Technology
Shaping the future with technology
We are leveraging technology to build a more accessible, inclusive, and connected Yale. We seek creative solutions for using space on campus, building the shared economy, and enhancing mobility.
Yale’s Efforts
- Yale has made remarkable progress reducing server energy use, working with sustainable vendors, and streamlining on-campus IT systems.
- The University continues to provide the Yale community with new and more advanced computing solutions such as cloud-based virtual desktops, telework solutions and meeting the needs of employees and students with disabilities.
What You Can Do
- Explore Yale’s telecommuting resources.
- Take advantage of Yale’s teleconferencing services to make meetings easier and more efficient.
Our Objectives and Goals
Foster Connectivity through Networks
Develop and implement multidisciplinary technological solutions that foster sustainability and connectivity through local, regional, and global networks
Yale Information Security is boosting cybersecurity efforts to enhance resilience within the University and beyond. Cyber risk is an immediate sustainability threat with potentially substantial financial and social impacts. However, with the appropriate governance, tools, and metrics, cybersecurity can make institutions more resilient and sustainable. Yale’s recent efforts include identifying and tracking security risks, operating critical controls to detect potential security incidents, establishing security standards, and providing cybersecurity information to the Yale community.
Sustainable Technology Network
UPDATED
By 2018, establish an initiative to promote technology-based sharing economy concepts.
The sustainable technology network has evolved to become part of our overall technology goals, as reflected under the Sustainable IT Standards goal.
Sustainable IT Standards
Lead the technology industry by creating replicable sustainability standards related to energy, materials, human well-being, and transportation
Sustainable IT Standards
WE COULD DO BETTER
By 2025, define new sustainability standards for institutional information technology.
Due to competing sustainability priorities and shifts in staff capacity, efforts to define new sustainability standards for IT have paused. This effort will be redirected toward building more resilience into the University’s network infrastructure.
Telework
ACHIEVED
By 2020, increase teleworking at Yale by 25% to reduce travel and transportation emissions.
This goal was achieved in 2020 when the pandemic prompted the switch to remote work, but we continue to track the usage of teleconferencing tools. In 2022, there was a 79% increase in use of teleconferencing tools above 2018 levels.