Jordan Fitzgerald
Staff Reporter
@jordtwitzgerald | jordan.fitzgerald@yale.edu
Jordan Fitzgerald serves as a University editor for the News. She previously edited for WKND and wrote about admissions, financial aid & alumni. She is a senior in Trumbull College majoring in American history.
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LUCY HODGMAN & JORDAN FITZGERALD
Student advocacy groups herald student income contribution elimination as “clear victory”

Yale’s reduction of the student share of financial aid — which does away with the “Student Income Contribution” — came after years of student advocacy.

November 1, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
Yale College to eliminate student income contribution, expand financial aid

Yale will announce changes to its financial aid structure, including eliminating the student income contribution, expanding international tax policy and subsidizing child care.

October 29, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
Federal courts uphold affirmative action in SFFA case that parallels Yale lawsuit

On Oct. 18, federal judge Loretta Biggs of Winston-Salem ruled against Students for Fair Admissions, affirming the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s right to employ […]

October 27, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
2021 OCS Summer Jobs Report records highest number of paid internships and summer research

With the summer now in the rearview, Yale’s Office of Career Services, or OCS, has evaluated how students spent their time away from school. OCS […]

October 14, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
Admissions office resumes on-campus tours

Although Yalies have repopulated the campus for months, prospective students have been unable to visit since March 2020. That changed last week, as Yale tours […]

October 11, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
First “Varsity Blues” trials end in guilty verdict

On Oct. 8, a federal jury in Boston convicted two wealthy fathers charged with frauding admissions offices at elite universities, marking the first guilty verdicts […]

October 11, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
Pakistani courts confirm bail for Yale alum after LGBTQ-inspired photoshoot

Zulfiqar “Zulfi” Mannan ’20 in late August returned home from a Lahore party to find out Pakistani authorities were ready to arrest them for violating […]

October 8, 2021

JORDAN FITZGERALD
‘An energetic and gracious presence’: Timothy Charles Johnson, JE dining hall staff member, dies at 34

Timothy Charles Johnson, a longtime dining hall employee and beloved member of the Jonathan Edwards College community, died last Tuesday. He was 34 years old. […]

September 26, 2021

Timothy Charles Johnson
JORDAN FITZGERALD
Hurricane temporarily shifts some classes online, cancels sessions of others

Flooding and power outages in many Yale buildings forced some professors to move courses online or cancel Thursday class meetings.

September 3, 2021

Standing water in a basement hallway in Jonathan Edwards.
KAREN LIN, JULIA BIALEK & JORDAN FITZGERALD
Shopping Period 101

Here's the News' guide to shopping period!

September 2, 2021

Shopping Period WED DATES Sept. 1: Classes Begin; Add/Drop Period Begins Sept. 3: Open enrollment begins for remaining seats in discussion and lab sections Sept. 15: Add/Drop Period Ends; Registration worksheets in YCS close. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Students must enroll in between four and five-and-a-half credits. They may take a minimum of credits or up to six credits but must receive permission from their residential college dean to do so. Failure to enroll in both a course and its corresponding lecture or lab section by Sept. 15 will result in a $20 fine. Students must complete all the work for the classes they are shopping. Oct. 29, 2021, is the last day to withdraw from a fall full-term course without the course appearing on a student’s transcript. Dropping a class incurs a $20 fine. Unlike previous years, early course registration now takes place at the end of the prior semester, though Yalies can still add or drop courses from their schedule for the first two weeks of the term. Students have six opportunities to use the Credit/D/Fail option — two that expire after their first year, and four that can be used at any point. The deadline to convert a course from a letter grade to Credit/D/Fail is Dec. 10, 2021. ADDITIONAL TIPS FOR SHOPPING PERIOD Some students shop lots of classes, and others do not shop at all — there is no right choice for everyone. Apply for classes early, even if you are unsure about your schedule, but avoid taking a spot in a class you do not actually want to take. Sometimes, last-minute schedule fillers will be your favorite classes. Do not get distracted by the allure of shopping classes. Keep up with the work, because it does affect final grades.
JULIA BIALEK & JORDAN FITZGERALD
In-person classes begin with COVID-19 still looming

As students return to in-person classes for the first time in almost 18 months, University officials are closely watching the Delta variant and how it may affect instruction and other plans.

September 2, 2021