Author Archives: Sophie Gould

Two-month provost search ends with ceremony in Luce Hall.

This semester, Yale will debut its first Technology Enabled Active Learning classroom, which aims to improve students’ classroom experiences.

Many faculty members continue to question whether administrators are doing enough to solicit faculty input in University decision-making.

Provost Peter Salovey is working to encourage high-quality teaching among professors at Yale.

Students at over 100 campuses nationwide are calling for universities to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry — and the movement has arrived at Yale.

Two School of Management professors presented a paper in September about how the recession affected higher education.

Yale’s faculty forum drew about 40 professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to discuss a range of issues affecting the University Monday afternoon.

With an academic review process underway, Yale is beginning to evaluate the makeup of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Though Provost Peter Salovey has secured the post of Yale’s 23rd president, he still has several items on his to-do list in his current position. One of the first tasks — appoint his successor.

Salovey first came to Yale as a graduate student 30 years ago and has since served as dean of both Yale College and the Graduate School before assuming the University’s second-highest position as provost in 2008.

Professors codified rules governing the structure and organization of the monthly Yale College faculty meetings a week ago, after several of those meetings erupted into heated debate last spring. Yale College Dean Mary Miller and other members of the faculty steering committee presented the newly formalized rules — which Miller said were based on the »

At 11:25 p.m. on Tuesday, a pack of about 15 students, two of them shirtless and waving their T-shirts in the air, spilled out of Farnam Hall onto the lawn of Old Campus and began a victory lap. “Obama!” they cheered. “Four more years!” The sound of Young Jeezy crooning “My President Is Black” emanated »