With the GPA cut-offs for Latin honors at an all-time high, Yale College faculty are beginning to investigate grading trends. At the first Yale College faculty meeting of the year last Thursday, Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced the creation of an ad hoc committee on grading policy to be chaired by economics professor Ray »
Amidst reports of tension between the Yale Police and administration, sources with close ties to Yale Security have accused the University of altering deployment policies to penalize the security force for unionizing — a change the sources said jeopardizes student safety. Multiple sources with close ties to Yale Security — who asked to remain anonymous »
Amid continued concerns over crime surrounding the University’s campus, the Yale Police Benevolent Association, or YPBA, the labor union representing the Yale Police Department, condemned new administrative policy on police and security deployment, which they said jeopardizes student safety. Tensions between Yale’s police force and the University administration, two parties who have had a tumultuous »
In an effort to fight dwindling enrollment, the history department is creating recruitment events aimed at underclassmen. At this fall’s first meeting of the History Undergraduate Advisory Council Monday afternoon, recruitment efforts took centerstage: students and Steven Pincus, Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, discussed creating targeted outreach events for freshmen and sophomores in order »
Following Fareed Zakaria’s ’86 resignation from the Yale Corporation this Aug., Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 will take over as a successor trustee. Marshall’s intelligence and prior experience working on Yale’s highest governing body as an alumni fellow made her the clear choice for trusteeship during the ongoing presidential search, University President Richard Levin said. Marshall, »
Standing on the steps of New Haven’s Hopkins School Thursday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recounted the story of how her grandfather became the first person in her family to receive a college degree, emphasizing education’s “transformative power.” Rice attended the private day school’s annual academic convocation ceremony, delivering a formal address and engaging »
After receiving a sizable grant this summer, the Yale AIDS Memorial Project is preparing to launch an interactive website by the end of January in an effort to expand its reach beyond campus. The initiative, begun in 2010 by Christopher Glazek ’07, documents the lives of members of the Yale community who perished during the »
Yale’s next president will have the chance to reevaluate an athletic recruitment policy that has sparked controversy and frustration among many members of the University’s athletic community. During University President Richard Levin’s tenure, the percentage of athletic recruits at Yale has decreased from 18 percent in the class of 1998 to 13 percent in the »
Administrators are walking a careful line between promising graduates of Yale-NUS access to most Association of Yale Alumni resources, and terming those graduates “Yale alumni.” Yale-NUS graduates — whose degrees will be issued by the National University of Singapore, not Yale — will be considered “international affiliates” in the AYA, but not official Yale alumni. »
After working with HIV-positive adults in the public health sector, serving in the Peace Corps in Malawi and directing a civic service initative at Duke University, Candice Provey is tackling a new role at the Chaplain’s Office. This summer, University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Reverend Ian Oliver, the pastor of the University Church, selected Provey »
On Monday night, Patrick Reed ’15, a member of Yale’s Student Environmental Coalition stood in the center of the women’s table — water still running — to speak to a small crowd of students about the importance of campus activism. He was representing one of 20 groups at the Yale Activist Bazaar, a new student-run »
Though long-term plans for the Residential College Seminar program are still unclear, this semester’s 21 seminars again attracted far more applications than there are spots. Finalized course demand statistics will not be released until the end of shopping period, but preliminary data shows that most seminars attracted between 40 and 60 applicants for 18 spaces, »
