Yale Daily News

Starting next year, creative writers will have more opportunities at Yale to hone their craft during the summer months. Yale Summer Session will be launching […]

April 26, 2016

When the Association of Yale Alumni was founded in 1972, Yale’s alumni body looked very different than it does now: nearly all members were white and had graduated from Yale in all-male classes.

April 22, 2016

Two Yale students this year were awarded Truman Scholarships, a prestigious grant given to roughly 60 college juniors showing exceptional leadership promise in government and […]

April 22, 2016

With a record-breaking number of applications to Yale College this year, Yale is attracting increasingly more students from underrepresented groups thanks to its targeted outreach, which has evolved over time: Beginning with the Yale Student Ambassador Program 10 years ago, these efforts now comprise targeted mailings and school visits, which are informed by recent research and data.

April 20, 2016

On Friday, representatives from the campus activist group Students Unite Now met with Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi in an effort to persuade him to endorse the group’s stance on eliminating the student effort.

April 19, 2016

The addition of two new residential colleges will necessitate both updates to prospective student outreach and change in the internal decisions of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

April 15, 2016

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions put together a three-day conference this week for leaders from educational nonprofit groups in Africa — the first-ever event of […]

April 15, 2016

With Yale College Council elections on the horizon, all five presidential candidates have made eliminating the student effort a central part of their campaigns — but they have proposed smaller-scale financial aid reforms as well.

April 14, 2016

The month of March featured both unprecedented success and scathing criticism for the Yale men’s basketball team. Weeks later, the potential impact on incoming alumni donations remains unclear: if the team’s historic tournament run could lead to a surge in giving, or if its sexual misconduct controversy could lower donations instead.

April 14, 2016

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has accepted 1,972 students to the class of 2020 from a pool of 31,455 applicants, Yale’s largest-ever pool by more than 500 applications.

April 1, 2016

In light of a controversial proposed state tax on Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment, the University has begun significant outreach to alumni and the general public alike with the aim of defeating the bill.

April 1, 2016