Class Colloquium 5: Professor Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap; September 30th

Class Colloquium 5: Professor Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap; September 30th

ByArthur Segal

Professor Markovits’ provocative bestseller, The Meritocracy Trap, compellingly argues that the Meritocracy system, which began with our generation and governs the period of our own Yale Admissions, has become a system with unintended negative societal consequences.

This Class Colloquium will be our first with a speaker from the Yale Faculty. He will challenge bedrock meritocratic assumptions, and he promises to include some “two-way dialogue.”

Register in advance for the event; details will be emailed to you.

Harvard, Yale enrollments down 20 percent after moving online

Harvard, Yale enrollments down 20 percent after moving online

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from Campus Reform by Ben Zeisloft  Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent on Aug 06, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT One-fifth of Yale and Harvard students will not enroll for the fall semester. Universities across the United States are anticipating drops in enrollment. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 20 percent of Harvard and Yale University students will not re-enroll at the Ivy League schools this fall. An email sent to Harvard students from Dean of the Faculty of Arts…

How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic

How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic

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  How One Student Chose a College During a Pandemic Craig McFarland was accepted by all eight Ivy League schools. At first he committed to Yale, but the ongoing disruptions caused by the coronavirus caused him to change his plans. By Johnny Diaz  July 17, 2020, When he was applying to colleges last year, Craig McFarland of Jacksonville, Fla., aimed high and wide. He received 17 acceptance letters in all, including one from each of the…