Free Skool’s In Session
by | Feb 28, 2013 9:26 am | Comments (0)
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Last session’s class on police brutality.
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Yale Scraps Plans For
Military Research Center
by | Feb 22, 2013 5:55 pm | Comments (7)
As critics line up to denounce a planned new military special-ops research center relying on New Haven immigrants as test subjects, the idea of the center itself became shrouded in mystery worthy of … well, special ops.
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Military Research Center’
Yale Puts Controversial Military Project On Hold
by | Feb 21, 2013 5:34 pm | Comments (13)
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Lugo: “We’re not lab rats.”
(Updated 7:28 p.m.) After an outcry from campus groups and New Haven immigration activists, Yale announced Thursday night that it will put on temporary hold plans to launch a Department of Defense-backed research center that would rely on local immigrants as military test subjects.
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“The Whole Damn Place Is Going Down”
by | Feb 20, 2013 1:03 pm | Comments (18)
A 19-year-old woman threatened to use homemade napalm bombs and a shotgun to carry out a Newtown-style “suicidal” mass attack on Gateway Community College, according to a federal complaint.
What They Learned
At Command College
by | Feb 18, 2013 9:04 am | Comments (4)
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“In a crisis you’re in charge. You make the decision. [And] Listen to your subordinates. Most of your good ideas are from patrol officers.”
Top Cops Going Back To School
by | Dec 19, 2012 9:05 am | Comments (2)
DeCarlo at Monday’s announcement.
To learn how to deliver an “inoculation” against the disease of crime, lieutenants and other police supervisors from across the country will soon start coming to a New Haven “Command College” for “medical rounds.”
Pancake Pitch Prevails
by | Dec 13, 2012 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
Check out what food cart entrepreneur Chris Warner will say if he finds himself in an elevator with a wealthy financier.
Who’s In The Picture
by | Nov 18, 2012 2:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Hundreds turned out to Gateway Community College Saturday evening not to attend class, but to honor people who are helping to make Gateway a class act.
Yale Picks New President, Stays The Course
by | Nov 8, 2012 5:56 pm | Comments (6)
The newly named CEO of New Haven’s largest corporation promised Thursday to continue the policies of his predecessor — from an improved relationship with New Haven and with labor unions to a controversial new relationship with the authoritarian government of Singapore.
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He’ll Miss Asking
by | Sep 3, 2012 1:01 pm | Comments (0)
When Rick Levin leaves his post next year as Yale’s president, he’ll also leave behind one of the more grueling requirements of modern-day top higher-ed posts: continually asking rich people for big checks.
A College, Not A Circus, Opens Downtown
by | Aug 29, 2012 11:12 am | Comments (17)
New Haven Wednesday officially completed a long-awaited downtown dream — building not a coliseum, but a community college campus. A sea change in economic development philosophy led to the moment.
FDIC Orders Higher One
To Pay $11M In Fee Dispute
by | Aug 9, 2012 2:06 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven’s hottest young tech company must pay $11 million in restitution to 60,000 students for “alleged unfair and deceptive practices,” according to a settlement reached with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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To Pay $11M In Fee Dispute’
Sneak Preview Reveals
A Bright New Gateway
by | Jun 30, 2012 10:17 pm | Comments (1)
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GCC’s Allied Health Dept. Chair Marcia Doran said the CT Scan will train students in nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, and radiography.
The CT Scan machine was not quite unpacked yet or set up for teaching but it had already been lifted by sections into one of six bright science labs at Gateway Community College’s nearly finished new downtown campus.
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A Bright New Gateway’
Yale Workers OK New Contract—6 Months Early
by | Jun 27, 2012 7:10 pm | Comments (73)
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Local 34 workers stream out of Battell after surprise vote.
The Kings of Harmony celebrate at a pizza party on the Green.
Labor peace struck New Haven Wednesday evening as office and blue-collar workers at the city’s largest employer unanimously ratified new four-year contracts.
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24 Graduate From
Coop -- & Gateway
by | Jun 5, 2012 11:38 am | Comments (2)
“Struggle,” declared Treneé McGee, “means to feel unsure, to feel like you are stuck.”
For her and her 24 classmates from a first-ever group of graduates from an experimental program with a community college and a city public high school, the fight has proved worth it.
“The storm is over now,” she went on. “I am success, and success is who I am.”
Gateway Graduates
Largest Class Ever
by | May 25, 2012 8:09 am | Comments (2)
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Mary Perez’s mother Maria Serrano (left) also received an associate’s degree, in medical administration.
Beginning at age 10 Mary Perez had a front row-seat to see how nurses and doctors treated her dad’s transverse myelitis, a spinal condition that can cause paralysis. The experience made her want to care for others. A decade later she earned her degree to do just that, as a newly minted nurse.
Gatewayers Get
A Salsa Send-Off
by | May 3, 2012 10:37 am | Comments (1)
Emilie Swenson was in class a few doors down when she heard the salsa music coming from the Community Room at Gateway Community College on Long Wharf. “I wanted to check out where the music was coming from. I’ve never did any salsa dancing before, but this has been fun!” Swenson was drawn onto the dance floor amongst other students, faculty, and salsa dancers as they moved to the Latin beat of the 14-piece New Haven-based band, Mikata.
2,000 Rally For Pipeline—& Put Eli On Notice
by | Apr 26, 2012 8:06 am | Comments (4)
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As Yale’s union contract comes up for renewal, Ronice Awudu braved the rain with her 11-month-old son to join hundreds of coworkers calling for good jobs and benefits.
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Nerds Launch Nerfs
by | Feb 26, 2012 11:58 am | Comments (2)
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Jean Zheng pulled on the wood, fighting the heavy-duty tension springs to bring a homemade catapult back far enough to load it.
Struggling — and giggling — she finally had to ask for help. Apparently, the fourth-year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering has brains, but not much brawn.
High-Tech Home Run Leaves Home Field
by | Jan 3, 2012 1:06 pm | Comments (17)
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Daniel Abadi’s new Science Park company snagged $9.5 million to start hiring people fast — in Cambridge.
Gateway Feeds 600
by | Dec 12, 2011 12:22 pm | Comments (2)
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The largest holiday-season meal for the needy took place again at Gateway Community College.
Teens Aim For College
by | Nov 30, 2011 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
While only about half of their moms graduated college, a group of New Haven high-schoolers have their sights set on a post-secondary diploma.
Albertus, Gateway Sign Pact
by | Nov 29, 2011 3:13 pm | Comments (4)
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Gateway President Dorsey Kendrick and Albertus Magnus President Julia McNamara sign the pact.
Students can now transfer from Gateway Community College to Albertus Magnus College to pursue a bachelor’s degree without losing any credits in the shuffle, according to a pact signed Tuesday.
U-Haul Driver
Passed Sobriety Test
by | Nov 19, 2011 7:11 pm | Comments (18)
Tragedy marred the annual Saturday-morning drinking fest known as the Yale-Harvard Game tailgate, as a U‑Haul driver ran into a crowd of people outside the Yale Bowl and killed a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman named Nancy Barry.
SOM Construction Worker Injured
by | Oct 19, 2011 1:02 pm | Comments (0)
A construction worker helping build Yale School of Management’s new $146 million campus landed in the hospital Wednesday after a steel brace fell on him.