Jaeha Jang
Staff Reporter
jaeha.jang@yale.edu
Jaeha Jang covers faculty for the News. He is a sophomore in Pierson College majoring in English and economics.
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JAEHA JANG
Former faculty dean Tamar Gendler to return to teaching next semester

After being passed over for the role of University President and spending a sabbatical in California, Gendler is set to teach two courses in her first semester of full-time teaching in over a decade.

November 14, 2025

JAEHA JANG, OLIVIA WOO & NELLIE KENNEY
Workers rally at lunchtime to pressure Yale in contract talks

Members of Local 34, Yale’s union of clerical and technical workers, protested outside Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall and the School of Medicine amid contract negotiations with the University.

November 13, 2025

JAEHA JANG
Intro economics courses allow AI use for problem sets, change grading

The professors of “Introductory Microeconomics” and “Introductory Macroeconomics” told the News that permitting AI help for problem sets and grading only for completion lets students use the assignments for practice.

November 12, 2025

JAEHA JANG
Student demands for major change in 2015 tested top administrators

President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway faced passionate calls to make Yale more inclusive for students of color. Some students and professors think they should have acted faster.

November 11, 2025

JAEHA JANG & ASHER BOISKIN
One year on, campus remains split on institutional voice policy

Faculty and students expressed mixed opinions about the policy adopted a year ago by University President Maurie McInnis recommending that Yale leaders refrain from commenting publicly on significant issues.

October 31, 2025

JAEHA JANG
MacMillan event examines negative shift in Canadian immigration discourse

In a lunch conversation hosted by the MacMillan Center’s Committee on Canadian Studies, two experts discussed the past and present of Canadian immigration policy.

October 31, 2025

JAEHA JANG
English professors take individual approaches to deterring AI use

In interviews with the News, four professors described the use of artificial intelligence as detrimental to critical thinking.

October 29, 2025

JAEHA JANG & OLIVIA WOO
Directed Studies program to expand next year, dean says

If hiring capacity permits, program spots would increase by as much as 25 percent for the class of 2030, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview.

October 23, 2025

JAEHA JANG
Yale Daily News signs brief saying student detentions chilled speech

An amicus brief signed by 44 student newspapers, including the News, supports The Stanford Daily’s lawsuit against Trump administration officials, which alleged that the arrests of several international students have suppressed protected speech.

October 20, 2025

ASHER BOISKIN & JAEHA JANG
Faculty group urges Yale to reject potential Trump compact offer

In a Thursday email addressed to the Yale community, Yale’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors urged faculty members to ask administrators to reject a possible compact from the Trump administration that they argued would limit the University’s autonomy.

October 20, 2025

JAEHA JANG & ASHER BOISKIN
Yale graduate wins economics Nobel Prize for studying economic growth

Joel Mokyr GRD ’72 ’74, a Northwestern University professor who once declined an offer to teach at Yale, won the prize on Monday morning for his research on innovation-based economic growth.

October 14, 2025