from dwighthall.org Sam Slie, emeritus Dwight Hall at Yale board member, Dies at 93 A service celebrating the life of The Rev. Dr. Samuel Nathaniel Slie will be held Saturday, March 23, at 12:30pm, in Battell Chapel, in New Haven, where for decades he served as Associate Pastor of The Church of Christ in Yale University. A much beloved pastor, a friend to thousands, and a beacon for interfaith cooperative ministry, Sam died peacefully at…

   from washingtonpost.com FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme by  Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky | March 12  The Justice Department on Tuesday charged more than 30 wealthy people — including two television stars — with being part of a long-running scheme to bribe and cheat to get their kids into big-name colleges and universities. The alleged crimes included cheating on entrance exams, as well as bribing college officials to say…

from washingtonpost.com Opinion by Mitch Daniels | Mar. 11th, 2019 Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in November 2015. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana. A growing staple on the menu of most colleges and universities is the opportunity to study abroad, through which a student earns credits by traveling to a foreign land for coursework…

Fifteen Yale University students have been cited for trespassing following a demonstration in which they called for the university to divest from fossil fuel companies and companies that hold Puerto Rican government debt.

Many Americans want a new national story: How about this one? by Jim Sleeper,  salon.com |  Feb. 25th, 2019 The 18 Yale students who crowded into a seminar room one September morning in 1999 for a course entitled “New Conceptions of American National Identity” didn’t know what they were in for. Nor did I, their instructor. Nor did most Americans know what the nation itself was in for, as we know now, 20 years later.Or…

nypost.com Inside the training program that helped launch Gillibrand’s political career By Frank Ryan  | Feb. 23rd, 2019 In 2005 an ambitious young lawyer attended a five-day intensive training program at Yale University. The short but grueling schedule at the Women’s Campaign School was packed with workshops on polling, fundraising, public speaking, handling the press — and makeup. Eighteen months later, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was serving in the House of Representatives, her first step in…

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut, comes as universities across the country have been trying to crack down on bad behavior by fraternities, from binge drinking and sexual harassment to abusive hazing rituals that have led to several deaths. Aware that their image has been tarnished, fraternities have often been partners with universities in trying to change party culture.