Yale Faculty Report (released in April 2026)
Read President Maurie McInnis’s statement.
Read a summary of the report and McInnis’s response to it, courtesy of College Fix.
Several key points from the Report:
“Trust is earned by doing what you say you’re going to do—and, ideally, doing it well. In recent years, however, universities have been expected to be all things to all people: selective but inclusive, affordable but luxurious, meritocratic but equitable. Rather than build public support, this diffusion of purpose has contributed to distrust. Without a clear mission and purpose, it becomes difficult to judge whether colleges and universities are living up to their fundamental commitments.”
Yale University’s Maurie McInnis
“The complaint that colleges and universities lean left is hardly new. William F. Buckley, Jr., made much the same case about Yale in 1951. Yet something distinctive has happened in recent decades. In 1989, approximately 40 percent of the nation’s faculty identified as liberal, 40 percent as moderate, and 20 percent as conservative. By 2014, those numbers had shifted to 60 percent liberal, 30 percent moderate, and 10 percent conservative.”
“Higher education still costs too much. For too many Americans, paying for college or graduate education means taking on serious debt, which millions of borrowers struggle to repay. According to the U.S. Department of Education, almost a quarter of all Americans with federal student loans are currently in default, the highest rate since the federal government began keeping track. The debt crisis also reflects a deeper problem of value. For many students, the economic return on higher education has become uncertain at best.”
