More than a third of Yale College courses have fewer than ten students — a luxury on which the university may need to cut back.
Provost Peter Salovey doesn’t seem to be talking about eliminating small classes altogether. But “I do think,” he tells the Yale Daily News, “we have an obligation to look at very small courses that are offered annually and think maybe could they could be offered every other year.” There’s an educational advantage as well as an economic one, Yale College Dean Mary Miller adds: “It’s hard to be in a class with fewer than three students.”
