“Many of us here have potential that was never realized,” said Luis (last name withheld), an incarcerated student, when reflecting on his experience in two Yale English classes. “Educational opportunities like this, which actually challenge us, help us...
Lynn Novick ’83 B.A. has big ambitions for her latest documentary “College Behind Bars.” The four-part series directed and produced by Novick, (co-produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns), airs in November on PBS and is being shown...
The newly renovated Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library features expanded study space, increased natural lighting, and a revitalized collection meant to spark curiosity and inspire scholarship.
Following a month-long soft opening in which students...
As part of his ongoing 2019 DeVane Lectures course, “Power and Politics in Today’s World,” Professor Ian Shapiro has released the first two in a series of five “virtual office hours” videos. The videos, which are meant to supplement regular in-person...
“Museum Communities and Equity” is the theme of the third annual international conference of the Global Consortium for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (GCPCH), a coalition of universities, museums, and other research institutes.
This year’s event,...
Alice Kaplan, a leading scholar of 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and history, has been named the next director of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). Her three-year term will begin July 1.
Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor...