Jessica Marsden
JESSICA MARSDEN
Harvard may alter curriculum

Harvard is considering replacing its undergraduate core curriculum with a system of distributional requirements very similar to that in place at Yale. The Harvard Committee […]

November 5, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Anthro. department will lose Rebhun

Anthropology professor Linda-Anne Rebhun will leave Yale at the end of this year, becoming the fourth professor expected to leave the department. The Tenure Appointments […]

November 5, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Graduate school sees enrollment increase

Yale followed a national trend last academic year with a slight expansion of its graduate school population, though its international student population decreased slightly, according […]

November 3, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
School of Music will waive fees

Beginning next year, students at the Yale School of Music will no longer have to pay tuition, due to a recent $100 million anonymous donation. […]

November 2, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
YCIAS pursues new profs

Officials at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies said they plan to fill three new senior faculty positions in international studies by next […]

October 28, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Chinese grad student retains fellowship

Xuemei Han GRD ’09 will be allowed to transfer to the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies without giving up her fellowship funding, after that […]

October 27, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Graduate students allege discrimination

A number of Chinese graduate students have recently claimed that the English proficiency exam Yale uses to screen prospective teaching assistants is unfair. The students, […]

October 25, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
GESO claims discrimination

About 60 members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization staged a rally Thursday to protest what they said was discrimination against Chinese graduate students […]

October 21, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Language enrollment increases

With new foreign language requirements for the Class of 2009, high Advanced Placement scores are no longer a ticket out of language classes for freshmen […]

October 19, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Faculty mentoring still varies by department

One year after Yale launched an effort to create stronger mentoring programs for non-tenured professors, departments are implementing a wide array of initiatives and a […]

October 17, 2005

JESSICA MARSDEN
Report praises Grad School

Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was recognized in a report last month for three programs designed to improve diversity, student life and graduate-student […]

October 13, 2005