FACULTY & ACADEMICS
YOLANDA WANG
Jewish Yale faculty sign letter denouncing Trump’s attacks on pro-Palestine dissenters

The statement, which rejected “cynical” claims of antisemitism, urged universities across the U.S. to resist federal actions like the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and to protect university members’ right to free speech.

March 24, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
“The world has failed Burma”: Son of imprisoned Nobel laureate calls for action at Yale

Thirteen years after his mother, Aung San Suu Kyi, delivered a sold-out talk at Yale, Kim Aris held an intimate discussion with Yale’s Council of Southeast Asian Studies to raise awareness of his mother’s detention.

March 24, 2025

ELSPETH YEH
Academic affairs: The love stories of Yale’s faculty

Every year, Valentine’s Day proves that love is everywhere. Certainly, romance at Yale graces the lives of every community member, including the illustrious minds that […]

February 14, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
CS department defers to instructors on classroom AI policy

Yale College administrators have taken a discretionary approach to regulating the use of artificial intelligence in classrooms, resulting in differing policies across Computer Science courses.

February 12, 2025

BAALA SHAKYA
Grand Strategy welcomes most competitive cohort in history

The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy announced that 22 students have been selected of almost 180 applicants.

February 11, 2025

OLIVIA WOO
Poorvu Center seeks to expand AI integration into classrooms

Applications for the pilot AI Course Revision Pilot Grant are open for instructors who want to integrate artificial intelligence into their curriculum.

February 6, 2025

YOLANDA WANG & JULIA LEVY
“This was CS50”: Yale ends largest computer science course

After a decade of partnership with Harvard, Yale’s CS50 course will no longer be offered starting in fall 2025 due to limited funding and an expanding computer science department.

February 4, 2025

OLIVIA CYRUS
YCC pushes for non-English courses to fulfill writing requirement

A new policy proposal aims to make Yale’s writing requirement more inclusive, recognizing academic writing in multiple languages as equally valuable.

January 29, 2025

KARLA CORTES
Yale pushes for largely in-person courses, discourages asynchronous course requests

During COVID-19 and beyond, courses often received permission to use asynchronous formats in teaching. Now, Yale is strongly reiterating its expectation that teaching will be in person.

January 24, 2025

ELSPETH YEH & YOLANDA WANG
Yale seeking new Palestinian studies postdoctoral associate

Posted by the Yale Council on Middle East Studies, the position will entail both teaching and research and comes after pro-Palestine students called for investment in Palestinian scholarship.

January 22, 2025

ISOBEL MCCLURE
Grading delays limit opportunities for some students

Incomplete transcripts prevented some first-year students from applying for summer opportunities and fellowships.

January 21, 2025