At the same ceremony the University will also award a Chancellor’s medal to Fay King Chung.

Dr Chung founded the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), uniting women education ministers and vice-chancellors throughout Africa to promote education for girls in Africa. Today she is a member of the Envision Zimbabwe Women’s Trust which unites women with different political views to build a united vision of Zimbabwe’s future.

Peter Salovey, joined the Yale faculty in 1986 after receiving a BA and MA from Stanford University and a PhD from Yale. He holds secondary faculty appointments in the schools of Management and Public Health and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in January 2003, Dean of Yale College in July 2004, and Provost in October 2008.

Prof Salovey has authored or edited 13 books that have been translated into 11 languages, and has published more than 300 journal articles and essays, focused primarily on human emotion and health behaviour. With John D Mayer, he developed a broad framework called “Emotional Intelligence” , the theory that just as people have a wide range of intellectual abilities, they also have a wide range of measurable emotional skills that profoundly affect their thinking and action. In his research on health behaviour, Mr Salovey investigates the effectiveness of health promotion messages in persuading people to change risky behaviours relevant to cancer and HIV/AIDS.

Prof Salovey has served on several councils, foundations and working groups like the National Science Foundation’s Social Psychology Advisory Panel, the National Institute of Mental Health Behavioral Science Working Group, and the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council.

He was a recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a National Cancer Institute CIS Partner in Research Award, and a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Excellence Award.

Prof Salovey served as president of the Society for General Psychology and
treasurer of the International Society for Research on Emotion. He was the founding editor of the Review of General Psychology and an associate editor of Emotion and Psychological Bulletin.

In addition to teaching and mentoring scores of graduate students, Mr Salovey has won both the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences.

Fay King Chung participated in the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle under the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1976-1980. She was in charge of
educational research, curriculum development and teacher training.

She served as Head of Educational Planning after independence was obtained in 1980 and was responsible for increasing the quantity and quality of education. One strategy was the establishment of the Zimbabwe Integrated National Teacher Education Course (ZINTEC), an innovative programme combining residential with distance education over a period of four years, utilising student teachers serving in schools.

She later became Head of Curriculum Development to spearhead the transformation of the primary and secondary curriculum from the racially divided apartheid system to a unified high-quality system.

She was Minister of Education and Culture from 1988-1992, a period which saw the consolidation of the quality of education. She is a founder member of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), uniting women education ministers and vice-chancellors throughout Africa to promote education for girls in Africa. She is also a founder member of the Association for Strengthening Women’s Education in Africa (ASHEWA) to promote university and tertiary education for women.

In 1992 she requested to be transferred to become Minister of State for Employment Creation. At the time, only 10% of school leavers were able to find work. She completely failed in this undertaking as Government had decided to embark on Structural Adjustment, thereby refusing responsibility for employment creation.

Faced with this failure, she resigned and joined UNICEF as the Head of the Education Cluster in New York, where she was in charge of leading UNICEF’s education programmes. In 1998, she left UNICEF to become the founding director of the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) in Addis Abeba.

Dr Chung was honorary adviser on education to the African Union. Today she is a member of the Envision Zimbabwe Women’s Trust which unites women with different political views to build up a united vision of Zimbabwe’s future.