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NEW HAVEN — Yale University Provost Peter Salovey, a renowned psychologist, professor, former dean and 30-year city resident, will be the university’s next president.
The Yale Corporation made the announcement Thursday afternoon. The board cited Salovey’s breadth of academic experience, his long affiliation with Yale and what it called his “impeccable integrity and character.”
“I’m still a bit stunned and certainly very thrilled,” Salovey said in an interview with the Register. “I came here as a graduate student 31 years ago. I love this place and I’ve always wanted to help make it better.”
Salovey will be Yale’s first bluegrass-playing president, as well. For more than 20 years, he’s played the double bass and sang with a local group called “The Professors of Bluegrass.”
As a psychologist, Salovey has written or edited 13 books, published more than 350 journal articles and essays, and conducted much-lauded research on the concept of “emotional intelligence.”
Salovey’s appointment is effective June 30, 2013. He will be Yale’s 23rd president, succeeding Richard C. Levin, who has held the post since 1993.
“I think he’s cut out for this,” Levin said of Salovey Thursday. “He’s a person who gets along with all sorts of people, and he’ll be open and receptive to the community.
The search process took only two and a half months. Salovey said he had “multiple interactions” over that time with members of the search committee and Yale Corporation senior fellow Edward P. Bass.
Bass introduced Salovey to a cheering crowd at Yale’s McDougall Center that included New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and West Haven Mayor John M. Picard. “Peter brings a profound understanding of Yale, and great ambitions for advancing the University in the years ahead,” Bass said.
Bass said more than 150 candidates were considered. Search committee members “criss-crossed” the country talking with candidates, he said, but only a handful were selected for final interviews. Continued...
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Salovey said he and Levin already have begun discussing such things as fundraising, Yale’s endowment and the university’s relationship with the city. He described Levin as a “wonderful mentor” and said Yale’s partnership with the city in recent years has been one of Levin’s most significant accomplishments.
“I want to see us build on that partnership,” Salovey said. “I look forward to talking with Mayor DeStefano and being his collaborator and partner.”
Salovey holds three Yale degrees in psychology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1986, becoming chairman of the psychology department in 2000. He served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2003 to 2004, and dean of Yale College from 2004 to 2008. He has been provost since 2008.
Salovey and his wife, Marta Moret, live on Cliff Street. They met in 1983 as graduate students at Yale; they both were officers in the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. Moret is president of Urban Policy Strategies, a consulting group that assists community-based health organizations.
“You’re just a great, true-blue, Yale blue couple,” Bass said to Salovey and Moret during introductory remarks.
Salovey said one of the first things he plans to do is “begin a process of hearing what’s on people’s minds and develop a shared understanding of what Yale is all about. As I listen to various parts of the campus community, I want to organize a shared vision.”
That vision, he said, will include more interconnectedness among the university’s many disciplines, increasing accessibility to Yale’s educational and artistic resources and encouraging innovation.
He highlighted two themes regarding innovation. “We want to ensure that our outstanding humanities and arts programs remain that way and become stronger, while bringing science and engineering up to that level, as well,” he said. “I’d also like to focus on entrepreneurial opportunities and economic development. I think we’re already seeing that with Science Park and West Campus. I think we can continue to build New Haven as a place to attract economic development.”
Salovey also supports the university’s controversial affiliation with the government of Singapore to create a new campus there. “I think it’s important to see it as an educational opportunity,” he said, pointing out that Yale is helping develop a new approach to curriculum in Singapore.
Bruce D. Alexander, Yale’s vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, applauded Salovey’s appointment. Continued...
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NEW HAVEN — Yale University Provost Peter Salovey, a renowned psychologist, professor, former dean and 30-year city resident, will be the university’s next president.
The Yale Corporation made the announcement Thursday afternoon. The board cited Salovey’s breadth of academic experience, his long affiliation with Yale and what it called his “impeccable integrity and character.”
“I’m still a bit stunned and certainly very thrilled,” Salovey said in an interview with the Register. “I came here as a graduate student 31 years ago. I love this place and I’ve always wanted to help make it better.”
Salovey will be Yale’s first bluegrass-playing president, as well. For more than 20 years, he’s played the double bass and sang with a local group called “The Professors of Bluegrass.”
As a psychologist, Salovey has written or edited 13 books, published more than 350 journal articles and essays, and conducted much-lauded research on the concept of “emotional intelligence.”
Salovey’s appointment is effective June 30, 2013. He will be Yale’s 23rd president, succeeding Richard C. Levin, who has held the post since 1993.
“I think he’s cut out for this,” Levin said of Salovey Thursday. “He’s a person who gets along with all sorts of people, and he’ll be open and receptive to the community.
The search process took only two and a half months. Salovey said he had “multiple interactions” over that time with members of the search committee and Yale Corporation senior fellow Edward P. Bass.
Bass introduced Salovey to a cheering crowd at Yale’s McDougall Center that included New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and West Haven Mayor John M. Picard. “Peter brings a profound understanding of Yale, and great ambitions for advancing the University in the years ahead,” Bass said.
Bass said more than 150 candidates were considered. Search committee members “criss-crossed” the country talking with candidates, he said, but only a handful were selected for final interviews.
Salovey said he and Levin already have begun discussing such things as fundraising, Yale’s endowment and the university’s relationship with the city. He described Levin as a “wonderful mentor” and said Yale’s partnership with the city in recent years has been one of Levin’s most significant accomplishments.
“I want to see us build on that partnership,” Salovey said. “I look forward to talking with Mayor DeStefano and being his collaborator and partner.”
Salovey holds three Yale degrees in psychology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1986, becoming chairman of the psychology department in 2000. He served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2003 to 2004, and dean of Yale College from 2004 to 2008. He has been provost since 2008.
Salovey and his wife, Marta Moret, live on Cliff Street. They met in 1983 as graduate students at Yale; they both were officers in the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. Moret is president of Urban Policy Strategies, a consulting group that assists community-based health organizations.
“You’re just a great, true-blue, Yale blue couple,” Bass said to Salovey and Moret during introductory remarks.
Salovey said one of the first things he plans to do is “begin a process of hearing what’s on people’s minds and develop a shared understanding of what Yale is all about. As I listen to various parts of the campus community, I want to organize a shared vision.”
That vision, he said, will include more interconnectedness among the university’s many disciplines, increasing accessibility to Yale’s educational and artistic resources and encouraging innovation.
He highlighted two themes regarding innovation. “We want to ensure that our outstanding humanities and arts programs remain that way and become stronger, while bringing science and engineering up to that level, as well,” he said. “I’d also like to focus on entrepreneurial opportunities and economic development. I think we’re already seeing that with Science Park and West Campus. I think we can continue to build New Haven as a place to attract economic development.”
Salovey also supports the university’s controversial affiliation with the government of Singapore to create a new campus there. “I think it’s important to see it as an educational opportunity,” he said, pointing out that Yale is helping develop a new approach to curriculum in Singapore.
Bruce D. Alexander, Yale’s vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, applauded Salovey’s appointment.
“Great selection,” Alexander said. “Peter’s a wonderful leader. It’s like appointing one of the family.”
Picard also had kind words for the next Yale president.
“I liked what he had to say,” Picard said of Salovey’s remarks at the McDougal Center. “He talked about listening. He talked about humility.”
Contact reporter Jim Shelton at 203-789-5664.
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