Faculty Committee on Athletics

Discuss and provide input to the president and athletic director on issues relating to athletics at Yale

Committee Members


Thomas Near (Chair)
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Bingham Oceanographic Curator of Ichthyology, Peabody Museum of Natural History; Head of College - Saybrook College


Murphy Temple (Secretary)
Residential College Dean, Ezra Stiles College


Jasmina Besirevic Regan
Associate Dean for Graduate Education; Lecturer, Sociology and Ethics, Politics & Economics


Melanie Boyd
Yale College Dean of Student Affairs; Senior Associate Dean of Yale College


Victoria Chun
Thomas A. Beckett Director of Athletics


Tycie Coppett
Residential College Dean, Silliman College


Sarah Demers
Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics


Sydney Feeney
Assistant Director, Afro-American Cultural Center


Andrew Forsyth
Associate Dean and Chief of Staff (Yale College)


Ann-Marie Guglieri
Executive Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer of Athletics


Michael Hoepp
Assistant to the President


Burgwell Howard
Senior Associate Dean of Yale College; Associate Vice President of Student Life


Maxwell Laurans
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Chief and Director, Perioperative Services


Penelope Laurans
Senior Advisor to the President


George Levesque
Associate Dean, Yale College; Dean of Academic Programs, Yale College; Director of Undergrad Studies, First-Year Seminar Program; Lecturer in History


Pericles Lewis
Dean of Yale College and Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature


Pilar Montalvo
Assistant Vice President for University Life


Alexander Rosas
Dean of Pauli Murray College


Jason Strong
Senior Associate Director, Compliance & Student-Athlete Development


J. Lloyd Suttle
Vice Provost for Academic Resources


Helen Tan
YC ‘25 (Fencing)


Rebecca Toseland
Senior Lecturer, Director of Research Support Tobin Center for Economic Policy


Paul Turner
Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology


Joseph Wolenski
Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology


Mila Yarich
YC ‘25 (Volleyball)