High yield rate for incoming class
YDS will begin the 2013–14 academic year with the largest entering class in recent memory, thanks to a surprisingly large surge in the yield rate. This year YDS accepted a total of 312 students, and 199 of those admitted have decided to matriculate—a yield rate of 64 percent. Since 2006, the yield had not exceeded 53 percent. Dean Gregory E. Sterling credits the assistance of alumni who met with applicants and shared their experiences of the school. Said Sterling, “I think that applicants realized the strong sense of community that characterizes YDS and wanted to be a part of it.” The yield was particularly strong among underrepresented groups. Of the six Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and Native American/Alaskan applicants accepted, all are planning to attend, as are 26 of the 35 accepted African American applicants.
Professor’s book makes waves in House of Commons
It is not every day that a YDS theologian is cited as a source during debates in the English House of Commons. But that is what happened on March 13, when Diana Johnson, a member of Parliament, referred to a new book by Maggi Dawn, associate dean for Marquand Chapel and associate professor (adjunct) of theology and literature, Like the Wideness of the Sea: Women Bishops and the Church of England. Johnson recalled arguments from the book in presenting a bill that would have forced the Church of England to allow women to be consecrated as bishops. But in late May the Church’s bishops published a plan that, if approved, will pave the way for women bishops. Dawn, one of the first women ordained as a priest in the Church, argues in her book that, if women have proved successful as priests, then they should also be welcomed as bishops. The exclusion of women as bishops, she says, sends “an unacceptable and illogical theological message.”
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