Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3:34pm
A faculty member in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department has been accused of sexual harassment, according to a Yale Police Department report filed April 8. The accusation will likely be handled internally by Yale Graduate School administrators, YPD spokesman Sgt. Steven Woznyk told the News on Tuesday. The YPD and the Graduate School have agreed to try...
A Korean court may have already ruled in the matter, but it now appears that the epic saga commonly known as “Shingate” is anything but over. Shin Jeong-ah, the disgraced Dongguk University art history professor who rode a fake Yale doctorate first to great prominence and then to great shame, has appealed her 18-month prison sentence in connection with the scandal...
Yale placed first in three sets of rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released Friday. The survey includes rankings of both professional schools and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Yale Law School topped the list of law schools — a feat it has accomplished every year since the rankings began in...
While most Yale undergraduates will be celebrating the end of student loans next year, many of their graduate-student counterparts will still be taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans — a process that tightening credit markets have made even more stressful. Although graduate- and professional-school students, like undergraduates, will have no difficulty...
The prospect of building two new residential colleges may have dominated this weekend’s meeting of the Yale Corporation, but that’s not to say its members do not have anything else on their minds. The highlight of their summit, to be sure, was the Corporation’s decision Saturday to direct University administrators to proceed with planning for the two new colleges...
Drilling, bad-tasting fluoride and sore jaws aside, some Yale students would still like to be able to go to the dentist’s office more often. Since early last semester, members of Yale’s graduate- and professional-school organizing bodies have been working to convince University administrators of the need for student dental insurance, which is currently not included...
The Korean university to which Yale accidentally verified the authenticity of a fabricated doctorate will sue Yale, the school’s president said last week, according to a report published in The Korea Times. University President Richard Levin recently sent a letter of apology to Dongguk University, where Shin Jeong-ah, a former art history professor at the school...
After admitting last month that the Yale had mistakenly verified to an employer the authenticity of a doctorate degree fabricated by a Korean art history professor, University officials said they have changed their procedure for confirming graduate degrees — and will not be hoodwinked again. University officials will no longer confirm or deny whether a person holds a...
Updated Friday 10:40 p.m. After disclosing last weekend that the University had mistakenly confirmed to an employer the authenticity of a doctorate degree fabricated by a Korean art history professor, Yale officials said they have changed their procedure for verifying graduate degrees — and will not be fooled again. University officials will no longer confirm or...
More than 100 students, faculty members and other Yale affiliates packed into Sudler Hall on Tuesday night for “The History of Hate,” the first of at least four panels planned by administrators to analyze hate from various academic perspectives. For 90 minutes, the audience members listened as four University history professors explored the origins of hate speech and...
A November report by the National Science Foundation indicates that the number of doctoral degrees granted by American universities in the 2005-2006 academic year increased 5.1 percent from the year before. Science and engineering degrees accounted for over two-thirds of this increase, while there was a 3.5 percent rise in the number of doctorate degrees granted in...
Graduate students forced to deal with outdated electrical outlets, bursting pipes and snapping elevator cables count themselves lucky: At least they are able to live on campus. Despite a rising demand for on-campus housing among graduate students, the supply of available space — most of which is dated and not renovated — has remained constant for decades. And the...
