Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is a division of Yale University. It is organized into three divisions: humanities, social science, and science; the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) was a division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences until it became its own unit of the university in 2022. FAS and SEAS faculty are represented by the FAS-SEAS Senate, an elected 25-member senate who liaise between the faculty and university administration.

The FAS consists of over 1,000 faculty members, who provide instruction to students in Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences through more than 40 departments and programs. The president of Yale described the relationship between these units as follows: "Faculty recruitment, appointment, tenure, and promotion will be handled primarily by the dean of FAS. The dean of Yale College will have a key role in leading the expansion of Yale College and the formation of two new residential colleges. The dean of the Graduate School will continue to advance graduate student preparation for scholarly and other professions, as well as focus on the campus experience for graduate students."

The first dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was appointed in 2014, inheriting certain responsibilities of the Yale University provost and the deans of Yale College and the Graduate School. Tamar Gendler served as the inaugural FAS dean from 2014 to 2024. Since 2025, Steven Wilkinson has held the deanship; three divisional deans represent the divisions.

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