Yale Daily News

Graduates of the Class of 2024, family members, and friends: It gives me great pleasure to greet you today and to offer a few words […]

May 20, 2024

Dear Class of 2022,   As I look back on your time at Yale, I am thinking about what Coretta Scott King said about the […]

May 23, 2022

This has been an incredibly challenging year. It sometimes has felt as if everything we know about life at Yale — and life in general […]

May 23, 2021

Editors’ Note: This piece originally appeared in the 2019 First Year Issue, published on August 2, 2019. Dear Class of 2023, Welcome to Yale! You […]

August 9, 2019

Editors’ Note: This piece originally appeared in the 2019 Commencement Issue, published on May 20, 2019. Dear Class of 2019, Commencement is a wonderful opportunity […]

May 20, 2019

“Welcome to Yale!” I enjoy saying these words many times at the start of a new academic year. This year, my greeting has even greater […]

September 5, 2017

Yale’s commitment to its students is long-standing, and I am dedicated to maintaining and strengthening the supports and resources we have in place. We admit students without regard to immigration status, and our financial aid policies assure that no student will be denied an education because of immigration status. These policies will continue.

November 18, 2016

Yale’s motto is “light and truth,” and we cannot seek the truth by hiding it.

April 29, 2016

In recent months, a number of incidents have taken place on the Yale campus that disturb the sense of community most of us value and […]

January 29, 2007

Last November, 5,200 issues of the Yale Free Press, which had been distributed to 11 residential colleges and Swing Space by the paper’s staff, disappeared […]

March 1, 2005