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.

from washingtonpost.com It took 109 years, but Yale’s storied a cappella group just got its first female singer By Julie Zauzmer – Feb. 8th, 2019   When Sofia Campoamor was a ninth-grader at Washington’s Sidwell Friends School, a special-guest group dropped by her chorus class: the Whiffenpoofs, the oldest college a cappella group in the country. The members of the singing group told Campoamor and her friends about their astounding opportunity — a one-year trip around the…

from USA Today Nathan Chen balances Yale studies with third U.S. figure skating championship By Christine Brennan  | Jan. 27th, 2019 DETROIT — This was going to be a year of transition for reigning world champion and Olympic team bronze medalist Nathan Chen. At 19, he was heading across the country to college. Southern California was behind him. Yale beckoned. This was going to be a grand experiment: he was trying to be a full-time…

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/24/texas-endowment-surpasses-yales/ Texas endowment surpasses Yale’s By Lorenzo Arvanitis – Jan. 24th, 2019 Yale no longer has the second largest endowment among institutions of higher education. The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company announced last month that the joint endowment it manages for two schools — University of Texas and Texas A&M University — surged to $30.9 billion, surpassing Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment during the 2018 fiscal year which ended on June 30. Texas’ high returns were largely…

from Yale News Yale, other schools file amicus brief on ‘unlawful presence’ visa change January 17, 2019 Yale University has joined with more than 60 other institutions of higher education in filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina about the Department of Homeland Security’s new policy regarding the calculation of “unlawful presence” for international students. Under the new policy,…

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/17/students-can-now-register-as-non-binary-with-sis/ Students can now register as non-binary with SIS by Jever Mariwala, January 17, 2019, Staff Reporter, Yale Daily News Students can now change their registered gender in the University Student Information System, University Registrar Emily Shandley announced in an email to the Yale community Wednesday. The policy change arrived two months after the Trans Rights Coalition at Yale — a newly formed group of Yale-affiliated organizations — launched a petition calling on University President Peter…