by | Dec 16, 2008 4:53 pm | Comments (4)
Yale’s endowment dropped about 25 percent to $17 billion since July, returning to where it stood in January 2006 before a period of dramatic growth, Yale President Rick Levin announced Tuesday.
by | Nov 6, 2008 9:58 am | Comments (0)
On the morning after the election, hope was very much in the air for young people at Gateway Community College. It took, among other manifestations, the form of a more seamless transfer process to receive a four-year degree, and lots of generous new scholarship money.
by | Oct 20, 2008 5:30 pm | Comments (2)
Young entrepreneurs-in-the-making like Gateway Community College’s Faiza Malik well might find entre to far-flung international markets close to home thanks to some help announced Monday from the U.S. Commerce Department.
by | Jul 8, 2008 8:27 am | Comments (1)
Kyle Jones knows an opportunity when he sees it — so he’s training for a health care career that’s in great demand, and his employer’s paying the tab.
by | May 14, 2008 8:08 am | Comments (12)
Carl Goldfield had a question: In a world of $4 a gallon gasoline, global warming, and an obesity epidemic, should any institution be building three new parking lots so people can “roll out of their cars into their offices” or classrooms?
by | Apr 22, 2008 8:31 am | Comments (20)
She was a medical student who planned to specialize in emergency medicine. She was hit by a car — and had emergency surgery in the very hospital where she’d been caring for others the day before.
by | Apr 17, 2008 10:32 pm | Comments (3)
Statement by Yale Spokeswoman Helaine S. Klasky (in response to this article, which caused an international sensation))
Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a womanís body.She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.
Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised
serious mental and physical health concerns.
by | Nov 20, 2007 9:28 am | Comments (0)
An old Prospect Street mansion’s getting a new addition to make room for all the international gatherings taking place at New Haven’s ever-more-global Ivy League university.
by | Sep 17, 2007 12:36 pm | Comments (6)
Lord Norman Foster, the man who brought this icy tower to the NYC skyline and the fantastical Milleau Viaduct to France, has been chosen to design a new Yale building on Whitney Avenue.
by | Feb 1, 2007 12:48 am | Comments (1)
Before a packed crowd at the Yale Law School Auditorium, investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh berated the Bush Administration for its handling of the Iraq war and called President Bush “the most radical president we’ve ever had.”¬ù
by | Dec 15, 2006 10:00 am | Comments (1)
Thursday was graduation day for young people grabbing a second chance at a promising life — at the Job Corps, by West Rock. It was a moving day for all involved. And it featured a version of the Star Spangled Banner, in three-party harmony, like none you’re ever heard before. (The stars of a certain new movie should watch out.) Click on the play arrow below to watch it. Please be patient: the anthem comes a bit more than two minutes into the clip. And click here for more footage of the event, including a pre-recorded version of Pachelbel’s Canon that might also blow your mind. (Note: If videos stop and start, press pause for a minute to allow them to load, then press start again.)
by | Dec 5, 2006 3:17 pm | Comments (0)
This man knows firsthand about global trade and where it’s going: He started and runs the $33 billion worldwide shipping giant known as FedEx. In a return visit to New Haven Tuesday, he said that talk about “rolling back” globalization misses the reality on the ground — and in the air.
by | Nov 30, 2006 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
Problem: A late-semester flood hit the main library at Southern Connecticut State University. Periodicals and academic journals stored on the lowest two floors suffered water damage when a pipe burst .
The solution? Freeze ‘em.
by | Nov 29, 2006 8:25 am | Comments (1)
Doris Rogan (pictured), brought up to be a “very good girl,” made history by bringing her sleeping bag, uninvited, into a Yale official’s office. She and her compatriots were honored as heroes at an event calling for a new pension fight.
Continue reading ‘Labor “Heroes” Inspire New Pension Campaign’
by | Sep 12, 2006 11:31 am | Comments (0)
A chorus of “aye“s and not a single “nay” were voiced during the monthly New Haven Economic Development Commission meeting Tuesday. The meeting addressed three ongoing city development projects, including recent changes to the design plans for Gateway Community College downtown.
Continue reading ‘New Gateway Parking Plan Discussed; Compasso Expansion Approved’
by | May 26, 2006 8:37 am | Comments (2)
Refugees from a civil war in Sudan, these men braved lions and gunfire to flee their country at an early age. Thursday, after five years juggling English, coursework and warehouse jobs, they reached a milestone in their new U.S. lives: Graduation from Gateway Community College.
by | May 10, 2006 9:53 pm | Comments (1)
This guy scored a color printer. Others found an iPod and a Tiffany’s pen. Read on to see who found what in the mountain of salvageable goodies Yale students threw to the curb Wednesday, their last day to leave the dorms.
by | May 10, 2006 3:49 pm | Comments (1)
A revelation about how cities evolve comes to the Independent’s “Democracy School“ diarist on her way back from Week Two.
by | Apr 21, 2006 12:41 pm | Comments (8)
Red and yellow banners, dueling megaphones, meditators and marching band members turned downtown New Haven into a battleground of protest and response Friday as China’s president came to town. The confrontations brought to the surface the global debate underlying Yale’s decision to take the lead among Western universities in embracing the China Miracle.
by | Apr 16, 2006 11:43 pm | Comments (0)
Most parents worry at least a little about sending their beloved daughters off to college — and they should. It turns out that first-year female college students are at high risk of being sexually assaulted. That was evident when four score students — including quite a few males — gathered at the Women’s Table in front of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale to share stories of violence and march to Take Back the Night.
by | Apr 13, 2006 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
You’re about to get to know this woman’s face better — as well as her vision of who fits into the New Haven of the future. She runs New Haven’s fast-growing community college, which is poised to become an anchor of a newly rebuilt downtown.
by | Dec 23, 2005 8:57 am | Comments (0)
This man and his school are in the process of tackling that question. His answer so far: Change the world, beginning with New Haven.
by | Dec 5, 2005 10:36 am | Comments (0)
Following is a statement Yale President Richard Levin released Monday to the university community announcing that John Pepper is stepping down as vice-president for finance and administration.
by | Nov 28, 2005 1:07 pm | Comments (0)
Following is the text of a press release issued Monday by the International Students’ Organizing Committee of the Graduate Employees and Students’ Organization (GESO) at Yale. It concerns a meeting between state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Chinese scholars at Yale who feel discriminated against by the university.
by | Nov 10, 2005 11:54 am | Comments (0)
A Chinese legal scholar is in New Haven hunting for ideas. He wants to help reform his country’s prison system. Even though our own country’s prisons are bursting, Liu Qiang is finding encouraging alternatives here to what his country calls “harsh punishment.”