NH Scholarship Fund Taking Applications
by | Feb 18, 2021 11:05 am | Comments (0)
Attention high school seniors: You can apply for help with paying for college through the New Haven Scholarship Fund.
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Feds To Drop Affirmative Action Suit Against Yale
by | Feb 3, 2021 2:34 pm | Comments (4)
The Biden Administration has moved to drop a federal lawsuit pursued by the former Trump Administration against Yale University regarding its alleged discrimination against White and Asian undergraduate applicants.
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YNHH Docs Reassure Hill On Vaccine Side Effects
by | Jan 21, 2021 2:23 pm | Comments (1)
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If you’ve gotten the shingles or flu vaccine before, you can handle a Covid-19 shot.
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Gov’t-Watchers Zoom In On Zoomocracy
by | Jan 20, 2021 12:32 pm | Comments (2)
Jonathan Wharton, Jodie Gil on WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven.”
Some local elected officials heard from their constituents more. They faced them less.
So went the first year of “Zoomacracy,” the move of municipal public meetings online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study by two local government-watchers. The results offer lessons for year two — and beyond, when life returns to a new normal.
More QU Students Would Live On Campus Under New Master Plan
by | Jan 13, 2021 11:46 am | Comments (3)
Starting next fall, Quinnipiac University will require all students to live on campus for at least three years.
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State Profs Slam Draft Contract
by | Dec 18, 2020 11:23 am | Comments (12)
Prof. Maureen Chalmers: Board of Regents gets an F.
A dozen professors and students blasted cost-cutting measures planned by the Connecticut Board of Regents for cost-cutting measures — including a proposed contract under negotiation — as a disinvestment in faculty well-being, student advising, and the quality of education.
Plans Tweaked For Campus Return
by | Dec 11, 2020 2:53 pm | Comments (1)
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SCSU’s Jess Guerrucci: Life felt almost normal.
University of New Haven students will return to campus dorms to take five times as many tests — not for their courses, but for the coronavirus.
Horns Blare, Then Silent Night Shines
by | Dec 11, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (17)
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Drivers honked to protest Yale. Marchers chanted and claimed the street. A boxed-in bus driver yelled his own protest and ended up in a rush-hour stand-off. Other drivers slipped by ferrying menorahs.
The evening ended with a hushed tree-lighting to launch the official Christmas shopping season.
60 Watch Albertus Tree-Lighting — From Home
by | Dec 8, 2020 3:51 pm | Comments (0)
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Annual tradition of lighting a Christmas tree on campus continued at Albertus Magnus College, pandemic-style.
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Opinion: Time For A Yale “Fair Share” Pivot
by | Nov 24, 2020 4:51 pm | Comments (28)
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Flyer left on doors across town this past weekend.
Just in the past week, this news site revealed that the mayor is engaged in clandestine discussions with Yale University concerning its financial contributions to the city.
In addition, just this past weekend I received a door hanger reminding me of the value of Yale’s tax exemption as part of a campaign organized by New Haven Rising, an extension of the Yale unions.
The demand for more financial support from Yale has repeatedly come to the fore in New Haven for decades, particularly during tight budget times, without any clear resolution. I propose that we change how we frame the issue — and try some new strategies for getting Yale to pay its fair share.
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Legal Trailblazer Drew Days Dies
by | Nov 16, 2020 3:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Drew Days representing the Proprietors of the Green in a meeting with “Occupy New Haven” protesters in 2012.
Drew Saunders Days III, a leading civil-rights attorney and former U.S. solicitor general who also broke barriers at home in New Haven, died Sunday at the age of 79.
Covid Thwarts Booze, Party Policies
by | Nov 13, 2020 2:09 pm | Comments (2)
University of New Haven students can’t have friends visit them in their dorm rooms. Quinnipiac University students are being sent home for attending off-campus parties. SCSU is requiring RAs to double-swipe students’ IDs before allowing them inside buildings.
Those latest measures have failed to stop Covid-19 outbreaks, at least at the first two schools. They do show some of the different ways campuses are struggling to figure out how to keep the pandemic in check.
Mechanics’ Dream Rounds A Final Lap
by | Nov 13, 2020 12:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Allyn Manning this week with his Gateway student workshop.
Shamraiz Khan’s dream is coming a semester closer to reality next week, after the Covid-19 pandemic tried to throw monkey wrench in it.
QU Locks Down; Yale Quarantines Dorms
by | Nov 8, 2020 5:59 pm | Comments (6)
Over the course of two days, 115 Quinnipiac students learned they had Covid-19 — causing the university to go into “high-risk” lockdown mode.
A smaller outbreak has led to a partial lockdown of three Yale residential colleges.
Covid Outbreak Moves QU Classes Online
by | Nov 4, 2020 6:51 pm | Comments (1)
Quinnipiac University is facing an outbreak of Covid-19 — and moved all classes temporarily online as a result.
Weekly Saliva Tests Planned For Schools Reopening
by | Oct 27, 2020 5:27 pm | Comments (1)
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Grubaugh: A test so easy a kindergartener can do it.
Every teacher, lunch lady, custodian and high school student would take a weekly test to determine whether they have caught Covid-19 — without costing schools, workers or families a cent.
Yale professor Nathan Grubaugh revealed that proposal for weekly saliva testing at Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.
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Yale Spends, Tests More; Practices Vary
by | Oct 27, 2020 11:55 am | Comments (6)
Jacob Payne: 17 tests, and counting
UNH is ramping up random testing. Albertus is focusing on student-athletes, who get swabbed every other week. Yale is screening all undergrads twice weekly. Most commuter students at Southern needn’t get tested at all.
Those four New Haven schools have tried different approaches to Covid-19 this semester — and preliminary results are in.
“K.I.S.S.” Keeps Auto Cohort Humming
by | Oct 26, 2020 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Under the hood at Gateway’s car lab.
They lost one week, but aspiring mechanics got back in the shop and closer to the semester finish line after a Covid-19 scare.
Covid-Positive Chef: UNH “Bats Blind Eye”
by | Oct 19, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Sous chef Nick Hurwitz-Goodman cooking at a pre-Covid event.
Nick Hurwitz-Goodman, a sous chef at the University of New Haven, was feeling fine. But Covid-19 was spreading fast on campus, so he decided to get tested.
Hurwitz-Goodman tested positive. Now he is stuck at home, uncertain if he’ll develop symptoms, worried about his coworkers who might also have been exposed to the virus.
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Colleges Confront Climbing Covid Cases
by | Oct 15, 2020 5:55 pm | Comments (0)
As the University of New Haven contends with a growing Covid-19 outbreak on campus, two other local colleges reported rising cases of the virus.
Classes Move Online As Outbreak Spreads
by | Oct 12, 2020 9:49 pm | Comments (9)
Summer McGee presents breakdown of Covid-hit dorms and floors.
University of New Haven officials came under fire Monday night for failure to contain a Covid-19 outbreak that spread to 100 cases — and caused an abrupt shift to online classes and a ban on all gatherings.
Despite An Outbreak, Colleges Stay Course
by | Oct 9, 2020 12:54 pm | Comments (2)
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SCSU dorm: Messaging gets through.
University of New Haven is sending orders of Insomnia Cookies to students in one of its dorms — after ordering a two-week quarantine after campus Covid-19 cases leapt from 1 to 50 in one week.
As of now, UNH does not foresee moving to a more virtual format or limiting on-campus life further. Despite the one outbreak, UNH and other colleges and universities conclude that their pandemic measures have been succeeding this fall, so they’re committing to staying the course in continuing their policies this coming spring.
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Feds Sue Yale For Alleged Racial Discrimination
by | Oct 8, 2020 8:04 pm | Comments (7)
The Trump Administration has sued Yale University for allegedly violating federal civil rights law by discriminating against white and Asian undergraduate applicants.
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In Car Lab, They’re Geared Up For Covid
by | Oct 2, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (0)
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Gateway GM lab students mine the mysteries of a Chevy Colorado.
Like this year’s Major League Baseball players, a team of future mechanics is racing through a condensed in-person season at Gateway Community College with precautions aimed at avoiding a Covid-19 outbreak.
Hundreds March To Press SCSU To Carry Out “Social Justice” Mission
by | Oct 1, 2020 10:34 am | Comments (2)
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Hundreds of Southern Connecticut State University students marched to demand that their school live up to its “social justice” mission — as the campus president joined them and vowed to help make that happen.
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