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Fulfilling Yale’s global academic mission

This editorial is the second in a four-part series about the academic review. Yale President Richard Levin initiated the academic review at the end of […]

Two campaigns for the Corporation

Campaign leaflet by campaign leaflet, the Yale Corporation election is starting to look more and more like a Cold War-style proxy battle, with Yale and […]

Cleaning up the Credit/D/Fail mess

When Yale first instituted the Credit/Fail policy in 1975, its creators envisioned a learning environment in which students could have the freedom to experiment academically […]

The right course for Yale’s Af-Am studies

Professor Cornel West provided the latest, biggest twist in the ongoing saga of the Harvard Afro-American Studies Department when he finally announced this weekend that […]

An agenda for the Corporation meeting

Nine months ago, most undergraduates’ knowledge of the Yale Corporation was limited to a hazy image of 16 trustees who sit behind the president at […]

The first breakthrough in negotiations

For most of this academic year, University administrators and leaders from Yale’s unions have openly committed themselves to a new approach to their historically tempestuous […]

The right call on drugs and financial aid

For a university often criticized for its silence, Yale should be commended in its recent forays into the national spotlight. A few months after Yale […]

Taking the stress out of the housing draw

Over the past week, Yale students have shared the oft-tumultuous and painful experience of housing draw. The process starts off with long e-mails from residential […]

A late-night opportunity lost for the YCC

At a Sunday night meeting that stretched well into Monday morning, the Yale College Council ultimately decided to repeal a resolution it passed last year […]

Senseless and illogical punishment

This week, college students across America participated in Amnesty International’s National Week of Student Action to Abolish the Death Penalty. At Yale, members of the […]

The state of the globalization center

Just over two months ago, Strobe Talbott ’68 announced that he would leave his post as director of the newly founded Yale Center for the […]