FACULTY & ACADEMICS
HUDSON WARM & BEN RAAB
Global affairs majors bemoan changes to course registration, limited course offerings

Students expressed frustration over a lack of preregistration, unclear information about the department registrar and a limited number of course offerings listed on Yale Course Search.

April 16, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale faculty members weigh in on hunger strike as administration stays silent

Professors expressed concern for hunger strikers’ health while affirming their right to peaceful protest.

April 15, 2024

BEN RAAB
Students petition for Schettini’s contract renewal

Following a post-class discussion in which students learned that Schettini’s contract would not be renewed, current and past students began collecting testimonials and signatories in a document submitted to the FAS last week in support of renewing his contract.

April 9, 2024

TINA LI
Terrance Hayes delivers a reminder that poetry is still a living art 

In the 2024 English Foundational Courses Lecture, poet and teacher Terrance Hayes took a look back on literary traditions found in class syllabi.

April 7, 2024

ISABEL KALB
Yale professor co-authors upcoming book on fighting back against mass incarceration

Three former public defenders, including Yale Law Professor James Forman, are publishing a book of essays on ways to fight for criminal justice reform.

April 5, 2024

BEN RAAB & HUDSON WARM
Fall 2024 courses rollout process slower than last year

Fewer classes are appearing on Yale Course Search for the upcoming semester than did at a similar time of year for previous fall terms.

April 3, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale professor Larry Samuelson added to Russian ban list

Samuelson is now included on a list of 227 Americans who are banned from entering Russian territory.

March 27, 2024

YURII STASIUK & JOSIE REICH
Yale professors reflect on teaching about Ukraine, Eastern Europe amid war

Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yale has started offering more courses about Ukraine, and professors across departments have incorporated the country into their teaching.

March 25, 2024

BEN RAAB & HUDSON WARM
Black engineering students call for increased diversity in SEAS

Just 1.3 percent of faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science identify as Black or African American, compared to five percent across all Yale faculty and six percent among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

March 8, 2024

BEN RAAB
Communist group disrupts Timothy Snyder’s lecture, forces evacuation

Demonstrators accused Snyder, a history professor, of “brainwashing” students about communism and called on him to condemn the United States’ support of Israel amid its war against Hamas in Gaza.

March 1, 2024

HANWEN ZHANG
School of the Environment certificate program sets its sights on urban sustainability

Yale School of the Environment’s new“Urban Climate Leadership” certificate program will provide students with a survey of the challenges and solutions that come with guiding cities toward the future.

March 1, 2024