Victor Wang
Staff Reporter
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Committees plan for new colleges

When Yale’s two new residential colleges open their doors in 2017, students — both graduate and undergraduate — and faculty alike will see substantive change. But in planning for the new colleges, administrators are first examining how the expansion will affect each of these groups separately.

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GESO: Students or employees?

Orange picket signs bobbed in the autumn light Thursday afternoon on Beinecke Plaza as over 600 people called, for the fourth time in 18 months, for a Yale graduate student union.

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FAS Senate debates faculty disciplinary procedures

During the first official open meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate on Thursday, senators, FAS professors and administrators debated how the University will adjudicate complaints of violations of the Faculty Standards of Conduct.

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DUSs weigh non-academic advising roles

In the wake of campus sexual climate survey results released by the Association of American Universities last month, several Directors of Undergraduate Studies are considering the non-academic roles they can play to support students confronted with the alarming figures.

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Yale increases engagement with China

Over the past year, Yale has worked to deepen its engagement with China through several initiatives and donations, while over the past decade, more international students have come to Yale from China than any other country.

Uncertain Times

Jessica Yuan ’15 had no idea what kind of salary to expect right out of college for a job in architecture. During her junior year, she thought she might earn $60,000 annually after leaving Yale. But when she finally did the research in the fall of her senior year, she learned that the starting salary for an entry-level architecture job is about half that. She was shocked.

For trans students, health care only first step

Two years after Yale Health extended full coverage of gender-affirmation surgery to students enrolled in the Yale Health Plan as part of a more comprehensive transgender health care package

ESL resources available, but underutilized

When Marco Bonett-Matiz GRD ’16, a 7th-year Ph.D. candidate, organized a series of workshops for physics teaching assistants last year, he noticed that almost all of the Asian TAs stopped attending by the second session. Puzzled at first, Bonett-Matiz later received feedback that his workshops were not tailored for or mindful enough of TAs who did not speak English as their first language.

Scholarship targets low-income Chinese students

The inaugural class of Yale SOHO China Scholars gathered with University officials and donors Saturday to celebrate the launch of the $10 million scholarship program at Yale.

AAU, Yale surveys emphasize barriers to reporting

While the Association of American Universities’ recent campus sexual climate survey was groundbreaking in the amount of data it collected

Study shows flipped classrooms benefit female students

Flipped classrooms, a pedagogical technique becoming increasingly popular in colleges across the nation, has been backed by a Yale-led study published last Tuesday. The study, […]