by | May 28, 2010 3:54 pm | Comments (5)
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Standing a few feet away from the man who forced her resignation, outgoing Southern Connecticut State University President Cheryl Norton quietly shed tears on stage at her final commencement Friday.
by | May 28, 2010 8:34 am | Comments (2)
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Their dad was always there for them. Then Clayton Bostic died suddenly a month shy of finishing his a late-in-life college career. His sons returned the service Thursday night: They accepted a certificate awarded posthumously to their father.
by | May 23, 2010 4:25 pm | Comments (8)
Graduating Yalies in silly hats heard a presidential appeal to elevate the nation’s sometimes “bizarre,” idiotic political discourse.
by | May 20, 2010 8:58 am | Comments (12)
In the face of a new lawsuit by one irate neighbor, and concerns about a slimmed-down pedestrian walkway, Yale earned approval for more detailed plans for its School of Management campus.
by | Feb 26, 2010 9:02 am | Comments (0)
After failing to land a spot at another school — and after months of speculation by faculty members that she was being forced out of her job — Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) President Cheryl Norton announced she is retiring.
by | Feb 12, 2010 11:28 am | Comments (18)
Will it become a glorious addition to the city like Ingalls Rink, much beloved after a controversial beginning? Or will it become a “monument to corporate control” and destroy the harmony of a neighborhood?
by | Feb 1, 2010 8:22 am | Comments (3)
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It was boolah boolah at Yale, not so much for the Bulldogs as for the 2010 Census and the good old U.S. Constitution that mandates it.
by | Jan 29, 2010 9:18 am | Comments (27)
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A hundred construction workers like Kenyata Woods and Tim Sullivan showed up at City Hall Thursday night. They weren’t there on a job. They were asking for one.
by | Jan 22, 2010 4:47 pm | Comments (10)
Yale returned to East Rock neighbors with revised plans for its $145 million new School of Management building.
by | Dec 17, 2009 8:28 am | Comments (6)
Yale got provisional permission to build a bold new home for its School of Management —but only after it has the $145 million to pay for it.
by | Nov 19, 2009 9:14 am | Comments (39)
Members of a private Whitney Avenue club looked at their new next-door neighbor’s plans — and were dismayed to find a glass and steel building “looming” over their tennis courts.
by | Nov 3, 2009 4:11 pm | Comments (0)
The state medical examiner has not yet determined the cause of Yale student Andre Narcisse’s death.
Continue reading ‘Yale Student’s Death: Autopsy Results Will Take Weeks’
by | Sep 15, 2009 7:12 am | Comments (0)
These two mourners listened to Annie Le’s roommate tell a hushed crowd of 1,000 people on Yale’s Cross Campus that the murdered graduate student was “as good a human being as you’d ever hope to meet. She was also tenacious … and tougher than you’d think by just looking at her.”
by | Aug 31, 2009 11:35 am | Comments (2)
The flood of federal “economic stimulus” dollars flowing into New Haven has washed up at Yale University’s gates and New Haven’s housing authority in a big way.
by | Aug 13, 2009 11:38 am | Comments (5)
Yale hopes to raze 6.5 downtown acres to make room for the construction of two new residential colleges. The Historic District Commission is not pleased with the plan.
by | May 27, 2009 2:39 pm | Comments (0)
A meeting at a U.S. Navy reunion with a fellow submarine mechanic nearly a decade ago convinced a 48-year old grandfather named Forrest Gross to pursue a career in medicine.
Continue reading ‘Sub Mechanic Graduates As Registered Nurse’
by | May 25, 2009 10:58 am | Comments (3)
A year after her alma mater dissed her on the presidential campaign trail, Yale opened its arms to Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday by awarding her an honorary degree.
by | May 4, 2009 7:55 am | Comments (0)
Veteran Mike Bonaldo (pictured) wanted to find out if he’s eligible for payments under a new GI bill for those who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan since September 11, 2001. What he got was a 90-minute explanation that led U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro to declare, “I’d be less than honest if I didn’t say that this is confusing at best.”
by | May 1, 2009 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
Construction of the $198 million Gateway Community College in downtown New Haven moved one step closer Friday as the state official took possession of the former Malley’s and Macy’s sites for $1.
by | Apr 13, 2009 7:30 am | Comments (6)
In nearly 30 years at Yale, Ken Jones has stuck it out through five strikes. He plans to avoid another one by voting “yes” Tuesday on a new contract — nine months before the current one expires.
Continue reading ‘Yale Workers Set to Ratify Historic Contract’
by | Mar 23, 2009 4:25 pm | Comments (2)
As expected, Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh is being nominated to a post with the Obama Administration.
by | Feb 24, 2009 12:40 pm | Comments (1)
Amid “mounting evidence” or a “prolonged recession,” Yale President Rick Levin announced Monday that the university is planning deeper cuts.
by | Jan 30, 2009 8:07 am | Comments (2)
As the moon flirted with Venus in the western sky Thursday night, Yale officially opened its $1.4 million state-of-the-art Leitner planetarium, which joins a 16-inch telescope in a new complex off Prospect Street.
by | Dec 18, 2008 4:04 pm | Comments (1)
Community college students struggling to balance tough personal finances with the pursuit of higher education got a boost Thursday.
by | Dec 17, 2008 2:57 pm | Comments (10)
In a $34 million land deal, Yale University has bought a permanent home for its School of Nursing.
Continue reading ‘Yale Nursing School Gets A Permanent Home’