Matt Kristoffersen
Staff Reporter
matthew.kristoffersen@yale.edu
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MATT KRISTOFFERSEN & KELLY WEI
Low-income art students struggle to pay course fees

Rahshemah Wise ’22 knows what it’s like to worry about money. A Computing and the Arts major who came to Yale as a Questbridge Scholar, […]

January 24, 2020

MARGARET HEDEMAN & MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Art History Department to scrap survey course

Yale will stop teaching a storied introductory survey course in art history, citing the impossibility of adequately covering the entire field — and its varied […]

January 24, 2020

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
FAS Senate debates Lewis’ report

Two weeks after the decision to annul a Yale-NUS program about dissent drew controversy last fall, Vice President for Global Strategy Pericles Lewis published a […]

January 22, 2020

VALERIE PAVILONIS & MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Following Strobel’s appointment, FAS senators hope for better relationship with administration

Shortly after he was named the next University provost in November, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry professor Scott Strobel penned an email to Faculty of Arts […]

January 22, 2020

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN & VALERIE PAVILONIS
Holloway to be president of Rutgers

Rutgers University is expected to name former Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95 as its next president on Tuesday. Pending approval by the […]

January 20, 2020

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
CS50 reflects on regret clause

Recent positive feedback at Harvard University regarding the CS50 “regret clause” — which allows students to retroactively self-report academic dishonesty to skirt large-scale consequences — […]

January 16, 2020

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
FAS senators request more faculty spots

Five years since the latest large-scale increase in the target of filled ladder faculty slots, Faculty of Arts and Sciences senators are calling on the […]

January 15, 2020

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Yale expands faculty diversity funding

Yale’s Faculty Excellence and Diversity Initiative, a University-wide effort to recruit and retain a diversity of professors, will be renewed for an additional five years […]

January 13, 2020

VALERIE PAVILONIS & MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Faculty call for ideological diversity

Despite Yale’s push for increased diversity among faculty members — specifically with regards to demographic categories such as race, gender and sexual orientation — several […]

December 6, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
FAS Senate to discuss divestment

Following the halftime protest at the Yale-Harvard game, Faculty of Arts and Sciences senators are discussing the student activists’ calls for Yale to divest its […]

December 5, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN & VALERIE PAVILONIS
ANALYSIS: Protestors, University struggle to see eye to eye on divestment

More than a week after the halftime protest at Yale-Harvard game drew national attention, activists and the University remain at odds — with the students […]

December 3, 2019

Marisa Peryer