Finnegan Schick
Staff Reporter
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Invest by the Book, Divest by the Book?

A few dozen students sit in a lecture hall at the Yale Law School on a Tuesday afternoon.

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Local 34 delivers petition to Salovey and Alpern

Local 34, Yale’s union of clerical and technical workers, petitioned the University on Wednesday to secure the 986 Yale School of Medicine jobs the union says are at risk of disappearing.

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Staff members seek greater inclusion

After a Feb. 22 town hall meeting about the diversity of Yale’s staff, employees and administrators continue to debate the degree to which the University promotes an inclusive workplace.

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Joint brief filed against grad student unions

Alongside eight of its peer institutions, Yale filed an amicus brief on Monday to the National Labor Relations Board to argue against a pending Columbia University case on graduate student unionization.

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Climate change institute shut down

After a University decision to cut all its funding, Yale’s Climate & Energy Institute will close by the end of June.

Yale files joint amicus brief against graduate student unionization

Alongside other elite universities and colleges, Yale filed an amicus brief on Monday to the National Labor Relations Board to argue against a pending Columbia University case on graduate student unionization.

ER&M plays role in ethnic center

The announcement last week of a new Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration has brought greater attention to problems with racial and ethnic studies at Yale, while also shedding light on possible paths for improvement.

Congress questions endowment spending

As tuition costs at the nation’s largest universities rise, Congress is pressuring schools like Yale to spend more from their large endowments on financial aid for low-income students. But University officials said the endowment is a complicated system and these proposals may be misguided.

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FFY protests Corporation

A week after the Yale Corporation met privately inside Woodbridge Hall, Fossil Free Yale held its own meeting on Beinecke Plaza to speak out against the notoriously secretive body.

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Polak: the man behind the money

University Provost Benjamin Polak is a tall man with a small office on Grove Street who oversees Yale’s academic policies and manages the University’s $3 billion operating budget.

Details emerge about NHPS sex assault

A week after New Haven Public School math teacher Kirvanna Jones was arrested on charges of second-degree sexual assault and injury to a minor, further details have emerged about the case.