Yale Daily News

As colleges focus on how to adapt to Donald Trump's presidency, endowments may face intense scrutiny.

November 29, 2016

Here, the News breaks down how Clinton and Trump differ on the major challenges facing American universities.

November 8, 2016

“Hillary’s life is really a reflection of coming of age in the 1960s,” said Alan Schechter, a political science professor at Wellesley and former academic advisor to Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. “The key to understanding Hillary in term[s] of why she went to Yale and what she did after Yale is really key to understanding her whole [life].”

November 8, 2016

Rae Na Lee ’19, an undergraduate from Seoul, South Korea, died Friday morning at her home in New Haven. She was 20 years old.

November 4, 2016

Yale reported strong financial results for fiscal 2016 last Wednesday, maintaining a trend of consistent performance despite a challenging financial and political environment.

November 3, 2016

The construction of Benjamin Franklin College and Pauli Murray College marks the most significant addition — both in terms of size and expenses — to Yale’s residential quarters in recent history, city records suggest.

November 2, 2016

Despite Harvard’s endowment returns lagging behind its peers in recent years, a 2015 internal review leaked to Bloomberg News suggests that the school’s investment office had set performance targets low enough to ensure high pay for some of its managers.

October 31, 2016

Despite varying socioeconomic statuses, nearly 67 percent of the survey’s 2,054 respondents identified as either “liberal” or “very liberal,” and 80 percent of all respondents intend to vote for Hillary Clinton LAW ’73.

October 28, 2016

Harvard and Yale have joined peers including Boston University and Stanford University in moving away from certain fossil fuel investments. However, like every other Ivy League college, Yale has not committed to a policy of blanket divestment from the coal industry.

October 28, 2016

Despite posting its lowest endowment returns last year since the financial crisis, Yale is projected to spend $1.2 billion of endowment funds on the 2017 operating budget, the highest level of endowment spending in Yale’s history.

October 27, 2016

Views on campus issues surrounding diversity and inclusion are divided along distinctly partisan lines, a News survey suggests.

October 26, 2016