Author Archives: Daniel Sisgoreo

With construction of the new School of Management campus on Whitney Avenue now 11 months underway and the structure beginning to take shape, local residents and businesses are coming to understand the impact the campus will have on the surrounding neighborhood. The $230 million project has thus far combined steel with concrete into the looming »

A meeting between School of Management students and a former South Korean dictator over spring break has sparked controversy in South Korea and raised questions about the morality of meetings with controversial figures abroad. During the trip to South Korea — part of a first-year SOM requirement for which students analyze business and management issues »

Recent efforts to redesign the Divinity School’s curriculum have earned it a place on the Religious Institute’s list of sexually healthy and responsible seminaries. In response to its failure to make the previous list in 2009, the school began requiring students to take at least one sexuality-related course prior to graduation and used a $10,000 »

Even as workers assemble millions of pounds of steel, concrete and glass to build the School of Management’s new campus, SOM has not yet covered the hefty price tag of the construction. SOM Dean Edward Snyder told the News that the school has raised all but $20 to $40 million of the roughly $230 million »

The six-to-one student-to-faculty ratio at the School of Management is among the lowest of top business schools nationwide, but that will soon change. The SOM student body will increase from roughly 450 to 600 students by fiscal year 2017, which SOM Dean Edward Snyder said will raise tuition revenue and ensure sufficient enrollment in the »

Nina Foucher LAW ’14, described by friends and family as a gentle, thoughtful person, died March 5 in an apparent suicide. She was 25. Foucher attended the University of Chicago on a full academic scholarship before coming to Yale Law School. As an undergraduate majoring in Fundamentals, a self-study program at UChicago, she was a »

Roughly 10 months after Divinity School Dean Harold Attridge announced that he would step down this summer, University President Richard Levin named the next dean at a Thursday ceremony at the Divinity School. Gregory Sterling, the current dean of the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame, will assume leadership of the Divinity School »

In an effort to make the School of Management more competitive among admitted students, SOM Dean Edward Snyder has identified scholarships as a fundraising priority. As SOM currently pays about 6 percent of the student body’s annual tuition costs through merit-based scholarships — roughly one-third the percentage at its peer institutions — Snyder said he »

At a town hall on faculty diversity held Tuesday afternoon, more than 140 Yale Law School students gathered to learn about the school’s faculty hiring process. But early in the hourlong meeting, Dean Robert Post LAW ’77 made an announcement: a Hispanic woman had been offered tenure. Six attendees of the meeting, who requested anonymity »

Though the School of Management is leading efforts to create a network of foreign business schools, SOM Dean Edward Snyder has emphasized that institutions in the network will operate as equals. The new Global Network for Advanced Management that Snyder is planning for SOM and roughly 20 other business schools from around the world will »

Marie Colvin ’78, a prolific foreign correspondent who covered war zones ranging from the Balkans to the Middle East for the past two decades, was killed Wednesday in a mortar strike while on assignment in Syria. She was 56. A Yale Daily News Magazine staffer during her years at the University, Colvin took a job »

As the School of Management creates a new degree program for international students, it is building on a model of global education established by Yale’s World Fellows program. In 2001, University President Richard Levin launched the World Fellows program, which brings roughly 20 “rising leaders” from around the world to Yale each year, trains them »