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Learn about Yale Library's participation in cross-collection collaborations to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and the University’s Belonging at Yale DEIA initiatives.
DEIA across Yale Collections
Yale is committed to making its vast collections more accessible to local and global audiences and to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and access across the libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage units. A few important collaborations and initiatives are spotlighted below.
Cultural Heritage Student Internships/Fellowships
- Bartels Art Museum Scholar Summer Internships: The Yale Center for British Art offers summer and academic-year internships for Yale undergraduates and summer internships for HBCU undergraduates from New Haven County. These opportunities aim to familiarize students with the operations of the museum. Visit the Bartels internship website for more information.
- Cultural Heritage Research and Practice Post-Baccalaureate Program: The Cultural Heritage Research and Practice (CHRP) Two-Year Post-Baccalaureate Program is intended for individuals with an interest in pursuing careers as cultural heritage professionals. These two-year positions are designed to prepare participants for PhD programs in fields relating to cultural heritage research and practice. Visit the program’s website for more information.
- HBCU Library Alliance: Since its pilot summer in 2018, the Preservation Internship Program has developed as a joint initiative of the HBCU Library Alliance and Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC), building a mutually beneficial partnership between the Alliance and predominantly/historically white institutions with nationally-recognized library conservation/preservation labs. The internship program seeks to advance diversity in librarianship and develop college graduates with a broad appreciation for cultural heritage, libraries, and preservation. The program has supported paid summer internships for over 40 undergraduate interns from 21 HBCUs across 10 host sites over the past five years. For more information, visit the HBCU Library Alliance or contact Laura O’Brien-Miller.
- New Haven Promise Internships: The New Haven Promise Internship is offered throughout the New Haven community and helps local employers build a high-quality, diversified workforce. Each summer, Yale University Library hosts ten interns. For more information, visit the website or contact Andrew Gray.
- Yale/New Haven Museum Postgraduate Associate in Museum Education: The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), the New Haven Museum (NHM), and the Yale Peabody Museum (YPM) host a two-year Postgraduate Associate position in the field of museum education. The Postgraduate Associate will rotate through these three museums during their two-year appointment. This position is intended for individuals interested in exploring a career in this field. Museum educators come from many different professional backgrounds, and they typically need both knowledge of their museum’s subject area and familiarity with pedagogy. The position is designed to offer opportunities for growth in both content knowledge and object-based teaching strategies for visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Visit the program website for more information.
- Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Summer Undergraduate Research in the Environmental Sciences (SURES): YIBS offers funded opportunities for Summer Undergraduate Research in the Environmental Sciences. Students will spend eight weeks during the summer conducting research, analyzing data, and writing up their results with the mentorship of a YIBS-affiliated faculty member at Yale University. Projects may be developed into a senior thesis or scientific publication, depending on student interest. Research activities will be supplemented with a light curriculum oriented towards building research capacity, including responsible conduct of research, statistics in R, scientific writing, and applying to graduate school/funding. In addition to their own project, on-campus participants will learn about the broad range of YIBS research through lab tours and discussion groups, along with behind-the-scenes tours of the Yale Peabody Museum collections. Occasional evening and weekend outings will introduce students to the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Greater New Haven region. Visit the program website for more information.
- Yale Peabody Museum EVOLUTIONS Lab Internships: EVOLUTIONS (EVO) is a multi-year program for New Haven high school students from New Haven & West Haven public high schools. Participants begin classes in 9th or 10th grade and take classes weekly through all four years of high school. Rising juniors and seniors are eligible for summer lab internships, primarily in Peabody Collections, but also in related research labs across campus. These 100-hour internships offer exposure to and comfort in academic spaces. Interns present posters of their work and often translate research into activities in the museum. Contact Andrea Motto for more information.
- Yale Peabody Museum Teaching Resilience in Environmental Science Program: Using a critical pedagogy and Community Cultural Wealth framework, the PIs will construct a learning ecosystem that supports New Haven college students (and EVO alums) interested in exploring environmental fields. The project includes summer internships at the Peabody and partner organizations and an online support network to help BIPOC students navigate science spaces at predominantly white institutions. Contact Andrea Motto for more information.
- Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) Diversity Apprenticeship Program: The Diversity Apprenticeship Program (DAP) is based on a model created by The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles. Launched in 2018 and made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Broad’s DAP created a roadmap for museums across the country to build similar programs to diversify the art handling profession. YUAG’s pilot program will provide six-month paid training opportunities for two apprentices from groups that have been historically underrepresented on museum staff. This initiative offers its apprentices art handling experience, serves as a pathway to potential employment in the museum field and/or at the University, and serves as a proof-of-concept of this on-the-job training. A New Haven-centric program, the DAP is co-funded by Yale’s New Haven Hiring Initiative as part of its On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program. Contact jeffrey.yoshimine@yale.edu for more information.
- Yale University Art Gallery Robert E. and Jean E. Steele Education/Curatorial Internship: This internship (up to 10 hours/week) is open to both graduate and undergraduate applicants. It was established to support initiatives for U.S. underrepresented minority Yale students to explore their interest in the museum field through involvement with the Yale University Art Gallery. Contact Liliana Milkova for more information.
- Yale University Press (YUP) Summer Internship: YUP offers competitive paid internship opportunities in several of its departments (Acquisitions Editorial, Art Workshop, Marketing, Sales, Manuscript Editorial, and New Business and Product Development). By participating in the internship program, students are exposed to the inner workings of a major university press and successful business. For more information, visit https://yalebooks.yale.edu/publishing-internships.
Yale Center for British Art
“Exploring-art-ism” is a free program for families with children ages 5-12 with sensory processing differences. Participants engage with artwork in the galleries and create a hands-on project in a museum classroom. While the needs of individuals with sensory processing differences are prioritized, it is also fun for parents, siblings, and other relatives, too! Registration is required.
This program is conducted by the education department at the Yale Center for British Art in consultation with the Yale Child Study Center.
The Accessibility Working Group at YCBA supports our museum’s goal of welcoming visitors of all abilities, backgrounds, and experiences. By creating training opportunities and developing cooperative workflows, the AWG connects colleagues across departments to implement the YCBA’s commitment to creating equitable and inclusive access to our building, collections, and programs (both online and in-person). Contact Chair Matthew Capezzuto for more information.
Yale University Art Gallery
Through its collections and outreach, the Yale University Art Gallery fosters the study and understanding of human artistic achievement and harnesses the power of art to inspire and create a more inclusive world. We embrace a broad spectrum of perspectives and experiences to present and interpret the breadth of our global collections and to make them accessible to our students and visitors. The Art Gallery commits to ensuring that inclusion is reflected in our outreach, acquisitions, exhibitions, programming, and hiring and business practices. This commitment is articulated more fully in the Gallery’s Inclusion Statement and outlined in our strategic plan, New Voices, New Perspectives.
As we continue to assess our history and current practices, the Gallery will partner with Collections and Scholarly Communications colleagues and other relevant campus committees to advance a culture of inclusivity and access across our division and at the University.
Yale University Press Series
- Black Lives: Pairing highly qualified writers with subjects whose lives illuminate the breadth, diversity, and richness of Black experiences, the Black Lives series produces brief, authoritative biographies of individuals of African descent who profoundly shaped history.
- Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences.
Yale SDE Resources
Accessibility Resources at Yale
Yale University is committed to providing equal access to and full participation in its programs and activities to people with disabilities. The Accessibility Resources at Yale website serves as a central landing page to access related websites at Yale.
Visit the Usability & Web Accessibility website to learn more about resources that help make Yale’s web projects successful, usable, and accessible.
Accommodations Guidelines
Click on the websites below to learn more about the resources available to support faculty, staff, and students requesting accommodations.
Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility
The Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA) plays a leadership role in the university’s efforts to provide equitable treatment and accessibility within Yale’s programs and activities. OIEA encourages any student, faculty member, staff member, or applicant for employment or programs at Yale who is concerned about discrimination, harassment, sexual misconduct or related retaliation to report their concern to OIEA.
Yale Student Accessibility Services
Student Accessibility Services (SAS) works with all Yale students with disabilities, including those in Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and all Professional Schools to determine and provide appropriate accommodations and auxiliary aids and services through an interactive process.
Office of Engagement & Workplace Culture
The Office of Employee Engagement & Workplace Culture provides a range of information, consultation, and educational supports to the Yale community on issues related to workforce diversity, inclusion, and mutual respect.
Health and Wellness Resources
Yale seeks to promote health and well-being through fitness and wellness programs and medical centers; mental health through counseling services and support groups; and spiritual health through our Chaplain’s Office, which welcomes people of every faith. Learn more about available Health and Wellness Resources.
Library Job Opportunities
To learn more about open positions at the library, visit our Working at Yale Library website.