Yale University sued over student mental health policies
Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing โunreasonable burdensโ on those who seek to be reinstated.
Ex-Yale coach gets 5 months in admissions bribery scandal
The former Yale University womenโs soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the schemeโs mastermind has been sentenced to five months in prison.
Medina Valley High School senior hopes to make her mom proud with full-ride scholarship to Yale University
Aya Kasim, a senior at Medina Valley High School, says she was running and screaming down the school hallway when she found out her next destination after graduation was Yale University after getting a full-ride scholarship to the Ivy League school.
Justice Department drops Yale admissions discrimination suit
FILE - In this May 24, 2010 file photo, future graduates wait for the procession to begin for commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. The Biden Justice Department says it is dismissing its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University. On Feb. 3, 2021, the Justice Department noted in its filing that it was voluntarily dismissing the action. Federal prosecutors said the Justice Departmentโs underlying investigation, aimed at ensuring Yale complies with federal anti-discrimination laws, continues. The groupโs president, Kristen Clarke, is Bidenโs nominee to run the Justice Departmentโs civil rights divisionAdBidenโs Justice Department is working to undo Trump policies, including โzero tolerance,โ the immigration policy that was responsible for family separations.
Climate Minute: Opinions on Global Warming
Climate Minute: Opinions on Global WarmingPublished: October 21, 2020, 9:58 amMeteorologist Sarah Spivey walks you through a study conducted by Yale University explaining the differences of opinion on climate change on a local, state, and national level. Link to the study: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
Feds sue Yale, allege discrimination against applicants
WASHINGTON โ The Justice Department sued Yale University on Thursday, weeks after prosecutors found the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law. A statement from the university president said Yale will not change its admissions practices as a result of the suit. The action from the Justice Department is the latest by the Trump administration in a long-running effort aimed at rooting out discrimination in the college application process, following complaints from students about the application process at some Ivy League colleges. The Justice Departmentโs investigation โ which stemmed from a 2016 complaint against Yale, Brown and Dartmouth โ also found that Yale uses race as a factor in multiple steps of the admissions process and that Yale โracially balances its classes," officials said. Schools also bear the burden of showing why their consideration of race is appropriate.
Feds accuse Yale of discriminating against some applicants
WASHINGTON A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday. The two-year investigation concluded that Yale rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit, the Justice Department said. Yales race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who heads the departments civil rights division, wrote in a letter to the colleges attorneys. Yale has previously denied that its admissions process discriminates against Asian Americans or any other ethnic group. In the Harvard case, the Justice Department had argued that the university went too far in its use of race, but the judge disagreed.