Yale has the lowest percentage of minorities serving as senior administrators among the Ivy League, according to a Tuesday article published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student paper at the University of Pennsylvania. The DP wrote that it considered senior administrators and individual school deans “as each Ivy defines them on their respective websites” when »
Newark Mayor Cory Booker LAW ’97 will travel from New Jersey to New Haven on May 19 to deliver the Class Day speech to seniors and their family members. Class Day Co-Chairs Jonny Barclay ’13 and Chantal Ghanney ’13 announced Booker as the Class Day speaker in an email to the class of 2013 on »
At first glance, the email Yale students received this morning looked like another normal update from President-elect Peter Salovey. As the Salovey imposter’s message, however, became more and more self-deprecating, it became clear that the email from peter.salovey.yale@gmail.com was indeed a prank. The email appeared to be an update from Salovey, correcting a Feb. 6 »
The perks of President-elect Peter Salovey’s new position keep piling up: First came the email address, president.elect@yale.edu, from which Salovey emailed the community in November. Then, today, came a new website: president-elect.yale.edu. The website will primarily function to let members of the Yale community send Salovey messages about what changes they hope to see at Yale, »
Psychology professor Kelly Brownell will leave the University after this semester to become the dean of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke President Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72 and Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday. Brownell currently teaches the popular “Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food” lecture and serves as the director of the »