One week after Quinnipiac University administrators threatened to ban the school chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists from campus for supporting the independent online student newspaper, the Quad News, administrators have finally broken their silence. In a memo posted Friday on...
Yale’s sustainability initiatives received national recognition once again this week when KIWI Magazine named the University one of the top 75 sustainable schools in the country. The accolade came in the family-lifestyle magazine’s “Green College Report,” which was launched online Wednesday. The issue of KIWI announcing the report hit newsstands Tuesday. Yale...
HAMDEN – In the latest twist in the ongoing battle between Quinnipiac University administrators and student journalists, university officials have restricted the editorial content of an independent online student newspaper by denying reporters access to all varsity coaches, staff and athletes, the News learned Wednesday. In an e-mail provided to the News by a Quad...
HAMDEN — In a move that has some First Amendment experts scratching their heads, Quinnipiac University administrators have threatened to ban the school’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists from campus for its support of an independent online student newspaper, the News has learned. In a letter sent Monday to SPJ President Jaclyn Hirsch — who is also...
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress on Monday ratcheted up pressure on American universities to make college more affordable, suggesting in the strongest terms yet that wealthy schools like Yale may be mandated by the federal government to spend a larger fraction of their endowments each year. At a meeting with leaders across American higher education, Senator Chuck...
WASHINGTON — In the oak-paneled room on Monday, 25 of the best and brightest minds from all over the country assembled around a large square table and took turns giving their two cents on the topic of the day. They jostled for attention, hands shooting up in the air, when they wanted to make a point. They squirmed and fidgeted when their peers droned on. It amounted to...
WASHINGTON — Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman appeared to suggest Monday that her school’s endowment posted a small but positive return in fiscal year 2008, giving more hope that Yale may also have been able to avoid losing money despite the rough economic climate. Speaking at a roundtable discussion here on the subject of endowment spending, Tilghman...
WASHINGTON — The question of whether Yale and its wealthy peers are spending enough of their endowment riches will be debated today as the Senate Finance Committee convenes here to hold a round table on the topic. The discussion comes as the latest round in the sparring match between Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee’s ranking member, and America’s...
HAMDEN — Nearly two years after student editors at the Quinnipiac Chronicle began a battle with the university’s administration to publish breaking news online, the paper finally has the right to do just that. But they gave up something in return: any chance at independence. And after tensions between the editors and administrators came to a head, a mass exodus of...
As in the past five years, Yale was ranked third in the U.S. News & World Report national college rankings that came out last week. But perhaps more significantly, as in the past two years, Yale did not return the magazine’s peer review survey that asks for opinions of other colleges. What might seem like an administrative oversight is actually a major statement in the...
Provost Andrew Hamilton has been confirmed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, officially anointing him as the next leader of the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Members of Oxford’s Congregation, the university’s parliament, had until noon Monday to object to Hamilton’s nomination, which was announced June 3. None did so...
The Department of Education is broadening its investigation into a complaint filed by an applicant to Princeton University who was denied admission, Princeton officials announced this week. Princeton will provide information to the department's Office for Civil Rights on the admissions procedures used to admit the class of 2010, the university said in a statement...
