Yale’s president said a Washington Post story about suicidal students being forced to withdraw ‘misrepresents our efforts,’ but promised improved mental health services and other possible changes By William Wan November 17, 2022 Yale University President Peter Salovey wrote a letter to school alumni Wednesday defending the university’s mental health services and the way it treats suicidal students, while also detailing plans for more resources and possible changes to policy. His letter followed a Washington Post story in…

from NYTimes Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92 After being blacklisted from academia for his antiwar activity, he became an organizer among steel workers in the industrial Midwest.   By Clay Risen Nov. 18, 2022 Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led antiwar protests in Washington and fought for labor rights in the industrial Midwest, died on…

Citing flaws in the way the ratings are determined, the schools said they will stop participating, breaking away from the rankings industry. By Anemona Hartocollis Nov. 16, 2022 In perhaps the biggest challenge yet to the school rankings industry, both Yale and Harvard announced Wednesday that they were withdrawing from the influential U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best law schools. Colleges and universities have been critical of the U.S. News ranking system…

FromWaPO ‘What if Yale finds out?’ Suicidal students are pressured to withdraw from Yale, then have to apply to get back into the university By William Wan November 11, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST Students experiencing suicidal thoughts and other mental health issues say Yale University has pressed them to withdraw from the school. (Stan Godlewski for The Washington Post; iStock/Washington Post illustration) For months, she struggled silently with a sense of worthlessness. She had panic…

from https://news.yale.edu/2022/11/08/war-context-yales-ukraine-course-reaches-global-audience By Susan Gonzalez November 8, 2022 Timothy Snyder (Photo by Dan Renzetti) In the days leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, few people expected an act of such aggression, Yale historian Timothy Snyder told a classroom of students earlier this semester. Looking back now, he said, the fact that the invasion did happen offers an important reminder: seen from the present, history is hard to predict. In fact, Snyder told…

from Forbes John Mariani |  Oct 27, 2022, The Yale Schwarzman Center is one of several dining halls where Yale students have myriad food … [+] YALE HOSPITALITY I’ve never met anyone over the age of thirty who has fond memories of school cafeteria food, except my wife, who grew up in Paris, where a school lunch was three courses, including cheese. Indeed, school food usually compares with airline and hospital food, and in primary and secondary…

  from ESPN – College Football Uniforms Yale will honor 150 years of football history with its threads this weekend. The jersey design is inspired by the Walter Camp era. According to the school’s website, Camp, an 1880 Yale graduate, was a two-time team captain and the head coach from 1888 to ’92. He is considered the father of American football because of his efforts in “reshaping the doctrines of English rugby into American football.” The jerseys are…

from Coindesk Fran Velasquez  |  September 26, 2022 Yale University may offer fewer than half the blockchain-based courses of its Ivy League peer Cornell (though on par with Columbia University), but with a recently announced new investment, the 321-year-old school is about to propel its blockchain research. Yale comes in at TK on CoinDesk’s Best Universities for Blockchain 2022.   2022 Rank (+/- 2021) University Name Total Score Courses Region Regional Rank 34 (NEW) Yale University…