Yale Daily News

The News obtained a copy of the complete Student Advisory Council report — finalized last week — the contents of which were summarized in an email sent to the Yale community by Senior Trustee of the Yale Corporation Joshua Bekenstein Monday morning.

January 30, 2024

In light of toppled leadership at Harvard and Penn — and after months of silence — Yale’s Presidential Search Committee has refused to disclose where it stands in its process.

January 29, 2024

The head coach position for the Yale baseball team was endowed by Francis “Fay” Vincent Jr. in honor of his father.

January 25, 2024

The United States Department of Education opened a Title VI Shared Ancestry investigation into Yale and four other schools, per the most recent listing of cases by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Yale officials did not clarify the details surrounding what they called the “one specific event” prompting the investigation.

January 24, 2024

Yale isn’t the only university looking for a new leader — and recent presidential turmoil across the country may be changing Yale’s search calculus.

January 22, 2024

In a Tuesday statement to the Harvard community, Claudine Gay announced her immediate resignation as Harvard’s president. Her departure comes as she continues to face criticism for her responses during a Dec. 5 Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism as well as allegations of plagiarism.

January 2, 2024

After an individual lodged a Palestinian flag in a menorah on the New Haven Green during a protest on Saturday, city officials and faith leaders condemned the act as hateful — as did protest organizers and Yale in a University statement.

December 12, 2023

Amid student demands that Yale divest from weapons manufacturers, University President Peter Salovey told the News that he would not intervene in the current process by suggesting that the Yale Corporation divest. He called the current process by the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility to revisit the University’s 2018 policy “robust” and said that he does not want to “prejudge the process.”

December 8, 2023

In a Thursday statement to the News, Yale President Peter Salovey updated his response to a question asked to three peer presidents during the Tuesday Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism; he suggested in his full answer that calls for genocide of the Jewish people would violate Yale’s policies. Salovey’s response is more forceful than those of the three other presidents, whose institutions are now facing a Congressional investigation into campus antisemitism.

December 7, 2023

A Thursday morning email to the Yale community by University President Peter Salovey outlined a series of actions that Yale will take to address antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus. Among the actions is also the hiring of a second Muslim chaplain and the announcement of increased funding for kosher dining at Slifka.

December 7, 2023

University President Peter Salovey was not called to represent Yale in the hearing held by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, at which the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT testified. He told the News that he does not know why he was not asked to testify.

December 7, 2023