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Strategic Plan

Guided by our storied history, we face today’s environmental challenges with a renewed commitment to groundbreaking scholarship, practice, engagement, and leadership.

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    For more than a century, the Yale School of the Environment has been at the forefront of turning science into solutions. We’ve built upon our historic strengths in forestry and land management, developing a more comprehensive and rigorous curriculum that combines environmental science and sustainability with business, law, policy, energy, and natural resources. When our students graduate, they are already nationally and internationally renowned environmental leaders.

    With more diverse and increasingly urgent environmental challenges upon us, we continue to follow our mission and vision — promoting knowledge and leadership for a sustainable future for all people. Our ambitious Strategic Plan provides the framework for how we will meet these challenges — in the immediate future and beyond — through innovative teaching and learning in the environmental field.

    Annual Reports and Strategic Plan Updates

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    The Forest School Strategic Plan 2020-2030

    Connecting people, forests and forestry for a sustainable future

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    DEI — A Vision for the Future

    In the next five years, we will make YSE a trailblazer in educating  diverse environmental professionals in the U.S. and around the globe. 

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    Annual Report

    2023 Impacts

    Yale School of the Environment's 2023 Annual Report (PDF). 

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    Annual Report

    Impacts 2022

    2022 Annual Report on the Strategic Plan

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    Annual Report

    Impacts 2021

    2021 Annual Report on the Strategic Plan

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    Annual Report

    Impacts 2020

    2020 Annual Report on the Strategic Plan

     

    Three-Year Report

    2020 Three-Year Report on the Strategic Plan

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    Annual Report

    Impacts 2019

    2019 Annual Report on the Strategic Plan

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    Annual Report

    Impacts 2018

    2018 Annual Report on the Strategic Plan

     

    2017 Strategic Plan

    The original 2017 Strategic Plan, which predates the School's name change in 2020.

     

    YSE Strategic Plan and Strategic Plan Update

    Read the 2017 YSE Strategic Plan and a Three-Year Report on the plan. 

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