Pamela Shen
Pamela Shen
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Missions of Teacher Prep, TFA contrast
Many undergraduate students show an interest in pursuing urban teaching for two years with Teach For America, but fewer students are committed to Yale’s Teacher Preparation and Education Studies program, which has a curriculum that allows for official teacher certification and only enrolls a total of 20 to 30 undergraduates.
21st century poses challenge for archivists
Today’s Yalies leave their records on Facebook, in e-mails instead of on paper
Someday, a Yale senior might write her senior essay about your Facebook profile.
Smaller, quieter Yale exists in Virginia
No traffic lights, no trash collection, no high-speed Internet. Endless stretches of soybean and peanut fields line the horizon, only occasionally interrupted by modest Georgian-style homes. Yale, Va. — population 591 — is a long way from Yale University.
Librarians woo foreign booksellers
While Yale students may think librarians spend their days cooped up in Sterling Memorial Library cataloging dusty books, curators like Lorkovic travel around the world — from Timbuktu to Yekaterinburg — on acquisitions trips. In today’s technological world, curators said, they can order a majority of their books through online vendors. Thus, a major purpose of the trips is for curators to seek out new vendors and sources such as nongovernmental organizations or governments, and to cultivat
Program offers rare languages
Tok Pisin, Kinyarwanda, Oromo. To offer Yale students instruction in these and other esoteric languages, Directed Independent Language Study Director Maria Kosinski must first find someone in the New Haven area who speakes the language himself. Sometimes, this task is like throwing a pebble in the sea — she never knows where her message ends up.
Party suites restrained
Alcohol laws curtail students’ ability to serve booze in dorms
For the residents of Bookworld, Calhoun College’s “party suite,” the notification that the days of raging parties were over came from Calhoun Master Jonathan Holloway on the first weekend of the year. Changes in Yale’s new stance toward alcohol consumption have changed the meaning of living in a party suite, students said.
Freshman counselors privy to academic info
Before freshmen arrive on campus, their counselors must guess as to what the they will be like, knowing just their name, hometown, facebook profile — and their roster of high school standardized test scores.
Cultural houses have own diversity
Some students say experiences like those of Monteros — who is CASA’s communications chair — prove that students don’t have to be members of a specific ethnicity in order to join a cultural group, they simply have to have an interest in the given culture. But others said joining the cultural group of an ethnicity they weren’t born into can at times be awkward and uncomfortable.
YSFP holds workshops
A recent sauerkraut-making workshop was part of the Yale Sustainable Food Project’s new educational outreach program, which focuses on a weekly speaker and seminar series. YSFP directors said this semester’s expansion of their educational initiatives is aimed at informing students about the consequences of their eating decisions.
Elm City attracts yuppies
To the average Yale student, New Haven may be just another small college town. But to some Connecticut residents, New Haven’s downtown has established itself as a “hip spot” that increasingly draws the state’s young people with fine dining and unique boutiques.