POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
TRISTAN HERNANDEZ, BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & MOLLY REINMANN
Tuition hikes continue to outpace inflation, admin say financial aid rising concurrently

As costs rise by nearly 4 percent for the 2023-24 academic year, University administrators told the News that financial aid packages rise concurrently with tuition hikes, which were attributed to inflation.

March 1, 2024

TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Yale Health stops collecting positive COVID-19 reports

Nearly four years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale Health will end its COVID Resource Line, move COVID-19 information away from a specified website to the Campus Health website and stop collecting positive case reports.

February 28, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & BEN RAAB
Judge rules in favor of Yale Corporation’s right to end alumni petition process, alumni likely to appeal

The ruling stems from a March 2022 lawsuit alleging that the Corporation's termination of the petition process violates the terms of an 1872 amendment to Yale’s charter.

February 28, 2024

MOLLY REINMANN
‘New flavor of standardized testing’: admissions office shares details on Yale’s new ‘test-flexible’ policy

In an interview with the News, the admissions office explained the motivations behind its new “test-flexible” policy, which will once again mandate that applicants submit standardized test scores starting next fall — but will allow applicants to choose between submitting SAT, ACT, AP or IB scores.

February 22, 2024

MOLLY REINMANN
Yale reinstates standardized testing requirement, allows AP and IB scores

In addition to SAT and ACT scores, students will be able to submit Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate scores to fulfill Yale College’s new “test-flexible” policy beginning with applicants to the class of 2029.

February 22, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Mental health ranks as top student concern in presidential search report

According to a report of over 1,800 student responses compiled by the Presidential Search Student Advisory Council, student mental health is Yale’s top challenge for its next leader.

February 22, 2024

MOLLY REINMANN & JOSIE REICH
International students describe unequal access to standardized test centers

A News survey found that international respondents who receive financial aid were less likely to have taken a standardized test when applying to college than respondents paying full price to attend Yale. The News spoke to several international students who said that difficulty accessing test centers and affording the tests were part of the reason why.

February 21, 2024

HUDSON WARM
Yale confronts ties to slavery in Professor David Blight’s ‘Yale and Slavery’

Published on Friday, Feb. 16, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, Blight’s narrative history sheds light on Yale’s historical entanglement with the practice of racial slavery.

February 21, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale faculty sign letter addressed to Yale’s future president, affirms commitment to social justice

The letter — signed by more than 100 faculty members at Yale College, Yale Law School and the Yale School of Medicine, among others — offers six aspirations for Yale’s future president’s tenure.

February 20, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Yale apologizes for ties to slavery in new report, pledges list of actions

Alongside the release of history professor David Blight’s book on “Yale and Slavery: A History” on Friday, the University formally apologized for the role slavery played in the institution and its early leaders’ lives. In response, Yale has announced a set of actions, some of which were first announced in the previous two years, to acknowledge the school’s ties to the institution of slavery.

February 19, 2024

HANWEN ZHANG
Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative continues research this spring

Entering its second year, the Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative has investigated bird deaths caused by building collisions and is making changes across Yale’s campus.

February 18, 2024