Yale Daily News

Yale isn’t the only university looking for a new leader — and recent presidential turmoil across the country may be changing Yale’s search calculus.

January 22, 2024

Starting in the 2024-2025 academic year, the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid will implement a new, personal financial aid counseling model. The change comes after months of student complaints about long wait times and unresponsiveness.

January 22, 2024

In an announcement to the Yale community on Jan. 16, Maytal Saltiel was named the new University Chaplain. She will be the eighth chaplain for the University and the first Jewish chaplain.

January 18, 2024

In a Tuesday statement to the Harvard community, Claudine Gay announced her immediate resignation as Harvard’s president. Her departure comes as she continues to face criticism for her responses during a Dec. 5 Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism as well as allegations of plagiarism.

January 2, 2024

Of 7,856 early action applicants, Yale College admitted 709 students to the class of 2028 — the lowest early acceptance rate in the history of Yale’s current non-binding early action program.

December 14, 2023

After an individual lodged a Palestinian flag in a menorah on the New Haven Green during a protest on Saturday, city officials and faith leaders condemned the act as hateful — as did protest organizers and Yale in a University statement.

December 12, 2023

Amid student demands that Yale divest from weapons manufacturers, University President Peter Salovey told the News that he would not intervene in the current process by suggesting that the Yale Corporation divest. He called the current process by the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility to revisit the University’s 2018 policy “robust” and said that he does not want to “prejudge the process.”

December 8, 2023

In a Thursday statement to the News, Yale President Peter Salovey updated his response to a question asked to three peer presidents during the Tuesday Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism; he suggested in his full answer that calls for genocide of the Jewish people would violate Yale’s policies. Salovey’s response is more forceful than those of the three other presidents, whose institutions are now facing a Congressional investigation into campus antisemitism.

December 7, 2023

A Thursday morning email to the Yale community by University President Peter Salovey outlined a series of actions that Yale will take to address antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus. Among the actions is also the hiring of a second Muslim chaplain and the announcement of increased funding for kosher dining at Slifka.

December 7, 2023

University President Peter Salovey was not called to represent Yale in the hearing held by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, at which the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT testified. He told the News that he does not know why he was not asked to testify.

December 7, 2023

A News survey and analysis of the backgrounds of Yale’s recruited athlete population found an overrepresentation of white and private-school students relative to the overall Yale College population.

December 5, 2023