Yale Daily News

Birgit Brander Rasmussen will leave the University at the end of this academic year following a controversial promotion review process that some of Rasmussen’s colleagues have alleged was colored by bias against her gender, disability and area of scholarship.

February 4, 2016

Brown University announced on Monday the final draft of its plan to bolster diversity and inclusion on its campus, directing roughly $165 million toward the initiative.

February 4, 2016

Etem Erol, a senior lector in Turkish, passed away after suffering from a heart attack in January while on vacation in Bulgaria. He was born in 1955 and was buried in the town of his birth, Akçay, Turkey. He was 60 years old.

February 2, 2016

A perfect storm of complications has descended upon the popular course “Race and Gender in American Literature,” with staggeringly high student interest creating scheduling confusions and calling attention to yet another expected faculty departure in the field of ethnic studies.

January 29, 2016

The $50 million donation set to transform the aging Hall of Graduate Studies into a modernized humanities hub has excited the imagination of Yale’s faculty.

January 28, 2016

“Yale has problems, serious problems,” Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Richard Bribiescas admitted at a Tuesday evening panel about faculty diversity at the […]

January 27, 2016

Despite the Graduate Employees and Students Organization’s vocal support for racial and gender equality, an open letter written this weekend by women, LGBTQ graduate students […]

January 26, 2016

Yale graduate students seeking unionization may look with interest and expectation at two cases currently before the National Labor Relations Board whose rulings could upend decades of labor law precedent surrounding graduate student employment.

January 25, 2016

Besirevic, who is in the 12th year of her deanship, wrote in an email to the college that she will take on the role of Assistant Dean in academic affairs at the GSAS.

January 22, 2016

Over winter break, Eric Liu ’90 attended a typical Yale gathering in a Seattle teahouse. The meeting, planned to welcome newly admitted Yalies, quickly turned into an three-hour discussion among dozens of current students, alumni and newly admitted high-school seniors that centered around the racial controversies that dominated campus life last fall.

January 22, 2016

Administrators have instituted a range of changes in the Spanish and Portuguese Department — including appointing a new director of graduate studies, mandating sexual harassment training for faculty and temporarily banning recruitment of graduate students — following a review of long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power against senior faculty.

January 21, 2016