It has happened year after year, like clockwork, for the past eight years. And on Wednesday, it happened again — the Graduate Employees and Students Organization urged the University to accept the group as a union.
A faculty member in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department has been accused of sexual harassment, according to a Yale Police Department report filed April 8.
A Korean court may have already ruled in the matter, but it now appears that the epic saga commonly known as “Shingate” is anything but over.
Yale placed first in three sets of rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released Friday.
While most Yale undergraduates will be celebrating the end of student loans next year, many of their graduate-student counterparts will still be taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans — a process that tightening credit markets have made even more stressful.
The prospect of building two new residential colleges may have dominated this weekend’s meeting of the Yale Corporation, but that’s not to say its members do not have anything else on their minds.
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...
The Korean university to which Yale accidentally verified the authenticity of a fabricated doctorate will sue Yale, the school’s president said last week, according to a report published in The Korea Times. University President Richard Levin recently sent a letter of apology to Dongguk University, where Shin Jeong-ah, a former art history professor at the school, landed...
After admitting last month that the Yale had mistakenly verified to an employer the authenticity of a doctorate degree fabricated by a Korean art history professor, University officials said they have changed their procedure for confirming graduate degrees — and will not be hoodwinked again.
Updated Friday 10:40 p.m. University officials will no longer confirm or deny whether a person holds a degree from Yale based on any external documents they are presented, Associate Director of Public Affairs Gila Reinstein told the News today. Instead, she said, the administrators will rely solely on their own records to verify that a supposed alumnus did indeed graduate...
More than 100 students, faculty members and other Yale affiliates packed into Sudler Hall on Tuesday night for “The History of Hate,” the first of at least four panels planned by administrators to analyze hate from various academic perspectives.
A November report by the National Science Foundation indicates that the number of doctoral degrees granted by American universities in the 2005-2006 academic year increased 5.1 percent from the year before. Yale faculty members interviewed said the University has increased the number of doctorate degrees it awards overall, but at a rate slower than the national figure,...
