To: All First Year Graduate and Professional School Students
From: Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard
Re: Invitation for first year graduate and professional student affiliates in the residential colleges
I am exceptionally pleased to extend an invitation from the Masters of Berkeley, Branford, Davenport, Ezra Stiles, Pierson, Morse, and Trumbull Colleges to all graduate & professional students to apply to affiliate with their colleges. The Graduate and Professional Affiliate Program allows graduate students to play a more active role in the larger Yale community through involvement with one of the participating colleges. Various offices co-sponsor this program as part of the University’s ongoing commitment to expand opportunities for graduate students to participate in campus life, as noted in the 2010 Yale accreditation report.
We hope you might consider this exciting possibility for closer contact with undergraduate students in the colleges. If you do not choose to apply this year, applications for 2012-13 will be available next spring.
Invitation from the Masters of Participating Residential Colleges:
We write to invite continuing students from the graduate and the professional schools to participate in residential college life at Yale. The residential colleges are intimate communities where individuals of diverse ages, backgrounds, and interests come together and learn from one another. Through the many activities and facilities in the colleges, our students quickly understand that belonging to a residential college is a precious educational and personal experience. Our students and faculty will welcome your participation in our activities. We sincerely look forward to reviewing your application. These positions are non-residential, so they do not allow grad/professional students to live in the colleges.
The graduate and professional affiliate program promotes interactions with undergraduates by providing special access to the participating college, two meals per week, use of that college’s facilities and many activities – ranging from college-wide educational, cultural and social events to photography, pottery, art and drama, poetry readings, music, language tables, science groups and career or pre-professional advising. Graduate student affiliates work with the Master and the undergraduate students to plan programs of mutual interest and benefit in each college. You do not need to be an alumnus of Yale College- all first year G&P students are welcome to apply.
If you are a first year full-time graduate or professional student in a degree program at Yale for 2011-12, and would like to apply for consideration as a graduate/professional affiliate of a residential college, please complete the online application by 12:00 noon on Monday, October 10 through http://yalegradaffiliates.blogspot.com/ The website also describes the affiliate program, the programs in the participating colleges, and FAQs. We will announce appointments for the 2011-12 academic year mid October 2011.
If you have questions not answered by the website or the FAQs, please contact James O’Leary, the student graduate affiliate program coordinator (gradaffiliateprogram@gmail.com).
The Graduate and Professional Affiliate program is administered by Lisa Brandes, Asst. Dean and Director of the Office of Graduate Student Life at the McDougal Center, GSAS; Deborah Bellmore, the Executive Assistant to the Council of Masters; and the graduate student program coordinator. The program is funded though the generous support of the Yale President’s Office, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Yale Council of Masters, and the Yale residential colleges.
Marvin Chun, Master, Berkeley
Betsy Bradley, Master, Branford
Richard Schottenfeld, Master, Davenport
Stephen Pitti, Master, Ezra Stiles
Frank Kell, Master, Morse
Harvey Goldblatt, Master, Pierson
Janet Henrich, Master, Trumbull
