POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
JOSIE REICH
Yale students united against legacy preference, disagree on how to eliminate it

As calls to end legacy preference in admissions intensify, some students told the News that Yale should terminate or scale back the practice, while others expressed enthusiasm for a governmental ban.

April 9, 2024

YOLANDA WANG
Endowment Justice Coalition invites Yale Corporation to town hall, no trustees attend

The town hall called for divestment from military weapons manufacturing and reinvestment into the New Haven community and Yale student life on Wednesday.

April 8, 2024

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Yale Student Mental Health Association hosts annual Mind Over Matter fair

The Yale Student Mental Health Association held its annual mental health fair in Berkeley College on Saturday, featuring booths from various advocacy groups.

April 8, 2024

BEN RAAB
Gendler speaks on Yale antisemitism, Israel-Palestine discourse at New York City event

Gendler — who is one of eight people on the News’ shortlist to be the next Yale president — was one of three keynote speakers at an antisemitism forum held by the Slifka Center and spent much of the night lauding the Yale administration’s approach to campus antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

April 5, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Stanford appoints son of former Yale president Rick Levin as president

Stanford announced Jonathan Levin’s appointment — which will begin on Aug. 1 — on Thursday morning; Yale’s own presidential search is now seven months into the process.

April 5, 2024

NORA MOSES
Women’s Center drops out of conference amid threats of disciplinary action following failure to respond to messages

The Women’s Center voted to indefinitely postpone its annual conference, “Pinkwashing and Feminism(s) in Gaza,” amid separate threats of disciplinary action from administrators, who reached out to board members concerning discrimination complaints due to their lack of response to messages from a student leader of Yale Friends of Israel.

April 4, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Anticipation grows over Yale’s 24th president as search enters seventh month

The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, is set to meet on campus April 20 for its fourth annual meeting as the presidential search enters its seventh month.

April 3, 2024

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ & HAILEY TALBERT
Samuel Moyn to be next Head of Grace Hopper College

The law and history professor will begin his five-year term this summer as current Head of College Julia Adams steps down.

April 3, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Peabody continues repatriation efforts amid opening, new federal regulations

Officials from the Peabody Museum, which opened on March 26, said they remain committed to “culturally responsive collection stewardship” in light of new federal regulations that aim to strengthen the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

April 2, 2024

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
ITS to reduce student Google Drive account storage to five gigabytes

Following a change in Google policy, Yale’s Internet Technology Services will reduce the amount of storage for existing Google accounts by October 2024.

April 1, 2024

MOLLY REINMANN
Former Yale financial aid recipients to potentially receive settlement money

Current and former financial aid recipients are eligible to claim a portion of the $284 million settlement from a price-fixing lawsuit against Yale and sixteen other elite universities.

March 31, 2024