Chaplaincy Fellows

The Yale University Chaplain’s Office is pleased to announce the creation of the new Chaplaincy Fellows program.  Two Chaplaincy Fellows will be chosen from each college, resulting in a total of 24 Fellows who will be known as the Core of 24.  Fellows will work under the caring guidance of Chaplain’s Office staff to help nurture the guiding principles of our chaplaincy: hospitality, reflection, and interfaith engagement.

College can be a time of intensive and extensive spiritual growth and exploration.  The Chaplain’s Office endeavors to support the healthy development of students’ religious and spiritual lives in this tumultuous time.  Many important parts of this journey happen with one’s peers; accordingly, we hope to empower a core group of students throughout the residential college system who can help engender an ethos of reflection, nonjudgmental conversation, and respectful curiosity of divergent world views.  With the guidance of the staff of the Chaplain’s Office, Chaplaincy Fellows will be empowered to facilitate conversations rooted in life’s big questions around meaning, purpose, authentic success, and happiness.  We seek students who are comfortable working with a wide spectrum of people, including those who have deeply held religious beliefs, atheists and agnostics, seekers, and everyone in between.  

Chaplaincy Fellows will begin to offer programs to the Yale community beginning in Fall 2012.