Yolanda Wang
Staff Reporter
yolanda.wang@yale.edu
Yolanda Wang covers Faculty and Academics as well as Endowment, Finances and Donations. Originally from Buffalo, NY, she is a junior in Davenport College majoring in political science.
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YOLANDA WANG
Yale endowment grows 5.7 percent

While Yale’s 2024 fiscal year investment return is slightly up from last year and represents a gain of $2.3 billion, it places Yale second-last among its Ivy League peers.

October 29, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
FAS dean search, transitional preparations underway

The recently formed Search Advisory Committee for the next FAS Dean is gathering community input, while current FAS Dean Tamar Gendler is preparing a descriptive assessment of the FAS for her successor.

October 24, 2024

KARLA CORTES & YOLANDA WANG
Yale community mourns on Oct. 7 anniversary

A year after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza started, Yale community members gathered to mourn lives lost.

October 8, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
Yale to offer Filipino (Tagalog) courses in fall 2025

Following monthslong student advocacy efforts, the Council on Southeast Asian Studies has posted a job advertisement for a Filipino (Tagalog) lector, who initially will be appointed for three years.

September 30, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
Students march for Lebanon and Palestine, block traffic

On Friday, student protesters blocked the College and Grove Street intersection and marched around Yale’s campus in protest of Israel’s military attacks in Lebanon.

September 30, 2024

YOLANDA WANG & JOSIE REICH
Yale Corporation convenes, trustee meets pro-divestment students

A Yale Corporation trustee met with three pro-Palestinian students, who presented a proposal for the University to disclose its investments in military weapons manufacturing, to which the trustee did not commit.

September 30, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
Future of undergraduate human rights program unclear

Human Rights Studies, which suspended applications in fall 2023, may be reinstated as a certificate program through either Yale College or the Jackson School of Global Affairs.

September 26, 2024

JOSIE REICH, YOLANDA WANG & ADAM WALKER
Faculty for Yale panel debates institutional neutrality

The panel featured four pro-neutrality Yale faculty members and Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, who opposes neutrality.

September 19, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
FAS Dean Tamar Gendler to step down in December

The University president and provost will assemble a faculty advisory committee to select a successor for Gendler, who will return to the Yale faculty after completing her term as inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 31.

September 18, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
Yalies4Palestine holds vigil honoring Palestinians killed in Israel-Hamas war

The vigil, which drew around 200 attendees, saw organizers leading Jewish and Muslim prayers and attendees placing around 500 Palestinian flags on the Cross Campus lawn.

September 16, 2024

JERRY GAO, KARLA CORTES & YOLANDA WANG
Yale jumps in FIRE free speech rankings

Yale’s 155 of 257 ranking, which FIRE described as “slightly below average,” is the only one among Ivy League schools above 200.

September 13, 2024