Since Yale’s first century, Yale College seniors and faculty have gathered before Commencement for the Baccalaureate ceremony, a ceremony with a Baccalaureate sermon at its heart. The sermon of days past has given way to an address by Yale’s president and...
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun offered the following readings during the Baccalaureate ceremonies on May 18 and 19.
Mr. President, Mr. Provost, Madame Secretary, deans, college heads, college deans, colleagues, friends, families, and, most of all, members...
The Yale School of Art will welcome Meleko Mokgosi as associate professor in painting/printmaking in July.
Mokgosi is engaged in a project-based practice positioned between cinema studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and post-colonial studies. As...
“Community” is the word graduating senior Alanna Pyke utters most often when reflecting on her time at Yale.
“What I really came to value here is a sense of community and being a part of something that is bigger than myself,” says Pyke of her Yale College...
“Each year, gathering with students from so many different schools … always motivated me to come back and work hard to make Yale the most welcoming and supportive place it can be for first-generation, low-income students,” said Maddy O’Neal, 22, from...
Children born in poverty often experience negative consequences over the course of their lives and pass on the same disadvantages to their own children.
Now a new initiative introduced at Yale aims to break the cycle of poverty by focusing first on the...
President Peter Salovey is shown above with participants in the Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact, a keystone program of the Yale Africa Initiative, an ongoing effort by Yale to prioritize and expand upon its collaborations on the continent.
This...