Other International Initiatives at Yale University
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and its programs are the latest in a series of major international initiatives undertaken by the University over the past several years, supplementing the longstanding and distinguished programs of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
The initiatives include:
The freshman class that arrived in September was the first class admitted to Yale College under the new need-blind admissions policy that provides sufficient need-based financial aid to cover the cost of attending Yale to all students, both foreign and domestic. This initiative ensures that Yale attracts the strongest candidates for undergraduate admission from around the world.
The Yale World Fellows Program (WFP) will shortly announce its first class for the fall 2002 semester. The WFP was created to extend Yale's traditional mission of educating future leaders by bringing to campus promising young leaders from around the world for an intense one-semester period of study focused on global problems.
More than 500 candidates from 110 countries applied for admission to the first class of 15 students. They represent government, law and business, as well as academic, religious and non-governmental organizations on every continent.
To support Yale's expanded commitment to international students and programs, Levin recently created three senior professorships in international studies. The University allocated the new positions to the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), which will seek to identify scholars whose interests span the work of at least two of Yale's academic departments or professional schools. The first of these positions was recently filled by an expert on the cultural impact of globalization -- Arjun Appadurai, the new William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, who will join the faculty in the fall.
Yale continues to extend its involvement in international and area studies, teaching 52 foreign languages and offering more than 600 courses a year related to international affairs. In addition, YCIAS offers courses and degree programs focused on nine of the world's major regions as well as undergraduate majors in international studies and a master's in international relations. Many of Yale's advanced professional schools are already at the forefront of internationalizing their student bodies: Nearly 40% of students in the School of Music are international students, as are a third in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a quarter in the School of Management.
Yale has the largest international community in its history, with more than 1,560 international students and 900 international scholars from more than 100 countries. The number of international students at Yale has grown 29% in the last decade.
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