From the Yale Daily News: Yale’s mission statement is no longer about “improving the world,” educating “aspiring leaders worldwide” or “the free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community.” The statement now reads: “Yale’s core mission is to create, disseminate, and preserve knowledge through research and teaching.” Yale President Maurie McInnis indicated but did not explicitly announce the change in an email to the University on Thursday afternoon. It came after Yale’s Committee on Trust in Higher Education recommended in a report this month that the University narrow its mission statement.
The faculty committee’s proposed mission statement, drawn from the Faculty Handbook, matches nearly verbatim the new mission statement on Yale’s website. McInnis wrote in an email to the News that the mission statement had been changed on Thursday...
Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-following-report-narrows-its-mission-statement-to-focus-on-knowledge.
No comments:
Post a Comment