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News
How’s that privilege doing? Here’s a report from Class Colloquium 5: Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap
ByJohn O'Leary October 1, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is a summary and video of Professor Markovits’ presentation and Q&A .
The first Colloquium featuring a speaker from the Yale faculty didn’t shy away from challenging some basic assumptions about our “elite education.”
Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits brought his new book, his grasp of econometrics, and his A-game to our September 30th Class Colloquium.
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Memories
Yale Loses A Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”
ByTimothy Weiskel July 23, 2020April 22, 2023
I wanted to share a short “In Memorium” note for one of the professors who taught us while we were at Yale. His name is Prosser Gifford. He went to Hotchkiss School and then Yale and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then, after a stint at Harvard Law School, he returned to finish a PHD in history at Yale and start teaching African History as an Assistant Professor. The reason why he was…
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