  • September 19, 2024, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Hope Memorial Building, Room 110, 315 Cedar Street
  • September 20, 2024, 10:00 – 11:00 am, Beaumont Room, Second Floor, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street
  • September 25, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 pm, Osborn Memorial Labs (OML), Room 202, 165 Prospect Street
  • September 25, 2024, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, Room 114, 1 Prospect Street

Staff

  • September 24, 2024, 2:30 – 3:30 pm, 53 Wall St. Auditorium
  • October 2, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 pm, Linsly-Chittenden 101, 63 High Street

Students

  • September 20, 2024, 10:00 – 11:00 am, Beaumont Room, Second Floor, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street
  • September 20, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, HQ L02, 320 York Street
  • September 24, 2024, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, OC Marsh Lecture Hall,  260 Whitney Avenue

West Campus Faculty, Students, and Staff

  • September 18, 2024, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Moore Classroom (YSN 11703/11701), 400 West Campus Drive

Committee Members


Michael Della Rocca (Co-Chair)
Sterling Professor of Philosophy


Cristina Rodríguez (Co-Chair)
Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law


Charles Ahn
John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics


Nita Ahuja
William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery


Kerwin Charles
Indra K. Nooyi Dean of the School of Management and Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management


Jennifer Herdt
Senior Associate Dean and Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Divinity and Professor of Religious Studies 


Stephen Pitti
Professor of History, of American Studies, and of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration 


Susan Sawyer
Senior Associate General Counsel (staff to the committee)