Fall Calendar Announcement

Office of the Provost reprinted

Summary:

Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will begin classes Baronial 31 and end Dec 4.  The semester will cease Dec 18.

Regardless of whether Yale College is in residence from Baronial 31 to November 20, all postal service-Thanksgiving activities, including the final week of instruction, reading flow, and final test period volition be online.

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

Dear Members of the Yale Community,

Two weeks ago, I wrote to inform you that Yale would begin fall semester on time and that we are reactivating some inquiry on campus this summer. Since and then, we accept continued to monitor current public health information and reviewed guidance issued by the State of Connecticut.  Fortunately, the incidence of COVID-19 hospitalizations in our area has continued to fall for several weeks.  The land began Phase 1 of business reopening on May twenty and Stage two is currently scheduled to begin on June xx.  In accordance with the country'southward Reopen Connecticut initiative and the guidelines recommended by Yale's Public Health Committee, Yale will brainstorm Phase ane of research reactivation on June 1.

With the help of the dedicated members of the Yale community who serve on the university's COVID-19 Contingency Planning Committees, nosotros are developing scenarios for how the university will provide an exceptional didactics to our students this fall.  The scenarios nether consideration include online, residential, and hybrid models of instruction.  The Academic Continuity Committee and the Academy Calendar Committee recommended that the fall semester 2020 should begin at the end of August, regardless of whether students are in residence or taking classes remotely.  To maximize the possibility that we can hold classes in person this fall, today nosotros are announcing revisions to the fall semester bookish agenda for Yale College, the Graduate Schoolhouse of Arts and Sciences, and several of the professional schools.

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

The new calendar for Yale Higher is available here.

Key dates are:

August 24-28 Move-in, if in residence; Graduate Schoolhouse orientation
August 31 Classes Offset
November 21-29 November suspension
November 30-December iv Last calendar week of classes online
Dec 7-10 Online reading period
December 11-18 Online final exam period

Most professional school programs will as well offset in tardily August.  The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will follow the Yale College agenda, and its own deadlines and dates volition exist published soon.  The Schools of Art, Divinity, Drama, the Surround, Music, Nursing, and Public Health will besides begin the week of August 31, while the Schools of Constabulary, Management, and Medicine will begin earlier in August.

President Salovey will denote the style of instruction (residential, on-line only, or hybrid) for the fall semester in early July.  In the meantime, we continue to establish policies and procedures that volition aid us move forrard once his decision is announced.  For case, terminal week we initiated a voluntary and free COVID-19 virus screening program that is currently available for faculty, staff, and trainees who are returning to campus as part of Phase 1 of the research reactivation process.  This volition serve as a pilot for the more extensive viral screening that we volition be doing if students return to campus.   We are too developing procedures for contact-tracing, revised dining and classroom-use patterns, and policies for social distancing and mask-wearing.  Revising the fall academic calendar is one of many steps we are taking to ready for an eventual return to in-person didactics.

Your resilience, inventiveness, and grit during this challenging time have been exemplary.  As our community makes plans for the fall, we will be counting on each other to limit the spread of COVID-19. I thank 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