by | May 4, 2018 5:27 pm | Comments (2)
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New Haven’s Albertus Magnus College, which has recently stepped up its commitment to closer town-gown relations, inaugurated its 14th president on Friday afternoon with calls for study, prayer, service, and community.
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Bertolino, right, chats with Fair Havener, and police commissioner, Kevin Diaz after the meeting.
Southern Connecticut State University President Joe Bertolino brought his charm and outreach tour to the Fair Haven Community Management Team (FHCMT) Thursday night.
It cost him $200.
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by | May 3, 2018 10:58 am | Comments (14)
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Alexander with grandchildren Hannah, 8, Natalie, 11, and Jeremy, 4, at the recent corner naming for his late wife Christine.
An era in town-gown relations is ending with the retirement of Bruce Alexander, Yale’s top official dedicated to relations with New Haven.
by | May 2, 2018 7:13 am | Comments (4)
Yale University has taken back the honorary degree it gave actor Bill Cosby following his conviction for rape.
by | Apr 24, 2018 3:45 pm | Comments (13)
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Yale welcomed prospective students and their parents Tuesday with a speech from the president — and flyers from picketing union members about a scary crime in the dorms.
by | Apr 16, 2018 12:40 pm | Comments (0)
Determined to advance initiatives that realize improved student performance, New Haven’s Gateway Community College has won admission to a network of “Achieving the Dream” schools.
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by | Apr 10, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (14)
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Following a clash on College Street in front of visiting prospective Yale parents, campus cops are calling on the university to grant them the same First Amendment rights granted to students.
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by | Apr 4, 2018 3:06 pm | Comments (11)
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Mayor Harp, Frankie the Falcon, Albertus President Camille at Wednesday’s announcement.
Albertus Magnus is creating a varsity men’s hockey team — and ponying up $300,000 to help the city turn Ralph Walker Skating Rink into home ice.
by | Apr 3, 2018 2:15 pm | Comments (4)
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An in-plain-sight revelation in the new book Yale’s Hidden Treasures.
Michael Stern noticed a bulldog dressed as a judge, a surveyor riding a mule, and a court jester blinding justice hiding in plain sight in New Haven.
by | Mar 20, 2018 4:42 pm | Comments (1)
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New Haven Promise Scholar and Albertus Magnus College student Christine Puglisi.
Christine Puglisi transferred from the University of Connecticut (UConn) to Albertus Magnus College because she wanted smaller class sizes and a more intimate learning environment.
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by | Mar 14, 2018 4:35 pm | Comments (3)
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A Local 33 street-blocking protest.
Four major national unions announced a new partnership on Wednesday that will seek to put pressure on private universities like Yale to negotiate with graduate student teachers who have already voted to unionize.
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by | Mar 14, 2018 3:47 pm | Comments (2)
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Clergy lead a prayer circle on the first floor of the Legislative Office Building Wednesday.
Hartford—“Dreamers” —children born to adults living in the U.S. without legal permission — gathered with clergy at the state Capitol Wednesday to call on the legislature to pass a bill that would open a pool of student-generated financial aid to the undocumented students that help pay for it.
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by | Feb 15, 2018 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Joe Bertolino with the East Shore management team.
Southern Connecticut State University’s president popped in to the Lighthouse Road fire station the other night — to check in with his neighbors.
by | Feb 14, 2018 1:47 pm | Comments (1)
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Political pundit Khalilah Brown-Dean Tuesday with WNPR’s Lori Mack and John Dankosky inside the new studio.
New Haven’s downtown gateway to higher ed has become a gateway to the statewide radio airwaves, as well.
by | Feb 13, 2018 9:07 am | Comments (17)
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Quite a bit longer: Local 33 supporters blocking downtown streets before arrest last May.
Never mind.
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by | Jan 25, 2018 9:16 am | Comments (6)
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Newsome at Battell Wednesday: Human rights is question of our time.
When activist Bree Newsome climbed into the history books by scaling a flagpole on the South Carolina statehouse grounds and removing the Confederate flag, many people assumed that one very fed up black woman had taken spontaneous action.
by | Jan 24, 2018 4:03 pm | Comments (13)
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Stephen Brown shows neighbors a map and photographs of 320 Canner St., a two-story, single-family home that Yale is interested in purchasing and converting to academic use.
The Yale Divinity School is interested in purchasing a single-family home near its Prospect Hill campus and converting it into an academic building, thereby removing over $18,500 from the city’s annual property tax rolls.
by | Jan 24, 2018 4:02 pm | Comments (1)
As of Wednesday afternoon, Albertus Magnus College no longer officially honors Gordon Edelstein, who as of Tuesday evening no longer serves as artistic director of Long Wharf Theatre.
by | Dec 7, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (3)
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Bertolino at City Hall Wednesday.
Ten New Haven Promise “scholars” — public school students receiving scholarships to cover their college tuition — heading off to Southern Connecticut State University next fall could have their housing expenses for their first year at school covered in addition to their tuition.
by | Dec 1, 2017 1:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Seventh-grader Saad Ourodjeri explores smell and memory.
A tube from a vacuum cleaner was the neuron or nerve cell. Green pipe cleaners were the dendrites. And a set of dominoes stood in for how the “action potential” resets the cell so that a new memory can be created.
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by | Oct 31, 2017 7:53 am | Comments (3)
Students embark on get-to-know Downtown tour.
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President Joe presents the newlyweds with a gift.
Some couples have doves at their wedding. Zeliha and Mesut Toprak unexpectedly had owls at theirs at City Hall.
by | Oct 26, 2017 8:07 am | Comments (2)
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Proto outside polls with campaign team: Ken Lomme, Laura Kennington, Michael Dowd, Tyisha Walker, Dave White, Barbara Vereen, Rich Esposito.
Challenger Shirley Lawrence.
New Haven’s top labor leader Wednesday night vowed to reach out more to his union’s newer members after surviving his first electoral challenge in over two decades.
by | Oct 19, 2017 4:45 pm | Comments (10)
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Union members and allies cheer during Thursday’s rally.
UNITE HERE members rallied on Yale University’s Cross campus Thursday as part of a national day of action to support union jobs particularly in the service industry.
by | Oct 15, 2017 3:23 pm | Comments (3)
Yale was under federal investigation from April to September of this year after an alumnus filed a complaint with the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights alleging that the university discriminated against him in its Title IX procedures because he was a man.
by | Oct 11, 2017 10:47 am | Comments (3)
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Inductee State Rep. Toni Walker, a leading community college advocate at the Capitol.
Gateway Community College submitted the following release.
More that 200 from the Greater New Haven community gathered in the Curran Community Center at Gateway Community College on Oct. 5 to celebrate six new inductees at the Gateway Community College Foundation’s 20th Hall of Fame Induction and Celebration.