Isaac Arnsdorf
Briefly: Cornell to let faculty shrink to save money

Cornell University’s faculty will be allowed to shrink over the next three years through regular turnover as the school reduces searches and appointments in order […]

Briefly: Penn ups tuition 3.8 percent

Following a 19.4 percent drop in the value of its endowment, the University of Pennsylvania will raise its term bill by 3.8 percent, making the […]

Yale will fire up to 300 staff

New projections on staff attrition indicate that as many as 300 employees could be laid off as Yale copes with the economic downturn, though administrators […]

NEW COLLEGES DELAYED AS YALE CUTS SPENDING

In the face of a bleak economic forecast, the construction of the two new residential colleges will be delayed, along with almost all other construction […]

Woodbridge Hall memo: A decade’s work derailed

Plans for the two new residential colleges were a decade in the making, but it took just a few months to throw them off track. […]

Levin calls for deeper cuts and freezes

The darkening economic forecast has prompted Yale to deepen cuts in next year’s budget and delay almost all planned construction projects, University President Richard Levin […]

D.C. to lend Yale a hand?

Among the lawmakers, lobbyists and other representatives of special interests combing through the $787 billion stimulus package — which President Barack Obama signed into law […]

Meet Richard Jacob, Yale’s lobbyist

Richard Jacob is Yale’s lobbyist. That’s what he calls himself — because that’s what he is. But he’s no Jack Abramoff, dressed like a Chicago […]

ALERT system debuts during power outage

  Shortly before 11:00 a.m. Friday morning, almost every cell phone on campus rang in unison. The call: a Yale ALERT. In response to a […]

Power outage sweeps across campus

  Central campus was plunged into darkness for more than two hours Friday morning due to worn-out equipment in the central circuit breaker. The outage, […]

Yale awaits budget memo

As the University’s annual budget-planning memo gets pushed back another week, department heads are left waiting and wondering how much of Yale’s $100 million budget […]