Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
President Levin’s recent statement on the expansion of Yale College (“Levin backs expansion” 2/18), which calls for “an increase in non-ladder teaching faculty” in “programs such as writing and foreign languages,” finally shed light on a process that had been a mystery to me for some months. That mystery took shape when I thumbed through the pages of the...
While answering my e-mail Friday evening, I paused to read President Levin’s statement in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. This seemingly innocuous note reminded me yet again of how numerous social actors in the post-civil rights era have seized on the legacy of King in pursuit of their own objectives, regardless of how they conflict with King’s actual...
I’ve arrived at the end of the sixth year, and I know the Dean’s Office hopes it is my last. In the Graduate School of the future, “2-4” always equals six. Part of making that happen is the Dissertation Progress Report, requests for which were e-mailed to Ph.D. candidates a few days ago. Like Nietzsche’s dragon with scales that read “thou shalt” and “thou...
College Street became a classroom Tuesday afternoon as Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization organized to protest the University’s increasing reliance on part-time instructors. 250 graduate students, staff and faculty members staged a teach-out on College Street yesterday to protest a trend toward casualization — the increased employment of teachers...
The standard stipend for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences will increase 5.26 percent to $20,000 in the next academic year, Graduate School Dean Jon Butler announced Tuesday. The $1,000 increase in the nine-month stipend will be accompanied by a $200 raise in summer support funding and a five percent minimum increase in the wages of all teaching...
During the Graduate Students and Employees Organization’s 1996 strike, teaching assistants withheld undergraduates’ grades for two weeks as part of a repeated attempt to gain official recognition as a union by the University administration. In response, Thomas Appelquist, the Graduate School dean at the time, convened a committee of faculty and students charged with...
The Graduate Employees and Students Organization voted to approve two resolutions in a membership meeting last night — one demanding formal recognition as a union representing a majority of non-science graduate students and the other calling for a thorough review of Yale’s use of graduate student labor for teaching and research. After months of relative quiet on the...
One year after Yale announced it was divesting from seven oil and gas companies linked to Sudan, a recently discovered connection between the University and two of the blacklisted stocks is shedding light on the sometimes conflicting motivations underlying divestment. The investment in question is known as a “put option” and is essentially a bet that an index fund...
College system at Yale works much better for diversity than elsewhere To the Editor: It’s interesting to read all of the opinions in the “self-segregation” dialogue that students at Yale are having right now. I think it’s important to remember that to an extent, everyone tends to gravitate toward people they identify with. While the black students may...
Improving the academic job market for young scholars is the focus of the new agenda passed by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization on Wednesday night, the organization’s first new platform since 2003. The new platform follows a GESO survey of 400 graduate students conducted earlier this fall on which students identified “casualization” as their most...
