Yale Daily News

“Music and Social Action” is the first massive open online course launched by the School of Music, but it also stands out in other ways.

March 3, 2016

The Office of Career Strategy recently released data indicating that 94.5 percent of students who responded to the OCS Summer 2015 Activities survey participated in a summer internship that lasted for at least one month. Many of those students used OCS’s Symplicity website to secure the internships, and many used resources including Craigslist and the Facebook page “Yale Summer Housing” to find places to live over the summer. But according to Yuanling Yuan ’16, these decentralized efforts to secure summer jobs and summer housing are “really inefficient.”

March 3, 2016

Since the start of the semester, student activists have remained quiet as Woodbridge Hall moves quickly to implement policies. But administrators have mainly looked inward, and emphasized that students were not primarily responsible for the inception of the initiatives.

March 2, 2016

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday to approve an overhaul of the college’s General Education requirements that will allow students to fulfill as many as half the requirements pass-fail.

March 2, 2016

After a Feb. 22 town hall meeting about the diversity of Yale’s staff, employees and administrators continue to debate the degree to which the University promotes an inclusive workplace.

March 2, 2016

Dinaw Mengestu — acclaimed journalist, essayist and novelist — delivered a lecture titled “The Politics of Aesthetics: The Danger of Writing from the ‘Margins’” Tuesday evening. At the talk, Mengestu meditated on the tendency of the contemporary literary community to believe that incorporating social and political realities into literature invalidates a work’s claim to aesthetic greatness.

March 2, 2016

Since Linda Lorimer, former vice president for global and strategic initiatives, retired last year, some administrators have argued that the University’s global strategy has become less coordinated.

March 1, 2016

After a University decision to cut all its funding, Yale’s Climate & Energy Institute will close by the end of June.

March 1, 2016

This spring break, Yale’s photographers, painters and graphic designers will have the chance to get an authentic taste of the art world, thanks to a new initiative from the Office of Career Strategy.

March 1, 2016

The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival — Yale’s most prominent summertime musical offering — will see its first change of leadership in over a decade at the end of this season.

March 1, 2016

Yale’s Air Force ROTC cadets welcomed a Brittany Spaniel puppy named Nate — after Nathan Hale, a spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolution who graduated from Yale College in 1773 — to their detachment at the beginning of the semester.

March 1, 2016