from the New York Times By Tina Rosenberg Ms. Rosenberg is a co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which supports rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. Last week in the studio where he tapes the “Albasheer Show,” Ahmed Albasheer put on a dark presidential hat and a jacket covered in an absurd amount of medals and gold braid, and sat at his desk in an office adorned with the seal of the president of the…
When a 52-year-old retired Navy SEAL enrolled at Yale University, becoming the oldest member of the class of 2023, he was apprehensive about joining the “liberal snowflakes” in their “safe spaces.”
James Hatch, who was wounded during a 2009 mission to find US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan, said in a Medium post that he found his first class of the semester “absolutely terrifying” and …
from NY Times See also pro and con articles on Vox and Wall Street Journal Climate Change Protesters Disrupt Yale-Harvard Football Game By Britton O’Daly, Nov. 23, 2019 NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Climate change activists stormed the field at the Yale-Harvard football game on Saturday afternoon, disrupting the game at halftime in a protest to call attention to the universities to divest their investments in fossil fuels. A group of about 70 protesters took…
from The New Haven Independent Yale To Move, Replace Historic Building by Thomas Breen | Nov 21, 2019 Yale plans to move an historic two-story Trumbull Street building a few hundred feet down the block — and then build in its stead a new four-story building for the university’s Economics Department. Yale Senior Program Planner James Elmasry and Associate Vice President for New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker presented those construction and relocation plans Wednesday night…
Yale student fights against his mom’s possible deportation By CLAUDIA TORRENS, Associated Press Published: November 15, 2019 NEW YORK — A Yale University graduate student is constantly watching his phone as he waits for news on his mother, who is detained and could be deported to Honduras, a country where he says she won’t get the medical treatment she needs as a survivor of stage-four cancer. Cristian Padilla Romero, a 24-year-old doctoral student, created an…
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.
When I graduated in 1969, I stayed in New Haven for a summer job, waiting to go into Navy OCS in the Fall. I signed up to be a reunion clerk because it was VERY good money ($100/day!!) and a lot of fun.
I was assigned to the Class of 1909, which was celebrating its 60th reunion in JE. While I was bartending, under the tent, an old man came up to me and asked, “So, you’re a student, just graduated, right?”
Yale’s 50th Anniversary of The Superwomen In April 1969, five months after Yale University announced it was becoming coeducational, its first female undergrads got stuck with a nickname they would never quite shake. The university announced in late 1968 that it would accept women as undergraduate students starting the next academic year, and the following spring, The New York Times Magazine published a feature by a Yale student about the selection process for Yale’s first…
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…
