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from Wall Street Journal Opinion Cold Welcome for Veterans on Campus Students at elite colleges seek to undermine the values that service members signed up to defend. By Rob Henderson November 10, 2019 ‘But don’t you ever feel like a sucker for serving?” A fellow military veteran asked me this question a couple of years ago, when I was a senior at Yale. Like me, he had recently completed his service and was studying at…

from News12, Connecticut One-day class teaches women with passion for politics The Women’s Campaign School at Yale University offered a one-day class for women with a passion for politics in Danbury. The class is sponsored by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation which focuses on advancing economic security of women and girls in Fairfield County. A boot camp for women was held Saturday to learn the next steps to make the decision to launch their political careers….

from The Wall Street Journal, 11/8/2019 Higher Education’s Enemy Within An army of nonfaculty staff push for action and social justice at the expense of free inquiry. By José A. Cabranes Nov. 8, 2019 5:25 pm ET Editor’s Note: Judge Cabranes serves on the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was Yale’s first general counsel, and later served as a trustee of Yale, Columbia and Colgate universities. This is adapted from remarks delivered Oct….

from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/upshot/yale-first-women-discrimination.html by: Claire Cain Miller, 10/30 A new survey and book show that for organizations to diversify, it’s not enough to let new people in. The institutions have to change, too. When the first undergraduate women to be admitted to Yale arrived on campus 50 years ago this fall, they were outnumbered seven to one. To prepare, Yale installed full-length mirrors in the women’s dorm rooms and, to the dismay of many men,…

From Time, Inc. She Was in a Secret Society at Yale. Her Latest Novel Explores the Dark and Mysterious World of the Ivy League by Annabel Gutterman October 8, 2019 Leigh Bardugo has built new and unrecognizable worlds full of evil, darkness and monsters in her best-selling young adult novels. But in her adult debut, she presents a more frightening premise — a bone-chilling story that brings dark magic to our own world. Ninth House,…

“Diversity” is the most powerful word in higher education today. No other has so much authority. Older words, like “excellence” and “originality,” remain in circulation, but even they have been redefined in terms of diversity.

from Yale News   By Mike Cummings July 30, 2019 Yale Daily News coverage of Coeducation Week, an event in November 1968 during which more than 750 women from 22 colleges visited campus to attend classes and live in the residential colleges. (Photo credit: Dan Renzetti) On Dec. 22, 1783, Yale President Ezra Stiles interviewed Lucinda Foote, the 12-year-old daughter of an alumnus. Her intellect and knowledge impressed him. Stiles confided to his diary that…

from Inquisitr Elected Officials Don’t Care About The Opinions Of Their Constituents At All, Yale University Study Finds Study surveyed more than 2,300 state legislators, finding that party loyalty was much more important to them than the views of their constituents. When asked how he expects to pass some of his proposed, sweeping legislation such as his “Medicare for All” and “free college tuition” proposals, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders often responds that he intends to…

from https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/marie-borroff/121410 Marie Borroff Tue, 07/16/2019 – 8:45am Marie Borroff, distinguished scholar, poet, translator and teacher of English literature, and one of the pioneering women at Yale University, died at her Branford, Connecticut, home on July 5.  She was 95. A long-time summer resident of Boothbay Harbor, this is the first summer in 70-some years she was not able to view the scene she loved so well, across Bottle Cove to Indiantown Island, Ebenecook, and…

Charles A. Reich, who as a 42-year-old Yale Law School professor swapped button-down Brooks Brothers shirts for hippie beads and vaulted to intellectual celebrity by venerating the counterculture in his manifesto, “The Greening of America,” died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 91.

YALE UNIVERSITY has elected its first-ever black student body president.

Kahlil Greene is the first black person appointed to the role in the prestigious university’s 318-year history.

As the president of the student body, Greene will be responsible for addressing issues faced by undergraduates on campus.