Yale University
PA-7: Support for Underrepresented Groups

Yale University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and affirmatively seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons of diverse backgrounds.
https://www.yale.edu/nondiscrimination

Any student, employee, or applicant for programs or employment at Yale who is concerned about affirmative action, equal opportunity, sexual harassment, racial harassment, or fairness in admissions or employment at Yale, either in a general sense or with respect to his or her own situation, is encouraged to contact the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs. Talking about a problem with a member of the Office is not a part of any formal grievance procedure. However, the Director can investigate a situation and help to resolve it informally. The Office also informs individuals about the availability of the University’s grievance procedures for students and employees. In cases where the individual is not within a group of persons to which a formal grievance procedure applies, the Office will review a complaint. All inquiries are treated in a confidential manner.
In addition to a discrimination and harassment resources website and app, Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and our professional schools all have dedicated point-persons, called dean’s designees, to whom students may express their concerns about any form of discrimination and harassment.

Faculty, staff, and students have been disciplined in various ways. People have been suspended, terminated, required to abide by no-contact orders, etc.

STUDENTS: The Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity is committed to building and maintaining a supportive Yale community where students from diverse backgrounds and experiences are supported in their professional, social, and intellectual goals and pursuits. Retention and recruitment efforts to underrepresented groups can be found here: https://gsas.yale.edu/diversity/prospective-students
STAFF: The initiatives have been taken by the HR staffing team;
o Partner with the Yale affinity groups to promote job opportunities and assist with recruitment
o Have a presence at job fairs, whose primary audience includes underrepresented populations (i.e. Veterans)
o Formulation of a Disability affinity group to assist with recruitment of persons with disabilities
o Solicit speaking engagement opportunities to promote job opportunities at Yale University
o Create partnerships with local and national organizations that support underrepresented groups (NAACP, National Society of Hispanic MBA’s, National Black Social Workers, Veteran Associations, etc.)
o Creation of a Speakers Bureau – staff willing to go to schools, churches, conferences, meetings to discuss job opportunities at Yale
o New Haven Hiring Initiative
o New Haven Promise Program

FACULTY:
The initiatives have been taken by the HR staffing team;
o Partner with the Yale affinity groups to promote job opportunities and assist with recruitment
o Have a presence at job fairs, whose primary audience includes underrepresented populations (i.e. Veterans)
o Formulation of a Disability affinity group to assist with recruitment of persons with disabilities
o Solicit speaking engagement opportunities to promote job opportunities at Yale University
o Create partnerships with local and national organizations that support underrepresented groups (NAACP, National Society of Hispanic MBA’s, National Black Social Workers, Veteran Associations, etc.)
o Creation of a Speakers Bureau – staff willing to go to schools, churches, conferences, meetings to discuss job opportunities at Yale
o New Haven Hiring Initiative
o New Haven Promise Program

STUDENTS: Belonging at Yale outlines the many programs and resources available to support students, staff and/or faculty from underrepresented groups.
https://belong.yale.edu/get-support

STAFF: Yale's Affinity Groups are open to all employees and provide support and representation to underrepresented groups.
https://your.yale.edu/community/diversity-inclusion/affinity-groups
https://belong.yale.edu/get-support

FACULTY:Faculty at Yale have access to Faculty Development and Diversity Resources for All Faculty, as well as specific resources identified for Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
https://belong.yale.edu/get-support
https://faculty.yale.edu/
https://fas.yale.edu/faculty-resources/diversity-and-faculty-development

The Edward A. Bouchet Fellowship Program is named in honor of Yale’s first African-American graduate and the first African-American in the United States to earn a PhD. The Bouchet Fellowship is designed to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will pursue PhDs and subsequent careers in academia.
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/student-services/funding-opportunities/edward-bouchet-undergraduate-fellowship-program

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program is named after Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, educator, college president, and civil rights activist and underwritten by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This competitive program is designed to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will purse PhDs and subsequent careers in academia in selected core fields in the Arts and Sciences. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens.
http://yalecollege.yale.edu/student-services/funding-opportunities/mellon-mays-undergraduate-fellowship-program.

Yale's Center for Teaching and Learning offers pedagogy training for graduate students that takes diversity and inclusion as central tenets of good teaching, and promotes those values among all graduate student teachers. For all graduate students, the CTL offers a suite of workshops to prepare them for teaching. These total about 100 workshops per year and encompass a wide range of topics, from Delivering a Lecture, to Active Learning, to Inclusive Teaching. We also offer the Certificate in College Teaching Preparation (CCTP), a certificate that requires about 50 hours of teacher training (including taking workshops, being observed teaching, preparing a syllabus, and joining a learning community) and culminates in a notation on the graduate student's transcript. For details, please navigate to this page: https://ctl.yale.edu/teaching/professional-development/certificate-college-teaching-preparation. This support for teaching is available to all graduate students, including those from underrepresented groups.
We do, though, offer particular topics in these workshops that highlight issues of special concern to underrepresented groups. Here are some examples: "Difficult Conversations in the Classroom (race & ethnicity, gender, religion, politics)," "Teaching First-Generation and Nontraditional Students," "The Fundamentals of Inclusive Teaching," and "Inclusive Assessment." Although these workshops focus on how to manage diversity and inclusion among undergraduate students, some of the graduate student participants in the workshops may identify with one or more of the underrepresented categories (being a URM or First-Gen graduate student, for example), and these workshops address the complex question of how such a graduate student teacher might be a role model for students from underrepresented groups.