Yale Daily News

The head coach position for the Yale baseball team was endowed by Francis “Fay” Vincent Jr. in honor of his father.

January 25, 2024

Yale joined Brown, Columbia, Duke and Emory in agreeing to settle the lawsuit, which alleged that 17 elite universities colluded to price-fix and reduce financial aid awards.

January 24, 2024

The United States Department of Education opened a Title VI Shared Ancestry investigation into Yale and four other schools, per the most recent listing of cases by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Yale officials did not clarify the details surrounding what they called the “one specific event” prompting the investigation.

January 24, 2024

Following Cornell’s recent decision to partner with QuestBridge, Harvard has become the only Ivy League school not to work with the organization. Low-income students at Yale and Harvard told the News about how QuestBridge affected their admissions process.

January 24, 2024

In 2013, the University found Professor Michael Simons guilty of sexual harassment and disciplined him accordingly. Simons claimed that five years later, Yale punished him again for the same conduct in a gender-discriminatory effort to appease campus supporters of the #MeToo movement; a federal court last week allowed the case to move to trial.

January 23, 2024

Yale isn’t the only university looking for a new leader — and recent presidential turmoil across the country may be changing Yale’s search calculus.

January 22, 2024

Starting in the 2024-2025 academic year, the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid will implement a new, personal financial aid counseling model. The change comes after months of student complaints about long wait times and unresponsiveness.

January 22, 2024

In an announcement to the Yale community on Jan. 16, Maytal Saltiel was named the new University Chaplain. She will be the eighth chaplain for the University and the first Jewish chaplain.

January 18, 2024

In a Tuesday statement to the Harvard community, Claudine Gay announced her immediate resignation as Harvard’s president. Her departure comes as she continues to face criticism for her responses during a Dec. 5 Congressional hearing on campus antisemitism as well as allegations of plagiarism.

January 2, 2024

Of 7,856 early action applicants, Yale College admitted 709 students to the class of 2028 — the lowest early acceptance rate in the history of Yale’s current non-binding early action program.

December 14, 2023

After an individual lodged a Palestinian flag in a menorah on the New Haven Green during a protest on Saturday, city officials and faith leaders condemned the act as hateful — as did protest organizers and Yale in a University statement.

December 12, 2023