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The 2020-2021 academic year saw the election of two new presidential administrations for the Yale College Council, as well as a renewed advocacy for first-generation, […]

In a March 2021 email to undergraduate students, Dean of Yale College Marvin Chun announced a new registration timeline for the fall 2021 term. Under […]

Due to the large size of the class of 2025, Dean of Yale College Marvin Chun announced changes to housing for incoming first years and […]

Over the past academic year, University President Peter Salovey and the rest of The President’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging have worked with students, […]

The admissions cycle for the class of 2025 was unlike any Yale had seen before, with a test optional policy and an exceptionally large applicant […]

Following a presidential transition, the Biden administration dropped the Department of Justice lawsuit in February. The lawsuit, originally filed last October by then-President Donald Trump, […]

On Oct. 6, 2020, administrators announced their plans for a modified spring term schedule as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, delaying the start of […]

Before bringing students to campus last fall, Yale made a COVID-19 dashboard to track case counts among students, faculty and staff. Throughout the year, Yale […]

In April 2021, following years of student advocacy for improved mental health resources and a rising number of students seeking counseling, University officials announced two […]

University President Peter Salovey and University Provost Scott Strobel are “cautiously optimistic” that fall term will closely resemble the pre-pandemic Yale experience — with in-person instruction […]

In September 2020, Yale fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon disaffiliated from its national chapter and rebranded themselves as a social group called The Edon Club.  The […]

Starting this fall, first year students with disabilities will have access to a new peer liaison program designed to provide them with support as they […]

Special thanks to Miriam Viazmenski ’25, Maelle Tanoh ’25 and Kane Xu ’25 (listed in order of appearance) for sending in videos.

In the past year, a number of Yale affiliates and alumni have been tapped for various prominent positions within the Biden administration.  Yale has historically […]

In April 2021, the University announced a set of new principles that will guide Yale’s investment in the fossil fuel industry, and said that it […]

New Haven’s budget crisis has dominated local political discourse this year, as city politicians and residents deliberated on Yale’s responsibility to help resolve it. New […]

After a summer of reckoning for police departments around the country following the police murder of George Floyd, Black Students for Disarmament at Yale and […]

After over a year of remote learning, New Haven Public School students and teachers are making the switch to in-person education. New Haven Public Schools […]

For the last six months, cities around the country have been grappling with the inequitable rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations. In New Haven, organizations have been […]

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic left many New Haven businesses relying on state assistance to remain open, and others closing their doors.   After Gov. […]

  Throughout the spring term, the University navigated changing federal and state guidelines in an effort to vaccinate students before they left campus. Most Yale […]

Although the few in-person classes offered at Yale may have provided the only relief for rampant cases of Zoom fatigue, the inherent challenges of holding […]

Amid a nationwide effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine produced some of the […]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale’s 14 residential colleges made many changes in their dining hall and facilities operations to abide with Centers for Disease […]

The reopening of most of Yale’s buildings will offer familiarity to returning students who have experienced a large number of closures during the pandemic, but […]

From a towering Brontosaurus skeleton to an ancient egyptian mummy from the 4th century B.C., the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History provides a comprehensive […]

This spring, the Yale Dramatic Association — also known as the Dramat — presented four plays that were staffed, crewed and starred by first year […]

Despite a difficult transition to online operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library attracted more viewers to its online academic […]