From the Yale Daily News: More than 120 students and alumni recently signed a letter addressed to Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis to express “deep concern” after film studies lecturer Shakti Bhagchandani told her students that Yale would not renew her contract due to budget tightening measures. German lecturer Austen Hinkley spoke to his 72-person “Marx, Nietzsche, Freud” lecture about his contract non-renewal, which he also said was impacted by budget cuts. Lecturer Matthew Morrison, who teaches a course in medicine and the humanities, wrote in an email to his former students that “Yale has, as yet, not renewed my contract for next year, conceivably due to its newly straitened financial situation.”
Bhagchandi, Hinkley and Morrison are all part of the instructional faculty, a group that comprises the non-tenure track positions of lecturers and lectors, who have limited job security even under more normal budgetary circumstances. In an email to the News, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Wilkinson acknowledged that recent pressure on Yale’s budget impacted contract decisions. It remains unclear how likely the contracts’ renewals would have been without the austerity measures caused by an impending endowment tax hike...
Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/instructors-let-go-amid-budget-cuts-drawing-flak-on-yale-s-priorities.
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