Sharon Kugler retires, with Maytal Saltiel becoming interim chaplain for a semester.
Maytal Saltiel, previously Associate University Chaplain, is installed as University Chaplain. Maytal is both the first non-Christian university chaplain and the first Jewish university chaplain, and has previously served eleven years as associate chaplain at Yale.
Leenah Safi was hired as the Assistant Muslim Chaplain, giving Yale two Muslim Chaplains for the first time.
The current voluntary survey has a 32% response rate (response rates have varied over time) and should not be considered comprehensive or representative of the entire undergraduate population. When students cite multiple religious identities, we count each student once (i.e., if a student identifies as Methodist and Muslim, they would be counted as 1/2 of a person in each category). This is an imperfect system that is intended to provide a broad sense of the extent of religious diversity on campus.* Yale admissions does not ask students to disclose their religious identity during any part of the admissions process.
*Note: The religious preference information gathered below is self-reported by incoming students, is not comprehensive, and does not represent or document ethnicity.