Vivian Yee
Departments dip into reserves

Yale’s departments are breaking open their piggy banks. In addition to imposing a 7.5 percent cut to all general operating budget funds, the University is […]

Univ. borrows more to finance campus construction

With a bond sale beginning today, Yale is raising the funds to complete ongoing construction projects, even as the University cuts its capital spending budget […]

Dartmouth to lay off 76 employees

As Yale staff members wait to find out whether they will keep their jobs this year amid the University’s latest layoffs, Dartmouth is eliminating about […]

Harkness on track to be finished by early May

Harkness Tower is on track to emerge from its blue tarp and steel scaffolding a few weeks earlier than was previously announced, a facilities director […]

Grad School braces for cuts

In response to Wednesday’s announcement that, to save money, Yale will reduce the number of new doctoral students admitted to the Graduate School of Arts […]

Administrators freeze own salaries

As University President Richard Levin and Provost Peter Salovey searched for places to reduce Yale’s expenses in order to close this year’s $100 million budget […]

NY Times subscriptions among possible cuts at Brown

Brown might cut the newspapers in its dining halls, too. Faced with the need to make $30 million in budget cuts for the 2010-’11 year, […]

New cuts to affect academics

The University will cut into both administrative services and academic programs and lay off more staff starting this year as it seeks to recover a […]

New round of cuts to affect academics

The University will cut into core academic programs and lay off more staff starting this year as it seeks to recover a budget deficit of […]

Yale among America’s ‘worst managed endowments’

To many of his peers at other universities and on Wall Street, Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen can do no wrong. Under the investment […]

Donors researched, not vetted

When the development office identifies a potential major donor, the fundraisers open up a new file, which they spend hours filling with research into the […]