Isaac Yu
Staff Reporter
@isaacyu_ | isaac.yu@yale.edu
Isaac Yu was the News' managing editor. He covered transportation and faculty as a reporter and laid out the front page of the weekly print edition. He co-founded the News' Audience desk, which oversees social media and the newsletter. He was a leader of the News' Asian American and low-income affinity groups. Hailing from Garland, Texas, Isaac is a Berkeley College junior majoring in American Studies.
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ISAAC YU
Child care remains burdensome for Yale’s working parents

Though COVID-19 cases remain low, children have returned to school and the University Provost has announced new benefits, Yale’s working parents say that securing affordable, quality child care remains taxing — and that it disproportionately affects women in the workplace.

November 2, 2021

Mother of two Stacey Bonet said that COVID fears remain in play.
Mother of two Stacey Bonet said that COVID fears remain in play.
ISAAC YU
FAS Senate calls for Yale to put academic freedom safeguards in gift policies

The Senate released its resolution after its investigation into history professor Beverly Gage’s resignation from the Grand Strategy program.

October 29, 2021

ISAAC YU
FAS plans hiring spree as Yale faculty size lags behind peers

The University will aim to fill more than 70 tenure track positions in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in three dozen departments following administrative recommitments to invest in faculty.

October 26, 2021

LUCY HODGMAN & ISAAC YU
With $11.1 billion endowment growth, students and faculty call for revised funding priorities

After the University’s Oct. 14 announcement that its endowment had skyrocketed to $42.3 billion during the 2021 fiscal year, students and faculty weighed in on […]

October 20, 2021

ISAAC YU
Faculty of Arts and Sciences retirements tripled last year, University announces

Forty members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences retired last year, a figure three times higher than in a typical year. Dean of the […]

October 19, 2021

ISAAC YU
FAS welcomes its most diverse set of ladder faculty

Yale welcomed 26 scholars to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this fall — its most diverse cohort ever. The new academics joining the ladder […]

October 15, 2021

ISAAC YU
Yale lawyers file to dismiss Bandy Lee’s free speech suit

Yale’s lawyers have filed to dismiss a free expression case brought against the University by Bandy Lee MED ’94 DIV ’95, a psychiatrist and former […]

October 13, 2021

PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH & ISAAC YU
After resignation, Beverly Gage and fellow Yale faculty sound alarm on academic freedom

After announcing her resignation from the Grand Strategy program, history professor Beverly Gage expressed concerns about the influence donors have over academic expression at Yale. […]

October 6, 2021

ISAAC YU
ProfPods: The Faculty Voices of Yale, Recorded

On the day Yale shut down in March 2020, Scott Shapiro LAW ’90, professor of law and philosophy, was feeling restless. Cut off from his […]

October 4, 2021

Isaac Yu
PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH & ISAAC YU
After donor pressure, Beverly Gage resigns as Grand Strategy director

Updates, Friday, October 1:  In the wake of Beverly Gage’s resignation from the Grand Strategy program’s directorship, faculty coalitions have voiced support for her decision. […]

September 30, 2021

Beverly Gage
ISABELLE QIAN & ISAAC YU
Yale Health sees “unprecedented” number of visits and calls this fall

Dubbed the “Yale Plague,” a non-COVID-19 sickness has spread throughout the student body. Yalies infected with the illness have struggled to make up content for […]

September 29, 2021

Student coughs