Wu-Tang massacres
The members of the Wu-Tang Clan have gotten really good at giving their fans exactly what they want — nothing more and nothing less. This is true of Raekwon’s “Only Built for Cuban Linx… Pt. II,” released last year; it’s true of the albums Ghostface Killah has released in the past few years.
Just the three of us
When you talk to the women who fill the ranks of Yale’s sororities, a few remarks keep popping up. More often, it seems, than any commonplace “sorority girl” stereotype, you hear a more complicated narrative, a love story of sorts.
Do you speak the language of love?
AMMAN, Jordan — Every undergraduate who sets her heart on studying abroad tells herself (and her family, and her friends, and her professors, and the guy standing next to her in line) that she’s looking forward to experiencing a new culture, making friends with the locals and learning to say more in the local language than “a little” in response to the question: “Do you speak [insert language]?”
You’ll never bike alone again
Yale students who are looking to shorten their transit time between classes but are not ready to fork over hundreds of dollars to one of New Haven’s traditional bicycle shops may have a new option, thanks to Cris Shirley ’10: trading labor or a small amount of cash for a used bike from the New Haven Bike Collective.
New majors attract students in first year
Less than a year after their creation last February, the modern Middle East studies and computing and the arts majors are already generating interest among students. But it is still unclear whether the majors will continue to attract students, administrators said.
Salovey’s next step
When asked to share an anecdote that characterizes Peter Salovey’s four-year tenure as dean of Yale College, Deputy Dean Joseph Gordon does not describe a time when the dean delivered a rousing speech, hosted a fundraising event or recruited a coveted faculty member. Instead, he points to a regular day at the office.
EP&E directors call for permanent faculty
Administrators push back, argue that program should encourage existing faculty to offer more courses
As Yale’s most popular interdisciplinary major undergoes a change in leadership, current professors say they hope to make some key changes to the structure of the Ethics, Politics and Economics program to bring some much-needed stability to its faculty roster.
Demand exacerbates writing-tutor shortage
Student demand for the services of residential-college writing tutors is at an all-time high. But despite the surge, tutors’ hours will remain capped.
Stiles gets a new master in Pitti ’91
University President Richard Levin announced Thursday evening the new master and associate master of Ezra Stiles College: American Studies professors Stephen Pitti ’91 and Alicia Schmidt Camacho.
English Dept. to augment writing courses, faculty
In an effort to meet increasing student demand for upper-level writing classes and bolster the writing concentration, the English department is augmenting current offerings in both fiction and nonfiction writing classes, English Director of Undergraduate Studies Lawrence Manley said this week.
Dean’s office creates ‘assessment’ position
Pointing to an increasing national and University focus on self-assessment, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey announced last week a new position within the Dean’s Office to be charged with coordinating all the University’s surveys.
Yale seeks feedback on ’03 curricular changes
Three years after Yale College implemented new curricular requirements, administrators are probing students about their academic experiences to assess the impact of those changes.
Levesque to move into new position
Dean of Freshman Affairs George Levesque will step down from his post at the end of this academic year in order to assume a new position as assistant dean for academic affairs, the Yale College Dean’s Office announced Monday.
Tenure system triggers faculty culture shift
Junior professors point to elimination of open job search, improved mentoring
The newfound hope of tenure has a two-fold effect on his colleagues, Assistant ecology and evolutionary biology professor Thomas Near said. It removes the threat of “brain drain,” especially from Yale’s humanities departments, and puts the onus on junior faculty to prove themselves to both their peers and their department chairs.
Some humanities buck trends, grow
At meeting last semester, University academic leaders agreed to ‘monitor’ declining numbers
Data on humanities enrollment released by the University over the last 20 years tells a different story from the sharp decline seen by some of the professors: a mosaic of small ups and downs from year to year, with stabilizing enrollments after a 10-year period of steep decline.
Jones’ exit leaves one American Indian prof.
After spending over 20 years at the University as both a student and a teacher, Divinity School professor Serene Jones DIV ’85 GRD ’91 will leave Yale this fall to become the first female president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Sociology aims to reverse decline in enrollment
Facing sharply declining undergraduate course enrollments, the Sociology department is attempting to reinvigorate its program by reaching out to sophomores and stabilizing faculty attrition, department chair Karl Ulrich Mayer said this week.
Sociology Dept. to look for new home if colleges built
Undergraduates anxious to sign leases or begin room draws for next year are not the only ones at Yale with housing worries.
Brief: Five junior faculty granted tenure under new tenure, appointment system
Five current junior faculty members at Yale were awarded tenure Wednesday afternoon by the Joint Boards of Yale College and the Graduate School.
Dearth of Latino faculty mirrors national trends
Despite 2005 diversity initiative, number of Latino professors has declined in past three years
Since 2005, when the Provost’s Office announced a seven-year Diversity Initiative to add 30 faculty members from underrepresented minority groups, Yale has hired 12 black professors. During the same period of time, the total number of Hispanic professors has actually declined.
Task Force seeks to widen Asian-American courses
This academic year, students have made efforts to bolster the Asian-American Studies Task Force, to push for an increase in courses addressing Asian-American issues and to encourage an increase in the number of Asian-American faculty.
Survey of faculty points to perceived gender disparity
Despite the University’s formal commitment to recruiting a more diverse faculty, women faculty members still perceive a sharp gender divide — resulting in what they see as significant inequalities between male and female professors.
Departments aim to structure, formalize faculty mentoring
In recent survey, 58 percent of junior faculty members call mentoring experience inadequate, citing rarity of interaction with tenured profs
The survey, which was conducted during the last academic year, points to significant inequities among junior faculty members when it comes to their mentoring experiences, with women and underrepresented minorities reporting the lowest satisfaction levels.
Minority faculty members perceive marginalization
Underrepresented minority faculty members are more likely to regret their decision to come to Yale, feel unable to navigate departmental politics and feel excluded from informal faculty networks than their white colleagues, a Provost's Office survey shows.
Yale to increase, extend grad-student stipends
Increase of $5,000 now includes funding for summer research
Starting next year, humanities and social science doctoral students will receive a $25,000 stipend per year for five years, to be distributed over a 12-month period.
Graduate, professional students lobby for student dental insurance
Since early last semester, members of Yale’s graduate- and professional-school organizing bodies have been working to convince University administrators of the need for student dental insurance, which is currently not included in the Yale Health Plan. But even as they gear up this semester to circulate a petition among graduate students and intensify their lobbying efforts, administrators — who cited cost as the primary obstacle — said it seems unlikely student insurance options will expand to include dental coverage.
Interdisciplinary majors approved
Faculty pass Modern Middle East Studies, Computing and the Arts by unanimous vote
Yale College faculty members voted unanimously Thursday for the creation of two new undergraduate majors: Modern Middle East Studies and Computing and the Arts.
Faculty approve Modern Middle East Studies, Computing and the Arts majors
Yale College faculty members voted unanimously Thursday for the creation of two new undergraduate majors — Modern Middle East Studies and Computing and the Arts. Both majors received the faculty stamp of approval yesterday after lengthy campaigns by professors and administrators to design the interdisciplinary majors and drum up faculty and student support. The formalization of the two majors will not expand course selection beyond what is already available.
Profs question language reqs.
Salovey pushes back, says policy offers flexibility while requiring language study
As administrators gear up to undertake a semester-long review of the Committee on Yale College Education’s 2003 curricular overhaul, some language faculty are hoping they will take a closer look at the newly implemented language requirements. The three-semester language requirement, first instated for the class of 2009, leads students to drop intermediate language courses before taking the second-semester class, language professors told the News this week.
Writing Center considers expansion
With student demand for writing tutorial and the number of writing-intensive courses at an all-time high, staff at the Yale College Writing Center are considering a possible expansion in the Center’s size.
Deans advise professors to diversify scheduling
Changes would prevent overcrowding in popular time slots
Yale College Dean Peter Salovey and Graduate School Dean Jon Butler sent a memo earlier this month to administrators in academic departments recommending they schedule no more than 10 percent of their course offerings during any one class time slot.
Profs push for major uniting computers, art
In ‘Computing and the Arts,’ students would use technology to further study of disciplines including music, theater
Since last spring, computer science professors Julie Dorsey, Paul Hudak and Holly Rushmeier, with the help of professors in the arts, have been planning and advocating for a Computing and the Arts major.
In ’08 donations, Yale trails Harvard
Yale employees, who heavily favored Democratic over Republican candidates in quarter three, are outspent heavily by those at other Ivy League universities in donating to presidential campaigns.
S. Asian major easier said than done
Despite piquing the interest of a handful of students on campus, Yale College’s first new major in almost a decade is still sorting through some initial growing pains.
Brooks to study law, humanities with grant
Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Brooks is the third Yale professor in three years to be awarded grant money as part of the Distinguished Achievement Award, given annually to several humanities scholars by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
After injury, Bloom to return next fall
Sterling Professor of Humanities and literary and religious critic Harold Bloom, who has taught at Yale since 1955, canceled the two courses he was scheduled to teach this spring, in order to recover from a December fall and subsequent hospitalization. But Bloom told the News this week that he will return for the 2008 fall semester.
African Studies professors push for program expansion
As administrators weigh the creation of a Modern Middle East major and South Asian Studies scholars experience their first year in the program, professors in African Studies are pushing for their own set of curricular changes and expansions.
Eire joins Giuliani campaign
Religious Studies professor Carlos Eire GRD ’79 doesn’t usually dabble in politics. Odd, then, that last summer Eire decided to join former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign as an adviser on Cuban affairs. But if there is a single issue Eire is willing to get confrontational about, it is Fidel Castro’s rule in Cuba.
At Peking University, allegations of plagiarism fly
In forceful e-mail, Yale professor speaks out against frequency of unattributed work at PKU
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Stephen C. Stearns ’67 sent a passionate, 958-word e-mail to his students at PKU last month, bemoaning the rampant plagiarism he says he witnessed.
At Boren's '63 bipartisan forum, speculation about Bloomberg presidential run mounts
Centrists in both parties gather at University of Oklahoma to discuss strategies for reinvigorating political center
Plagiarism rampant at Peking University, Yale professor says
Biology professor says issue is reflective of academic honesty problem throughout China
A Yale biology professor who taught at Peking University this fall as part of a joint program between the two schools has accused the Chinese school of turning a blind eye toward plagiarism, raising questions about the academic integrity of an institution that is a central partner in Yale’s internationalization efforts.
Few women profs. available for advising
Women undergraduates seeking guidance from female role models at the University are finding the number of available mentors insufficient to meet their needs, despite the slowly increasing number of women appointed to the University faculty.
Phi Beta Kappa elects members
Approximately 70 academically high-achieving juniors and seniors were inducted into the honorary academic organization Phi Beta Kappa on Monday night.
Vote power for faculty expanded
To end ‘professional discourtesy,’ full-time lecturers, lectors now given votes at faculty meetings
Starting next year, the crowd at the now scantly attended monthly Yale College faculty meetings may grow a bit bigger. At its last meeting of the fall semester Thursday afternoon, College faculty members unanimously decided to extend voting rights at future faculty meetings to full-time lectors and lecturers on multi-year contracts, in addition to all junior and senior professors, Yale College Dean Peter Salovey said Thursday night.
Ghostface continues to thrill Torbati
My roommates call it my “Beatlemania” moment: Just before Thanksgiving break, one of about six girls in a throng of adoring fans packed into Toad’s and overcome by powerful renditions of the best from his own and the Wu-Tang Clan’s catalogs, I start uncontrollably shouting, “I love you Ghostface!! Have my babies!”
WFF aims to publicize changes to child leave
Professors looking to take advantage of their allotted leave to raise young children may currently find the process more confusing than they first anticipated — thanks to what the Women Faculty Forum is calling a “bureaucratic lag.” Although the Provost’s Office announced a change to the faculty’s child care leave policy more than three years ago, the new policy has not yet been documented in the faculty handbook, a guide to the University’s faculty policies.
Chinese prof’s e-mail sparks internal debate
If enacted, shift in curriculum would emphasize traditional characters at introductory level
Members of the East Asian Languages and Literatures department are sorting out whether an e-mail sent to lectors several weeks ago represents a misstatement or a curricular change that would mandate increased attention toward traditional Chinese characters.
Univ. to focus on traditional Chinese script
Language instructors criticize decision to increase emphasis on characters at introductory level
Some Chinese language instructors and students are unconvinced about a significant change in how the University will teach Chinese courses next semester.
Eidelson, Bhatty chosen for Rhodes
One Yale undergraduate and one Yale Law School student are among the 32 students nationwide that have been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship this year, the scholarship committee announced last week. Ben Eidelson ’08 and Isra Bhatty LAW ’10 were selected from among 764 American students attending 294 different colleges and universities to receive one of the most prestigious postgraduate fellowhips available to English-speaking students.
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