Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration. The Ivy League school has sought buyers for up to $6 billion in stakes in…
In an extraordinary show of academic solidarity, 18 leading universities — including five Ivy League schools and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — have announced plans to back Harvard University in its legal battle against the Trump administration’s freeze on nearly $3 billion in federal research funding.The coordinated move marks a rare intervention by peer…
Hundreds of demonstrators in New Haven, Conn., gathered late on Wednesday to denounce a visit by Israel’s far-right national security minister, who had been invited to speak at an event near Yale University’s campus. Some demonstrators hurled water bottles at the official, Itamar Ben-Gvir, as he left the event at Shabtai, a private Jewish intellectual…
Around 200 pro-Palestinian student protesters gathered at the heart of Yale University’s campus in Beinecke Plaza on Tuesday night to oppose the upcoming visit of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. In a novel approach, Yale administrators distributed cards containing a QR code to the protesting students. The QR code was linked to the university’s…
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Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, has been busy in the early months of 2025 trying out ways to make himself a counterweight to the Trump administration. In a social-media skirmish in February over the administration’s hiring and firing of an official who had written racist posts, Mr. Khanna drew the ire of Vice President…
The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter U.S. lawmakers sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday. The work on the abducted children by…
Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, began a new job in 2023 as the deputy director of a project at Yale Law School. As an activist who had championed pro-Palestinian causes in both published papers and public appearances, Dr. Doutaghi seemed to fit into the left-leaning mission of the Law and Political Economy Project,…
In the early weeks of the Trump administration’s push to slash funding that colleges and universities rely on, grants and contracts had been cut and, in a few cases, researchers had been laid off. In recent days, the fiscal pain has come to students. At the University of Pennsylvania, administrators have asked departments in the…
Sunil Amrith (Photo courtesy: Yale News) Sunil Amrith, a renowned professor of History and chair of the South Asian Studies Council, is set to take over as the new director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Starting March 1, 2025, Amrith will succeed Steven Wilkinson, who led the center…