…an investigation against Yale. In February 2020, the Justice Department sued Yale for years-long discrimination against racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular most Asian and white applicants. The Biden Administration dismissed…
…In 1883, a Yale sociologist named William Graham Sumner presented a lecture that warned against what he saw as the growing encroachments of the state to solve social problems. The…
…at places like Yale, Sarah Lawrence, and Middlebury. Nonetheless, students of all ideological backgrounds report that they regularly self-censor and limit what they say due to a fear of reputational…
…stall thereafter. Affirmative action can stigmatize successful “beneficiaries.” Sowell recalls Clarence Thomas’s lament that white employers undervalued his Yale Law degree, assuming his achievement reflected quotas, not merit. This has…
…Biden’s covid-19 advisory board supports the phases set forth by the advisory group, said one of its co-chairs, Marcella Nunez-Smith, an associate professor at the Yale School of Medicine. She…
…examples: Yale University’s motto was “Lux et Veritas,” ‘light and truth’; Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s was “Mind and Hand”; Duke University’s is “Knowledge and Faith”; my alma mater the University…
…sued Yale—that could cause the Court to wait. Most knowledgeable observers I have spoken to, however, believe the Court will accept the Harvard case. Assuming the Supreme Court does agree…
…public funding will be conceded more thoughtfully in the near future. Particularly encouraging here are Secretary DeVos’s actions against elite institutions like Princeton and Yale that have siphoned off millions…
…and Yale, as Natalia Dashan writes in “The Real Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech.” Third, most agree that more diverse organizations with good intergroup relations and fewer civil…
…Yale’s studio and fine arts program and a dentistry program at Harvard. These programs should not avoid accountability just because the rest of the university is high-performing. The release of…
…university, but is fascistic by relinquishing power to a few to decide what can be said, what speech is allowed, and what must be suppressed. It is what former Yale…
…school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism.” That includes the deans at Harvard, Yale, the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, and the College of…
…Yale president Kingman Brewster conceded virtually every demand to the Black Students at Yale (BSAY)—a black studies program a cultural center, a voice in the recruitment of black students—he unleashed…
…“The Monster of Monticello,” describing Jefferson as “a creepy, brutal hypocrite”), the brief was signed by several eminent historians — among them, Eric Foner (Columbia), David Blight (Yale), James McPherson…
…them and what wording to use. By specifying that questions must be asked by “the accused student or his agent,” Baum rejected the submitted-questions model. [Is Yale More Dangerous than…
Two American elite universities, Yale and Harvard, are now in the crosshairs of the Education Department. Why? They accepted money from foreign countries like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran…
Yale is ending the teaching of one of its most storied courses—a survey of Western Art history from the Renaissance to the present. The Yale Daily News called the action…
…Jack Montague’s lawsuit against Yale, the court denied summary judgment on both breaches of contract and basic fairness, and in a variety of areas—including whether Yale found Montague guilty despite…
…not be truthful—and therefore would be “at fault.” A system that rules out such a possibility is biased from the start. [Is Yale More Dangerous than Detroit?] The Cuomo administration…
…To which one can only respond: if only! Leave aside such student abuse of the adults in charge as the scourging of Nicholas Christakis at Yale, of Bret Weinstein at…
…can’t find a job as a professor at a good university. One of my former bosses had a degree from the highest-ranked law school (Yale) and had published scholarly articles…
…decide what can be said and what speech is allowed and what must be suppressed; it is what former Yale University president Bartlett Giamatti characterized as the “tyranny of group…
…had done the same thing. History at Yale, English at Cornell and Harvard, and philosophy at Penn, it added, had already decided to skip the GRE. [Columbia Adds Multiculturalism to…
…academic quality or any of the other measures of excellence valued by Harvard.”(This reminds me of the position attributed to critics of Yale’s decision to go co-ed: they didn’t object…
…Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite. Markovits is a professor of law at Yale, and while he paints a much broader canvas of American inequality, he is especially…
…Nine allegations, meanwhile, were filed against Yale professors. The increased number of complaints filed by female graduate students (who are a smaller percentage of the overall Yale community than female…
…trauma-informed approach as an antidote to the criminal justice process—a remark that revealed more than perhaps she intended. [After Vilifying Its Basketball Star, How Much Did Yale Have to Pay?]…
Anthony Kronman, my long-time Yale Law School colleague and perhaps the most eloquent individual I know personally, has written a brave, high-minded, argumentative, and largely persuasive book about the values…
…new edition of the study “Neo-Segregation at Yale” in New Haven on September 23rd and launching their next edition of Beach Books, which tracks these college reading programs, at First…
…risk. If you find for her, no one is likely to complain.” Gertner expanded on her perspective in a 2016 article for Yale Law Journal. Elizabeth Bartholet, meanwhile, accurately predicted—in…