Starting next year, the crowd at the now scantly attended monthly Yale College faculty meetings may grow a bit bigger.

At its last meeting of the fall semester, College faculty members unanimously decided to extend voting rights at future faculty meetings to full-time lectors and lecturers on multi-year contracts, in addition to all junior and senior professors, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said. Previously, invitations to the faculty meetings — and voting rights at the meetings — were extended only to permanent faculty members and residential-college deans. Following today’s decision, approximately 120 full-time language lectors and lecturers will be invited to future meetings, Associate Dean of Administrative Affairs John Meeske said.

Meeske said the change was inspired by a sense among faculty that lectors and lecturers who spend a large amount of time with undergraduates should have a voice in policies that impact students. “It was just based on a feeling that the people who teach undergraduates regularly should be … able to attend faculty meetings and decide academic issues that affect students,” he said. “People recognize that there was a substantial group of people who have a similar commitment in Yale College.”

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