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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.
May 6, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this David F. Swensen ’80 Ph.D., whose revolutionary approach to managing Yale’s endowment, warmth of spirit, and personal integrity made him one of the world’s most admired institutional investors and a beloved member of the Yale community, died May 5 in New Haven, after a long battle with cancer. He was 67. Self-confident, selfless, spirited, and guided by a finely tuned moral compass, Swensen assumed management of Yale’s endowment in the mid-1980s, when he was in his early ...
Navy opposes proposed zoning change in Flour Bluff and last updated 2021-04-15 20:01:08-04 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â A proposed Flour Bluff development that would build 615 apartments and additional commercial space does not have the support of the Navy. At Wednesday's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi Community Planning Liaison Officer Ben Polak gave several reasons why the Navy does not support the rezoning of approximately 40 acres at 1402 Flour Bluff Drive. It's the first rezone the navy has opposed since the Corpus Christi Independent School Dist...
Q&A with Ben Polak: The former provost returns to teaching Monday, December 14, 2020 Ben Polak, the William C. Brainard Professor of Economics, stepped down as Provost in February 2020 after serving seven years in the position. He has rejoined his faculty peers in the department resuming his teaching. We asked Professor Polak what his time was like as Provost and how his time has been back in front of the class (albeit virtual this term). As an economist, what strengths do you feel you brought to the provost position? Economists, me included, bring strengths but also weaknesses to adminis...