Yale

Peter Salovey has spent 11 transformative years as president of Yale University. Since he took office in 2013, Yale has made significant strides toward the vision he articulated upon his appointment as president — a vision he has continually reinforced of "a more unified Yale, a more accessible Yale, a more innovative Yale, and an even more excellent Yale."
 
During President Salovey's presidency — which has followed his service as provost, dean of Yale College, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and chair of the Department of Psychology — Yale has added 2.2 million square feet of teaching and research space and raised $7.2 billion to support Yale's academic mission and impact on the world. It has undertaken a thorough, university-wide effort to sustain a thriving educational environment in which faculty, students, staff, and alumni can do their best work, and it has launched a project to shed light on Yale's historical ties to slavery.

President Salovey has authored or edited more than a dozen books, translated into 11 languages, and published hundreds of journal articles and essays. With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework called "emotional intelligence," the theory that just as people have a wide range of intellectual abilities, they also have a wide range of measurable emotional skills that profoundly affect their thinking and action.

In addition to teaching and mentoring scores of graduate students, President Salovey has won both the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Pretoria (2009), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014), National Tsing Hua University (2014), Harvard University (2015), McGill University (2018), University of Haifa (2018), and Vytautas Magnus University (2019). In 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
 
Under President Salovey, Yale varsity teams have won 20 national championships, 38 Ivy League championships and six Ivy League Tournament championships. The Bulldogs have had nearly 300 Academic All-Ivy League honorees, nearly a dozen College Sports Communicators/College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America Award winners and two Rhodes Scholarship winners.

President Salovey currently serves as the Ivy League representative on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors. He also attended the 2018 Women Leaders in College Sports National Convention and participated in the president's panel that was titled "President's Perspective: Why we hire who we hire".

"Through sport, students learn to deal with failure, work as a team, be disciplined and resilient. In short, Athletics are central to our Yale mission." – Peter Salovey, President