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Yale Schwarzman Center opens its doors

Yale students were introduced to the Schwarzman Center with lunch in Commons on Wednesday and will now be able to experience the center’s many gathering spaces and arts offerings.

September 2, 2021

ISAAC YU, ROSE HOROWITCH & JULIA BIALEK
Yale dorms, some buildings lose power, flood

Heavy rain brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused all Yale residential colleges and some other buildings to lose power and some to flood.

September 2, 2021

KAREN LIN, JULIA BIALEK & JORDAN FITZGERALD
Shopping Period 101

Here's the News' guide to shopping period!

September 2, 2021

Shopping Period WED DATES Sept. 1: Classes Begin; Add/Drop Period Begins Sept. 3: Open enrollment begins for remaining seats in discussion and lab sections Sept. 15: Add/Drop Period Ends; Registration worksheets in YCS close. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Students must enroll in between four and five-and-a-half credits. They may take a minimum of credits or up to six credits but must receive permission from their residential college dean to do so. Failure to enroll in both a course and its corresponding lecture or lab section by Sept. 15 will result in a $20 fine. Students must complete all the work for the classes they are shopping. Oct. 29, 2021, is the last day to withdraw from a fall full-term course without the course appearing on a student’s transcript. Dropping a class incurs a $20 fine. Unlike previous years, early course registration now takes place at the end of the prior semester, though Yalies can still add or drop courses from their schedule for the first two weeks of the term. Students have six opportunities to use the Credit/D/Fail option — two that expire after their first year, and four that can be used at any point. The deadline to convert a course from a letter grade to Credit/D/Fail is Dec. 10, 2021. ADDITIONAL TIPS FOR SHOPPING PERIOD Some students shop lots of classes, and others do not shop at all — there is no right choice for everyone. Apply for classes early, even if you are unsure about your schedule, but avoid taking a spot in a class you do not actually want to take. Sometimes, last-minute schedule fillers will be your favorite classes. Do not get distracted by the allure of shopping classes. Keep up with the work, because it does affect final grades.
JULIA BIALEK & JORDAN FITZGERALD
In-person classes begin with COVID-19 still looming

As students return to in-person classes for the first time in almost 18 months, University officials are closely watching the Delta variant and how it may affect instruction and other plans.

September 2, 2021

AMELIA DAVIDSON
Class of 2025 arrives on campus as Yale’s largest incoming class, sets records for diversity

The class of 2025 is one of the most diverse in recent years and the largest incoming class in recent history.

September 1, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY & ROSE HOROWITCH
FAS Senate solicits faculty feedback about return to in-person teaching

The University Provost clarified accommodation policies and mask guidelines ahead of the term’s start.

August 31, 2021

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MADISON HAHAMY
Ethnicity, Race and Migration to hire two tenure track positions

Latinx studies and Native American and Indigenous studies at Yale under the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program will both receive one new faculty member.

August 31, 2021

JULIA BIALEK
Students in McClellan Hall being relocated to Omni to make room for isolation housing

The change, announced five days before the start of the fall semester, is affecting 49 students in mixed-college housing, and no definitive timeline has been established for their return to McClellan.

August 30, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH
Admin stands behind in-person classes, restricted social gatherings ahead of fall term

In a Thursday town hall, University leaders expressed optimism for term but left open the possibility of a more transmissible variant emerging.

August 28, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH
Yale selects Matthew Mendelsohn ’07 to lead its Investments Office

Mendelsohn will succeed David Swensen GRD ’80, who had served as Mendelsohn’s mentor since 2007.

August 26, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
Donald Kagan — former classics, history professor and dean — dies at 89

Kagan, known as a defender of conservative values on campus, served as Sterling professor emeritus of classics and history and was a former dean of Yale College.

August 14, 2021