Author Archives: David Burt

This summer, Yale students trying to earn extra credits or preparing for study abroad trips weren’t the only ones cooped up in the classroom. A cohort of 14 Yale parents and alumni — plus one alum’s spouse — ranging in age from roughly 30 to 90 gathered on campus for two weeks in May to »

When Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Thomas Pollard issued a lengthy list of recommendations for improving doctoral programs last week, he intended to give students and professors food for thought. In addition to his 20 pages of suggestions for bolstering mentorship and other aspects of the Graduate School, Pollard also released a wealth »

After a year of research, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Thomas Pollard unveiled a set of recommendations intended to strengthen Yale’s doctoral programs Thursday. In an email to Graduate School faculty and students, Pollard released a 20-page list of nine measures aimed at improving mentoring, along with a 29-page list of “best practices” »

Juan Cole, a noted Middle East expert and outspoken critic of the Israeli government who was denied a faculty appointment at Yale in 2006, sued the CIA and FBI on Wednesday. The University of Michigan history professor and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a case asking for the “immediate expedited processing” of Freedom »

The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA), which has operated since 2006, will not continue next year, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies Donald Green said in a statement. The decision to end the program has met criticism from groups across the nation that show support for Jewish people, »

Updated: 1:46 p.m. Gabriel Olszewski, currently university registrar at the University of Chicago, will become University registrar at Yale July 18, Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News Monday morning. The appointment is the result of a semester-long search following the retirement of Jill Carlton, who had led the Registrar’s Office since 2003. Ernst »

Even though Yale’s undergraduate disciplinary body has issued sanctions against Delta Kappa Epsilon resulting from an inflammatory public pledge chant in October, it is still unclear whether the University will have any sway over the future of the fraternity. Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced the outcome of the Executive Committee’s disciplinary proceedings against DKE »

Yale’s 310th Commencement had the robes and vocabulary of a formal ceremony, but graduates added their own flavor to the proceedings with spirited shouts and accessories. Yale University conferred 2,907 degrees — 1,251 to undergraduates — and awarded another 229 provisionally to students in the Law School and in the School of Medicine’s Physician Associate »

UPDATED: 7:40 p.m.This evening, Yale College faculty did their part to help “clear the way” for the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to Yale. A “significant majority” of the roughly 200 faculty members who attended a Yale College faculty meeting late Thursday afternoon voted to discard a set of resolutions that led to »

The accuracy of a controversial set of rankings of doctoral programs by the National Research Council has been questioned since their release in September 2010. Now, two waves of corrections issued last month in response to criticism have boosted the ranks of several of Yale’s graduate programs. The NRC, which is part of a private, »

The committee charged with assessing reform to Yale’s curriculum has found it difficult to measure the effects of the 2005 changes to academic requirements, but its findings point toward significant positive change. Yale College Dean Mary Miller said the Committee on Yale College Education is nearly done with its report, but will delay the completion »

The University has taken another step toward inviting the Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (ROTC) back to campus. The Faculty Committee on ROTC released a report Thursday recommending that Yale College amend the four resolutions approved by the faculty in 1969, which led to the discontinuation of ROTC at Yale. At the May 5 faculty meeting, »