ANALYSIS: Ivy League school already employs more than 5,500 full-time staff
Yale University is hiring a new employee to be “on call” at all times of day to handle unruly student protesters – adding to its ranks of more than 5,500 administrators and staff.
The new associate director of university life position is part of Yale leaders’ plans to prepare for more pro-Palestinian protests this fall, according to the Yale Daily News.
“It’s basically to try and avoid situations where things are escalated by encounters with police or security,” Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis told the student newspaper when asked about the role.
According to the job post on LinkedIn, the position will involve “providing on-site logistical support in partnership with Yale Public Safety during protests, demonstrations, and peaceful dissent, and individuals and groups practicing free expression; offering policy guidance, including timely warning notices, along with remedies for a return to compliance.”
The job “involves evening and weekend work, especially during periods with high-profile events or emergencies and will occasionally require night duty. Additionally, the Associate Director must have the ability to be on campus with very short notice as needed.”
Yale also wants someone with skills in “conflict resolution, mediation, and de-escalation techniques,” “cultural competence,” and the “ability to work with diverse populations.”
According to the report, the salary range is $72,100 to $125,100.
During the last school year, the Ivy League institution’s more than 5,500 administrators and support staff – nearly one for every student, according to a March analysis by The College Fix – struggled with how to handle the protesters who violated campus policies or laws.
A Jewish student reportedly was stabbed in the eye at one pro-Palestinian protest; the same event saw protesters blocking an intersection.
Others interrupted President Peter Salovey with “boos and cries of ‘shame’” during commencement, the Yale Daily News reported at the time.
According to the most recent report, “At times during last semester’s pro-Palestinian campus protests, students and administrators clashed over what forms of protests were or should be allowed. Yale police intervened on some occasions and arrested 47 students who had set up a three-night encampment on Beinecke Plaza.”
Prior to the arrests, dean Lewis told the student newspaper there had been “over five hours of negotiations yesterday, he extended the deadline multiple times, ‘but could not go past midnight.’”
Many universities have been grappling with how to handle the protests now that the fall semester has begun. Some have argued universities need to be more stringent in their enforcement of laws and campus policies.
At Yale, they’re hiring more staff.
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