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New Gateway prez Dr. Paul Broadie.
The new chief of New Haven’s Gateway Community College has found that adding two campuses together can help more people launch machinist, railroad or ultrasound careers — even when a budget-strapped state is cutting back funding.
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Ramirez: Time to bring it home.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro and state colleges and universities system President Mark Ojakian are calling on the president to stand by his promise to use his heart in deciding the fate of “dreamers.”
by | Oct 3, 2017 8:17 am | Comments (8)
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54 Adeline, unveiled Monday night.
Menghi Li, who worked on the terrace.
A homeless family will be able to look out onto Adeline Street while cooking dinner and also find privacy in a rock garden, thanks to the design of the latest house Yale architecture students built in New Haven.
by | Sep 20, 2017 5:25 pm | Comments (16)
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Looney: Budget puts back the “Elites Only” sign back on higher education.
At a time when other states are finding ways to make access to higher education more affordable or even free, the Connecticut General Assembly’s latest budget would axe a scholarship program that helps thousands. That is unacceptable to New Haven’s state lawmakers.
by | Sep 19, 2017 8:01 am | Comments (4)
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The Hall of Graduate Studies.
The conversion of Yale University’s Hall of Graduate Studies dorms into academic space can move forward now that alders have given the go-ahead for an overall parking plan for the Central/Science Campus.
by | Sep 18, 2017 4:11 pm | Comments (1)
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President Kaplan signs the MOU Monday.
New Haven Sister Cities just got a whole school full of new ambassadors for the cause of peace thanks to a newly minted partnership with the University of New Haven.
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Ojakian at Monday’s press conference.
A new program that allows students at 16 state universities and community colleges to take unlimited train and bus rides for a small fee paid to their university could be a boon for transit riders throughout Connecticut.
by | Aug 31, 2017 1:24 pm | Comments (0)
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Casanova and Melton at WNHH FM.
Patricia Melton recognized Jorgieliz Casanova’s promise. She also recognized a lift she’d need to fulfill it.
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by | Aug 25, 2017 12:04 pm | Comments (17)
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Central-city streets were clogged Friday morning as the 1,550 newest downtown denizens, members of the Yale Class of 2021 (the largest ever), moved into undergraduate dorms — and were greeted by a stream of messages about how to settle in.
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by | Aug 8, 2017 3:32 pm | Comments (32)
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Greenberg:More info needed.
The Board of Alders Monday enabled one major project on Yale University’s development to-do list to move ahead and delayed another.
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Polite receives her scholarship from Mayor Harp.
Scholarships from The Firebirds, the New Haven chapter of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters, will help six New Haven high school students pursue a diverse set of interests at colleges across the nation.
by | Jul 12, 2017 12:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Christopher Wray prepares to testify at his confirmation hearing Wednesday.
Back in 1991, in his final year at Yale Law School, Christopher Wray’s peers nominated him to stabilize the law review, where ambitious experiments under the previous class had gotten in the way of carrying out basic responsibilities.
Now Wray’s even-keeled manner is being sought once again: this time at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where the agency’s been spinning since President Donald J. Trump fired Director James Comey in May.
by | Jun 22, 2017 7:51 am | Comments (3)
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Kendrick at Wednesday night’s gala.
A trailblazer who developed “a monument to education” downtown isn’t saying goodbye. She’s saying godspeed.
by | Jun 21, 2017 2:34 pm | Comments (3)
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Mayor Harp.
Mayor Toni Harp vowed to combat domestic violence by helping not just the battered, but the batterers as well.
Continue reading ‘Harp Domestic Violence Challenge: Help The Batterers, Too’
by | Jun 20, 2017 2:30 pm | Comments (8)
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Jadah Moore receives her scholarship at the graduation.
Jadah Moore encountered an unexpected pregnancy and the need to get a job before she could finish high school — and she still made it on time joining 13 fellow students Tuesday in completing her studies at New Light High School.
by | Jun 19, 2017 4:38 pm | Comments (2)
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Diane Orson, chief of WNPR’s new downtown New Haven news bureau.
You may soon hear a familiar voice with a new ID tag: “This is Faith Middleton of ‘Food Schmooze’ broadcasting from Gateway Community College in New Haven.”
by | Jun 15, 2017 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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The winners, with fellow counselors.
Amistad Academy student and LEAP counselor Kevin Torres thought his first job would be in the fast food industry. Instead, he found himself working with kids — and getting financial help with college in the process.
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by | Jun 7, 2017 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
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Dorsey Kendrick Monday with Sykes, Aaron Jordan, Ijan Whitaker, Meya McClain, Z’Naya Morris, Zelema Harris and Tanisha McClain.
Young women inspired by the woman who remade Gateway Community College caught up with her before she bids New Haven farewell — and heard about how they too “can be anything [they] want to be.”
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by | Jun 2, 2017 2:20 pm | Comments (6)
An officer at the Yale Police Department remains on active duty after a recent arrest for drunk driving in New York City.
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Yale-hired crew taking down the encampment at sunrise.
Now that students have left town, and right before alumni arrive on campus for reunions, Yale Thursday morning dismantled a protest shed that had served as a visible symbol of criticism of the university’s labor policy.
by | May 22, 2017 3:13 pm | Comments (28)
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Protesters end their fast at rally.
While Yale students were handed degrees Monday, graduate student teachers two blocks away were handed cups of ginger and butternut soup to end, at least for now, a nationally watched protest fast.
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Union backers wore orange, Yale grads black in Monday’s processions.
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by | May 22, 2017 10:20 am | Comments (7)
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(Opinion) On Monday morning, I marched in the streets of New Haven with thousands of members of my union and our allies, calling for Yale to begin contract negotiations. Then I put my cap and gown on over my orange union t‑shirt, and went to receive my PhD.
by | May 17, 2017 12:35 pm | Comments (1)
Bergeron (at right) with Louis, who said her mom, a graduate of the same program three years ago, was her inspiration.
Lucia Bergeron helped administer life-saving injections to her mom who was fighting ovarian cancer. She was only 13 years old.
Chris Adams had an emotional experience visiting his grandfather in hospice care.
And in 2008, 36-year-old Nezha Elomari landed in Hamden after having left her native Morocco, where she’d had a business career. She worked for six years at rigorous academic classes and clinical training, struggling with English as a second language and having and raising two kids, all because she loves being a nurse.
by | May 17, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (13)
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Union supporters Tuesday night with new metal sign on Beinecke.
Members of UNITE HERE Local 33 and their supporters continued to show their mettle in the fight to have their new graduate student teachers union recognized by Yale University, as their encampment got some actual metal just in time for graduation.
by | May 12, 2017 4:48 pm | Comments (10)
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Former federal prosecutor Chris Mattei, who’s exploring a run for the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nomination, submitted the following opinion piece:
While news headlines focus on the pitched struggle to resolve our fiscal crisis in Hartford, there is another important clash over the character of Connecticut taking place along the shoreline, at Yale University in New Haven.