News analysis | Scholarship swayed choice
Last Friday at precisely 2 p.m. in Luce Hall, University President Richard Levin introduced Mary Miller GRD ’81 as the next dean of Yale College. But for Miller, the celebration was just the beginning of a busy weekend of scholarship: By 4:45 p.m., Miller was on a plane to Washington, D.C. for a conference on writing systems and graphic notation of Mayan civilization, one of her areas of expertise.
Her eminence as a scholar was a top factor in pushing Miller over other candidates for the deanship, according to two senior University administrators who spoke on the condition of...
Why does YDN rely so much on anonymous sources these days?