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Hundreds of Yale grad students and union members marched to the university provost’s office to deliver a 200-foot-long petition demanding the right to negotiate on mental health benefits, racial and gender equity and funding security.
by | Feb 24, 2015 1:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Trip organizer and LEAP Youth Development Director Elvert Eden with Career High junior Deja Scott, Hillhouse High School senior Forel Kourouma, and Wilbur Cross sophomore Nicholas Mayne.
Forty-five New Haven high-school students on a winter vacation-week tour of college campuses — organized by their employer, the academics and athletics agency LEAP — spent their final day at Old Dominion and Hampton universities. Two students wrote in about what they learned.
by | Feb 23, 2015 1:13 pm | Comments (0)
Attention University of Richmond: Expect to hear an up-and-coming student from New Haven knocking on your door.
by | Feb 20, 2015 9:36 am | Comments (1)
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Zanaya Yancey-Gordon, Lauren Daren and Ijan Whitaker at GW.
While blocks away politicians debated laws, dozens of New Haven high-school students debated where they should attend college.
by | Feb 18, 2015 5:39 pm | Comments (5)
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Jade Pearson found a way to juggle two part-time service jobs with college classes, and come out with a degree.
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A campus club director had advice for the traveling students: “You’re the author. You’re the finisher. You’re the artist. You color it. You shape it.”
Continue reading ‘LEAP College Tour Hits Widener, Coppin State’
by | Feb 9, 2015 9:30 am | Comments (2)
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The Southern Connecticut State University Fighting Owl T‑shirts hung big on the shoulders of (in the front row) little Samia Virga, Alberto Cosme, and Melanie Peralta.
That was precisely the point: To grow into them.
by | Jan 27, 2015 4:40 pm | Comments (55)
The Yale cop who pulled a gun on an African-American undergraduate and forced him to the ground — because he allegedly matched the description of a burglar who was later caught — is African-American himself.
by | Jan 23, 2015 2:12 pm | Comments (3)
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Attorney Dow: “My client will be cleared.”
Yale and city cops collected evidence in a dorm this week as part of an investigation into an alleged sexual assault.
A Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) student told cops a Yale undergraduate sexually assaulted her in a room at the Timothy Dwight residential college on Temple Street.
Continue reading ‘SCSU Student Accuses Yale Student Of Rape’
by | Jan 21, 2015 6:38 pm | Comments (12)
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The new six-story building Yale plans to erect on a parking lot will contain 51,777 square feet of floor space, rise 73 feet at its highest point, and present a brick-and-glass facade to Elm Street, according to a filing with the zoning board.
Continue reading ‘Yale Seeks Zoning Help For New Housing, Stores’
by | Nov 25, 2014 6:13 pm | Comments (6)
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City Hall got an early holiday present in the form of a larger-than-expected fee bounty for the construction of Yale’s new residential colleges.
by | Nov 4, 2014 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Joshua Mamis of the United Way of Greater New Haven sent this report on the most recent Parent University session at Gateway Community College.
Parents and grandparents streamed into Gateway Community College early on Saturday morning. They came to learn and network with other parents. They came to share information. But mostly the roughly 200 participants braved a blustery rain to find out what they could do to help their children succeed.
by | Nov 4, 2014 7:37 am | Comments (5)
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Robinson (left) talks career plans with State Rep. Toni Walker.
Thanks to the bus, Lauren Robinson can commute between Church Street and Whalley Avenue in 20 minutes — but the fare adds up over the school year.
by | Oct 21, 2014 9:24 pm | Comments (29)
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From the governor on down, top Connecticut Democrats joined well over 1,000 New Haveners in taking over a block of College Street Tuesday night to jump-start a revival of the quest to unionize Yale’s graduate-student teachers.
by | Aug 13, 2014 5:12 pm | Comments (31)
Two New Haven-born entrepreneurs passed the 100,000-view mark Wednesday — and sparked a national discussion on hip-hop’s portrayal of females — with a break-out video entitled “Walking White Women Through Yale.”
by | Jul 29, 2014 8:06 am | Comments (9)
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Three days after the state shut down a painting contractor working at Yale, two union carpenters showed up at the site with a huge sign and a demand.
by | Jun 30, 2014 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Nearly a year after heading off to Fairfield University as first-generation college students, Solanlly Canas and Chastity Berrios met up back on New Haven Green. They returned home not as dropouts, but as rising sophomores who defied the odds.
by | Jun 24, 2014 8:26 am | Comments (2)
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First-generation high school graduate Melesio Rodriguez turned his tassel Monday night as he set off for a new challenge at Southern Connecticut State University — avoiding crippling debt in the process.
Continue reading ‘The Road From Graduation To College: Paved With Financial Choices’
by | Jun 13, 2014 12:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Southern Connecticut State University has taken possession of Gateway Community College’s abandoned Long Wharf property — without a clear plan of what to do with it.
Continue reading ‘SCSU Takes Over Gateway’s Long Wharf Campus’
by | Jun 11, 2014 1:04 pm | Comments (25)
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New restaurants may be coming to these vacant storefronts.
The UPS store near the corner of Dixwell and Goffe is packing up and shipping out.
by | Jun 9, 2014 8:12 am | Comments (4)
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Until this year, high school senior Rachel Knight had no idea what she wanted to do after graduation.
Continue reading ‘College Scholarship Fund Gives $230K To 151 Seniors’
by | Jun 6, 2014 11:35 am | Comments (3)
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James Kok arrived in New Haven as a refugee from South Sudan, without knowing a word of English or ever having attended school. After a long road with many obstacles, he walked on stage with a cap and gown.
by | May 23, 2014 2:45 pm | Comments (3)
After she lost her job to a corporate relocation, Debra Bagni got a second chance, and took it.
by | May 9, 2014 4:21 pm | Comments (3)
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NEW YORK — Six years after leaving public housing in Westville Manor, Toddchelle Young prepared to wrap up a master’s degree at Columbia — by leading a lesson on a groundbreaking immigration policy hatched in her hometown.
by | May 1, 2014 8:35 am | Comments (23)
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Graduate-student employees marched through the rain Wednesday to take up some unfinished business with Yale’s new president.
Continue reading ‘Grad Students March For Union Recognition’