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Yale Corporation holds meeting in Britain
The Yale Corporation is trading Yale's 1930s-era gothic architecture for the real thing this weekend, as it holds its first meeting of the academic year at the University of Cambridge -- 500 years Yale's senior -- in the United Kingdom. The...
Yale sees surge in giving
Fund-raising totals, boosted by capital campaign, may surpass earlier record levels
Buoyed by rising alumni support as Yale enters a $1 billion capital campaign, the University brought in $290 million in total cash gifts in the last year. Officials said they expect fund-raising totals to reach more than $350 million this year...
Levin keeps his distance in leading Yale
Earlier this month, Yale President Richard Levin sat down in a closed-door meeting with Yale College Dean Peter Salovey and a handful of professors and administrators who had been charged with finding a new dean of undergraduate admissions for the...
Harvard lifts JAG ban to keep federal funding
Reversing a decision it made last year, Harvard Law School will allow military recruiters on its campus after the Pentagon threatened to cut off the university's substantial federal funding under a law that denies grants to educational institutions...
DoD withholds funds from three law schools
The Pentagon has targeted three small law schools it says are violating a law requiring campus access for military recruiters and has classified them as ineligible for federal funding, even as it has declined to pursue the high-profile law schools...
Campaign nets gift donations
Gifts will help fund international programs, the arts, new science building and other projects
Students hoping to study science, travel abroad on Yale's tab, or move into a renovated Silliman College are getting a little help from hefty alumni donations, including three of the most substantial gifts in the University's history. Yale...
Car damages Woolsey
Mercedez-Benz crashes into front steps, railing of building
Woolsey Hall sustained minor damage in a single-car accident Sunday night after a male driver apparently lost control of a Mercedes-Benz while driving down Prospect Street, a University Police officer at the accident scene said. The driver of the...
Yale looks to form ties with Chinese medical schools
Chinese President Hu Jintao may not have come to Yale Thursday, but University officials plan to make their own high-profile appearance in China later this month. Yale President Richard Levin and other officials will meet with leaders of universities...
Levin will travel to Japan
After recent trips to India, Mexico, South Korea and India to further the University's international agenda, Yale President Richard Levin has his sights set on the Land of the Rising Sun. Levin, along with a delegation of Yale administrators and...
Hu delays visit to U.S.
Groups still protest China's rights record
Chinese President Hu Jintao will not make his scheduled Thursday visit to Yale after postponing a trip to the United States this week. Yale still expects Hu to speak at the University at some point in the future, although the timing will likely depend...