Yale Petition Seeks to Add Diversity to English Courses
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A student petition circulating through Yale University seeking to “decolonize” the undergraduate curriculum for English majors has caught the attention of the English department at the school. The petition is asking department faculty members to reevaluate the core and introductory courses for the major at the school. Students are pushing for […]
Despite Protests, Yale Keeps Calhoun College Name
(Image: Yale University) Yale President Peter Salovey has announced that Calhoun College, one of the 12 undergraduate residential colleges on campus, will be keeping its name in an effort to push the school to face its history dealing with slavery and to teach that history to students at the school. The college in question was […]
GLOBAL financial crash ‘MONTHS away’: Bubbles are bursting EVERY DAY, warns Yale academic
FINANCIAL bubbles across the globe are imploding and the problem is only set to get worse, an academic from one America’s top universities has warned. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Yale Adds On-Demand MOOCs on Coursera Platform
Yale has debuted a slate of on-demand MOOCs on the Coursera platform with the courses “Introduction to Negotiation”, “ A Law Student’s Toolkit”, and “The Global Financial Crisis” responding to learners’ needs for more flexibility and zero wait-time for enrollment cycles. These MOOCs are Yale’s first on-demand massive open online courses since the University started offering digital […]
Yale Responds to Student Demands Over Racism, Inequality
Yale President Peter Salovey declared this week that there is still much work to do regarding students’ concern over rising racial tensions on the university’s campus. Salovey proposed “a structure to build a more inclusive Yale” by adding four new faculty members to address underrepresented cultures, supplying multi-cultural training for employees, expanding cultural center resources, […]