by | May 29, 2020 9:58 am | Comments (1)
December will be a “quiet period” on Yale’s campus now that the university has decided to push entirely online the last week of classes, reading period, and final exam period for the coming fall semester.
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Elsa Mota, Shariful Khan, Daria Rose, Paula Garcia-Salazar.
Now they’ll help others with similar backgrounds do the same.
by | May 6, 2020 4:15 pm | Comments (1)
Connecticut has a blueprint for reopening colleges and universities to classes this fall. It depends on a bunch of “ifs.”
Continue reading ‘Path Seen To Fall College Reopenings, If ....’
by | May 5, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (2)
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Members of the Yale-China Association receive the donation.
At a time when the Chinese and United States governments are at odds, person-to-person pandemic cooperation was on display Monday on Temple Street.
Continue reading ‘Below Political Radar, U.S. & China Connect’
by | May 1, 2020 12:25 pm | Comments (9)
Seniors Daniela Flores (left) and Ciara Ortiz Diaz.
Pandemic-related travel limitations helped two star New Haven high schoolers pick Yale over other Ivy League as the next stop in their academic careers.
by | Apr 29, 2020 5:17 pm | Comments (1)
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Leslie Asanga was on a mission as he popped out of a rented Mitsubishi Wednesday — to help seniors and other vulnerable people get their medicine without risk of contracting Covid-19.
by | Apr 27, 2020 12:21 pm | Comments (15)
Neil Proto on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
Author Neil Proto went to Yale’s library to start researching the life of A. Bartlett Giamatti, the 39-year-old Italian-American with New Haven roots who became the Ivy League university’s first non-Anglo-Saxon president.
He came across a statement that stunned him — and steered him in an unpredictable direction.
by | Apr 23, 2020 10:25 am | Comments (4)
On Wednesday, Harvard announced it would not take $8.6 million it had originally planned to spend in federal emergency relief to cover losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Princeton and Stanford made similar announcements.
by | Apr 17, 2020 4:17 pm | Comments (1)
Volunteer tracer Ye: “Stay on the line” and listen.
Jessica Ye asked the Covid-19-positive woman on the other end whom else she has been in contact with.
“I could tell you,” responded the woman, who is in her 60s. “But they’re dead.”
by | Apr 14, 2020 9:31 am | Comments (5)
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Yale is making room for New Haven COVID-19 patients at the field hospital it set up at Payne Whitney Gymasium.
Continue reading ‘Yale Opens Makeshift Covid-19 Beds To Broader Community’
by | Apr 10, 2020 9:01 am | Comments (2)
Covid-19 has closed Yale’s campus, and shifted its student council president’s thoughts on the true state of town-gown relations.
Continue reading ‘Covid Shifted Yale Student Prez Priorities’
by | Apr 6, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Mom Aisha K. Staggers and daughter Amaya Elle Kelly.
The class of 2020 will forever remember this year as the one where everything in their world was turned on its ear and they were forced to learn early in life that normalcy can often be mistaken for complacency. At least that is what I observe in watching how the coronavirus is affecting my daughter, who is a member of that class at Hamden High School.
by | Mar 31, 2020 5:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Guard members unloading medical supplies at SCSU.
The National Guard has begun work on a temporary “surge” hospital on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) to help ease the potential health-care crisis in town once the Covid-19 spread peaks.
by | Mar 31, 2020 12:08 pm | Comments (2)
Covid-19 adds immediacy to SCSU prof’s bereavement class.
by | Mar 30, 2020 10:02 am | Comments (11)
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UNH President Steven Kaplan.
At the same time he immediately agreed to help the city house firefighters and cops in student dorms amid the Covid-19 outbreak, University of New Haven President Steven Kaplan was wrestling with tough financial financial decisions on campus.
by | Mar 27, 2020 5:28 pm | Comments (52)
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Edgewood Park on Thursday.
Elicker at presser: Yale snubbed “neighbor” in time of need.
Mayor Justin Elicker announced the second New Haven death from Covid-19 and thanked University of New Haven for stepping in after Yale refused to make dormitory rooms available to cops and firefighters for isolation.
The mayor also urged parents to keep children off playgrounds.
Continue reading ‘Covid-19 Updates: 2nd City Death; Avoid Playground; UNH Helped —Yale Bailed’
by | Mar 23, 2020 10:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Quinnipiac’s Mount Carmel campus, just after classes were canceled for the remainder of the semester.
As businesses and organizations across the country cut back on staffing because of the economic havoc wrought by the Covid-19 virus, Quinnipiac University notified faculty and staff Monday afternoon that their salaries will take a hit from the virus.
by | Mar 22, 2020 12:44 pm | Comments (21)
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Yale has repurposed a complex in its Payne-Whitney Gym into a subacute-care facility for university community members who have contracted covid-19 but don’t need to go to the hospital.
The beds are in place in the now-closed gym’s spacious Lanman Center, which in non-conavirus-shutdown days houses basketball, volleyball, and badminton competitions.
by | Mar 17, 2020 8:45 pm | Comments (0)
Connecticut’s state college and university system has decided to cancel in-person classes through “at least” the end of the semester along with commencement exercises.
Classes will take place online at least through the spring.
Continue reading ‘State College/University System Cancels In-Person Classes, Commencement’
by | Mar 14, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (2)
Yale has decided to direct students on spring break to stay home and take their courses online through the rest of the semester because of the spread of COVID-19.
It is also directing all “non-essential” employees to stay off campus and work remotely.
by | Mar 11, 2020 7:36 am | Comments (1)
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From left: Carolina Cudemus, John McKnight and Leslie Meyerhoff Tuesday at the Omni panel.
Wellesley College has identity in its mission statement — to provide an excellent education for women who will make a difference in the world.
But what does an all-female college do when a student’s gender identity changes?
Meanwhile, do cultural houses or other distinct cultural spaces on campuses work for the many identities one student can have?
Continue reading ‘Panel Explores Changing Times On Changing Campuses’
by | Mar 10, 2020 9:17 pm | Comments (0)
Local universities are telling students to stay home and resume classes online, at least for a while.
by | Mar 9, 2020 1:08 pm | Comments (11)
(Opinion) “New Haven has been Yale University’s home for over 300 years and mine for nearly 40. As a longtime Yale employee and New Haven resident, I know that the university and its city love and need each other — and that there come moments when our leaders have special reason to work closely together for the good of our community.
“… I do not believe that New Haven’s current financial problems are the result of a lack of generosity from Yale.”
Yale President Peter Salovey, 2020
“The History major is for students who understand that shaping the future requires knowing the past..”
Requirements of the Major, Department of History, Yale University
Knowing the past of New Haven and Yale’s relationship may indeed help us think through how we might seek to shape our intertwined future.
by | Mar 7, 2020 11:50 pm | Comments (0)
As the first two confirmed cases of Connecticut coronavirus were announced — of a “community doctor” who made rounds in Bridgeport and a nurse who works in Danbury/Norwalk hospitals, but live in New York — Yale directed students to cancel non-class events expected to draw more than 100 attendees.
Continue reading ‘Health Workers Infected; Large Campus Events Canceled’
by | Mar 6, 2020 4:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Mayor Justin Elicker gives an update on coronavirus at a Friday press conference.
A singer visiting New Haven for a concert is now in self-isolation after alerting public-health authorities that they’d come into contact with someone in London who has coronavirus.
Continue reading ‘City Monitors Travelers; Mayor Prescribes Air Hugs’