In a direct response to the Boston Marathon bombings, the Homeland Security Department has implemented a new security procedure requiring border agents to verify the student visa of each international student entering the United States. Previously, border agents at the airport could not access the Homeland Security Department’s Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or »
Yale Divinity School professor and former dean Rev. Thomas Ogletree is facing disciplinary charges for performing his son’s same-sex wedding ceremony. Ogletree, a member of the United Methodist Church, is facing a possible canonical trial for officiating at his son’s wedding, which took place last October at the Yale Club of New York. After the »
Two Yale College graduates and four graduate students have been named 2013 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows, entitling them to up to $90,000 in tuition and stipend assistance for two years of graduate study. The fellowship aims to support graduate study for first-generation immigrants to the United States. Fellows are selected on the basis of »
Though Yale has not yet released its yield rate for the Class of 2017, other Ivy League universities have reported increases over their figures from last year. Despite the cancelation of Visitas — the university’s traditional three-day welcome event for freshmen — Harvard reported that a record 82 percent of students accepted their offers of »
Replacing its current eRecruiting platform for jobs and internships, Undergraduate Career Services launched a new online resource system yesterday for students and alumni. The new system — Yale UCS Symplicity — is an online site that allows students and employers to connect through various job and internship opportunities and is loosely similar to eRecruiting in »