Effect of academic changes unclear
Yale College Dean Mary Miller said the committee will not deliver a conclusive analysis of the CYCE changes’seffects when it presents its report to the faculty in November.
College seminars begin to expand
After a sharp decrease in course offerings last year, the residential college seminar program is looking for ways to expand.
Committee rethinks faculty counts
Yale’s faculty and administration are reassessing an outdated system used to keep tabs on the number of full and assistant professors in each department.
Miller visits Navy base
Miller pays visit to NROTC. Less than a year before the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) arrives on campus, administrators paid a visit on Monday to the training ground for sailors at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, CT.
UP CLOSE | Grad School scrutinized
Graduate school administrators’ focus on cost and performance at their schools present a particular challenge to humanities programs.
Miller MUS ’07 inspired through music
John Miller MUS ’07 was remembered by colleagues and friends from around New Haven and Yale as a unique advocate for music education in public schools.
Peer educators to tackle sexual consent
This fall, Yale College is launching a new peer education program that send trained, paid students into residential colleges to lead workshops that teach peers how to identify and prevent sexual misconduct.
Blue Book in its last year
When students gather in common rooms and butteries for “bluebooking parties” next fall, they will not be using Blue Books.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001...
This week, University faculty and administrators looked back on September 11th in interviews with the News. Here, in their own words, are their stories from that day.
Yale pushes online frontier
Three Yale Summer Session professors taught their course material not only to students in New Haven, but also to Yalies thousands of miles away.
Unregistered groups unwelcome at bazaar
John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, said that unregistered student groups have never technically been allowed to participate in the bazaar. This year, though, Meeske said he chose to enforce the rule.
Gender ratio flips for 2015
16 of 18 freshmen interviewed said the Title IX investigation did not phase them as they considered which college to attend.
Consent workshops revamped
The University's efforts to teach freshmen about sexual consent and sexual misconduct have met with mixed reviews.
Shopping Period Dispatch: Finding love in developing countries
Love comes with phone service. Good looks, good humor, the ability to do multivariable calculus — these are all things Yalies look for in potential boyfriends or girlfriends. But Rakesh Mohan '71, former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a Jackson Institute fellow, had different priorities when he began dating his wife, he told students in his course called "
Alums dig DS for Life
A cohort of 14 Yale parents and alumni — plus one alum's spouse — ranging in age from roughly 30 to 90 gathered on campus for two weeks in May to pore over Greek texts as part of the Directed Studies for Life course.
Pollard releases statistics
Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard released a wealth of little-known data, including admissions statistics and information on student outcomes.
Pollard suggests fixes for Grad School
Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard spent a year combing through Yale’s 60 graduate programs. He released his findings to students and faculty Thursday, but some professors said some of Pollard’s recommended improvements might be best suited to the science programs that Pollard — a biologist — knows best.
Professor denied appointment at Yale sues CIA and FBI
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Juan Cole, a noted Middle East expert and outspoken critic of the Israeli government who was denied a faculty appointment at Yale in 2006, sued the CIA and FBI on Wednesday.
Anti-Semitism initiative to end
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The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA), which has operated since 2006, will not continue next year, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies Donald Green said in a statement.
UChicago registrar named new Yale registrar
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UPDATED: 1:46 p.m. Gabriel Olszewski, currently university registrar at the University of Chicago, will become University registrar at Yale July 18, Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News Monday morning.
DKE sanctions may prove difficult to implement
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Even though Yale's undergraduate disciplinary body has issued sanctions against Delta Kappa Epsilon resulting from an inflammatory public pledge chant in October, it is still unclear whether the University will have any sway over the future of the fraternity.
Seven professors promoted
The Board of Permanent Officers has promoted seven professors, Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News. See the list below:
University confers 2,907 degrees at 310th Commencement
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Yale University conferred 2,907 degrees — 1,251 to undergraduates — and awarded another 229 provisionally to students in the Law School and in the School of Medicine’s Physician Associate Program, who have not yet completed their courses of study.
Tom Hanks spotted on Chapel; Martin Scorsese in front of JE (UPDATED)
Class Day speaker Tom Hanks was spotted strolling down Chapel Street shortly after 11 a.m. with a group of Yale students and faculty.
Small percentage of grades missing
Less than a full day after the deadline for professors to submit second semester grades, students are missing only a small percentage of their final marks.
Faculty approve new ROTC resolutions
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This evening, Yale College faculty did their part to help "clear the way" for the return of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to Yale.
NRC changes boost Yale rankings
The accuracy of a controversial set of rankings of doctoral programs by the National Research Council has been questioned since their release in September 2010. Now, two waves of corrections issued last month in response to criticism have boosted the ranks of several of Yale’s graduate programs.
Committee finds academic improvement
The committee charged with assessing reform to Yale’s curriculum is nearly done with its report, but says it is hard to measure the effects of the 2005 changes to academic requirements.
Yale to offer Dutch
Students will hear a new language in classrooms next year.
Faculty to vote on ROTC rules
A faculty committee on ROTC released a report Thursday recommending that Yale College amend the four resolutions approved by the faculty in 1969 which led to the discontinuation of ROTC at Yale.
Chemistry to alter course offerings
Students hoping to take chemistry courses next year will encounter some changes in course options. A year after the chemistry department restructured its undergraduate major requirements, the department will put a greater emphasis on life sciences in organic chemistry and provide students greater flexibility in fulfilling introductory requirements.
ROTC one step closer to returning
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The Faculty Committee on ROTC, which Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced March 29, released its report Thursday recommending that Yale College amend the four resolutions approved by the faculty in 1969, which led to the discontinuation of ROTC at Yale.
Teaching Awards announced
George Levesque announced the six recipients of Yale College’s 2011 teaching awards to the News Tuesday.
Teaching awards announced
George Levesque, assistant dean of academic affairs, announced the six winners of Yale College's 2011 teaching prizes to the News today. George Levesque, assistant dean of academic affairs, announced the six winners of Yale College's 2011 teaching prizes to the News today. Yale College Dean Mary Miller will hold a public reception to celebrate the winners on Monday, April 25, at 5:30 pm in the Linonia and Brothers Room of Sterling Memorial Library.
Three Yalies win Pulitzers
Three Yale alums — New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt ’95, Times investigative reporter Ellen Barry ’93 and historical biographer Ron Chernow ’70 — were announced as winners of the Pulitzer Prize Monday.
Yale changes ExComm guidelines
The University has changed its undergraduate regulations to follow clarified Title IX guidelines from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
Carrying our own weight
Yale students have many priorities — finishing waves of essays, rehearsing melodies for a cappella concerts, filling out countless job applications — so finding time to sleep, exercise and eat right can often become secondary. During these four years as undergraduates, how bad of a beating are our bodies really taking? And will we pay for it later on down the road?
Miller memorializes Dufault '11
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In a tribute to Michele Dufault '11, Yale College Dean Mary Miller sent the following statement to the News Wednesday evening. Before her appointment as dean in October 2008, Miller served as Dufault's master in Saybrook College.
Gourmet Heaven
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Sunlight begins to trickle overtop the bundled roses and past the rows of potato chips until it seems to collect with a concentrated gleam on the silver metal of the buffet bar — and day begins at Broadway’s Gourmet Heaven. Or was it just ending?
Univ. to revise sexual misconduct policies
The University will change the burden of proof required to find an accused party guilty of sexual misconduct following the Department of Education’s clarification of Title IX regulations earlier this month, a member of the Office of the Vice President and General Counselsaid Tuesday.
“Strategy sessions” examine sexual climate
A week-long series of informal meetings between students, faculty and administrators could contribute to an improved sexual climate on campus if organizers have their way — and according to three legal experts, federal investigators may lead the University in similarly focused efforts to ensure compliance with Title IX.
Students found climate nonprofit
When Max Webster ’12 fled his home on the gulf coast of Mississippi in the face of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with only a change of clothes, he had no idea would that he would next see his house on television, collapsed amid the wreckage of the natural disaster.
Measuring the breadth of the new UWC
The University-Wide Committee surged toward completion this week, and administrators still seem to be catching up with the rapid changes.
Administrators believe Yale did not violate Title IX, Miller says
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Yale College Dean Mary Miller said that administrators believe they have not violated Title IX in a Wednesday night email to parents of undergraduates.
Six professors promoted
Six professors were selected for promotion at Wednesday's Board of Permanent Officers meeting, Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News.
Yale acts on sex grievance overhaul
Administrators sent a flurry of updates about a federal investigation into the University’s possible violations of Title IX to the Yale community Wednesday night, and officially announced a new campus-wide grievance procedure.
Salovey to announce new committee on sexual misconduct
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In an e-mail to be sent to faculty and students tonight, Provost Peter Salovey will officially announce the creation of a new centralized sexual misconduct grievance procedure, streamlining the previous system of separate complaint procedures across the schools of the University.
Miller updates on Title IX investigation
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Updated: 9:34 p.m. | Yale College Dean Mary Miller provided an update about recent developments involving the federal investigation into accusations of a hostile sexual environment on campus in an e-mail sent to Yale students and parents tonight.
New science courses in the works
Students could soon see changes to introductory science courses. During the next academic year, the Center for Scientific Teaching, which was founded by molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Jo Handelsman in January 2010, will direct the design of at least one new introductory science course for the 2012-2013 academic year that will incorporate Handelsman’s “evidence-based” teaching methods.
Admins mull grad teaching center expansion
Nestled in a corner of the Hall of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Teaching Center is looking to broaden its reach and extend its services to professors across the University. Such a project, said Provost Peter Salovey, could be appealing to a donor.
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