"Peter Salovey" is an American social psychology/social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost (education)/Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Yale College. Salovey is one of the early pioneers and leading researchers in emotional intelligence.

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Volunteering is an act of heroism, ... I hope that you will continue to be heroes during your time at Yale.

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These are critically important issues that need to be brought to our attention, ... We want to be informed by thoughtful students, who have studied these issues in-depth, about what programs work and what needs to be improved.

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We might meet with some leaders of student organizations such as fraternities and ask them from their point of view to describe the way people drink at the fraternity parties, to describe the kind of social climate at those parties.

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Our primary function is teaching and research, and there's no good reason not to do that.

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I think we are very interested in seeing more students from across the income spectrum come to Yale and see Yale as accessible to them.

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It's the perfect sort of town-gown program, ... It lets students at different levels take advantage of our faculty scholarship in the area of urban education, but then the program also helps to produce skilled teachers for the New Haven public schools.

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I think we want to present a Yale College education as accessible as possible to as broad a range of students as we can throughout the world, ... I think Jeff, through his own commitment to diversity, as well as through his own family experiences and experiences at Yale, is someone who will relate very well to all kinds of potential applicants.

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Operationally the admissions process is very well run by very well-regarded people, ... That lets us think a little outside the box in terms of the kind of person who we can bring in to provide a vision for Yale College admissions, to provide organizational leadership for the office, and to be the face of Yale to high school students, teachers and guidance counselors all over the world.

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