TD Student Activities Committee (SAC)
The Timothy Dwight Student Activities Committee meets each Monday at 10:23pm to plan social programming internal to the college, including TD’s formals and study breaks. Any member of the college is welcome to attend a SAC meeting! The SAC presidents for the 2025-2026 academic year are Keely Balfour (2027) and Dhakiya Knights (2027); please contact them if you have any ideas or are interested in learning more about SAC.
TD College Council (Mott Woolley)
Timothy Dwight’s College Council, known as Mott Woolley, or Mott, is responsible for making improvements to the College and planning external events for TD students. Mott Woolley is known for designing gear for the college, planning and executing TD tailgates (most famously for the Yale-Harvard game), and for coordinating various trips and events such as the annual Apple Picking and Ice Skating Trips, and Valentine’s Grams.
If you are interested in learning more about Mott Woolley, please contact the Mott Co-presidents, Freddie Rios Barrientos (2028) and James Kim (2028).
TD History Committee
The TD History Committee is composed of a group of TD students and alumni who aim to document memories of student life in TD. The committee organizes alumni interviews, trips to the archives, and more. If you are a TD alum and are interested either in participating in an interview or donating memorabilia (t-shirt, event flier, etc), please contact Steve Updegrove TD ’74 and Martine Dosa ‘26.
TD College Seminar Committee
Residential college seminars offer unique and innovative courses outside traditional departmental structures, taught by Yale faculty as well as individuals from diverse backgrounds such as writers, artists, journalists, and politicians. Each semester, the TD Seminar Selection Committee reviews materials and engages the wider TD community to decide the seminar we will host. Interested students should email college.seminar@yale.edu.
TD Think Tank
Think Tank began as an experiment in response to students who wanted to play a more active role in shaping their college experience. Developed in partnership with the Yale Center for Civic Thought and Eric Liu TD ‘90, the group meets weekly throughout the year. Participants read selected texts and engage in sustained, thoughtful conversation about community, civic life, and the purposes of a Yale education. Think Tank encourages nonjudgmental dialogue and invites students to turn conversation into constructive action within TD and beyond. Students interested in ‘26/27, contact Head Dinkler.
