About
Yale and the World
Since its founding in 1701, Yale has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and preserving cultural and scientific information for future generations.
Yale’s reach is both local and international. The University partners with its hometown of New Haven, Connecticut and engages with people and institutions across the globe in the quest to promote cultural understanding, improve the human condition, delve deeper into the secrets of the universe, and train the next generation of world leaders.
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The Yale and the World (YATW) website provides a comprehensive directory for the myriad of internationally oriented programs at Yale. These programs are housed in virtually every school, department, and center across Yale.
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Yale’s Global Strategy and Academic Initiatives
The division is led by Pericles Lewis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale University, who serves as vice president for global strategy and vice provost for academic initiatives. Reporting to the president and the provost, he is responsible for ensuring that the broader global initiatives of the university serve Yale’s academic goals and priorities.
The Global Strategy Division and the Academic Initiatives group strengthen Yale’s mission as one of the world’s great universities by supporting teaching, learning, the arts, research and international collaboration.
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The work of the Global Division involves close collaboration with colleagues in offices across the Yale campus and around the globe, including:
Yale-NUS College in Singapore
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London
Yale Center Beijing in China
Gruber Foundation in New Haven
Yale Institute for Global Health
Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
For more information, please contact us by email at: world@yale.edu