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Yale professor makes test optional so students can cope with Trump win

A professor at Yale University has made an exam optional to allow his students to cope with their psychological devastation from Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election.

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Harvard Law profs challenge federal sex-assault ‘guidance’

CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's Education Department over its practice of using "Dear Colleague" letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans' constitutional rights. A letter from

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New series of protests at Yale accompany start of academic year

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — With a new academic year underway at Yale University, activists are picking up where they left off last spring. The focus, again, is on the name of one particular college at the prestigious Ivy League university — Calhoun College, named after American statesman John C. Calhoun, who advocated

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Harvard defends itself in Title IX lawsuit

BOSTON — Harvard University is not backing down from challenging a female graduate's federal lawsuit claiming the school was negligent in adjudicating a sexual assault allegation in accordance to new Title IX policies. In a motion to dismiss, attorneys representing the prestigious Ivy League institution claim the school did

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Harvard upstarts fall short in Board of Overseers vote

CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making admissions more transparent have come up short. On Monday, Harvard announced the five winning candidates who emerged from a field of 13. The new members include the president

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Andover Newton to partner with Yale, shutter Mass. campus

The nation's oldest graduate school of theology is planning to relocate from Newton, Mass., to New Haven, Conn., where a small remnant of the faculty will teach on the campus of Yale Divinity School. On Monday (May 2), Martin Copenhaver, president of Andover Newton Theological School, said he

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Yale dumps ‘master’ title, preserves ‘triggering’ Calhoun name

NEW HAVEN — Yale University will keep the name of a residential college named after a 19th century alumnus and statesman, best known for his vehement defense of slavery, but will eliminate the title of "master" for faculty who live among the students and supervise residential facilities, even though

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Harvard steps may lead down a thorny path

CAMBRIDGE – The latest call by students at Harvard University for the school to purge terms or symbols deemed offensive by a vocal minority raises what could be a confounding issue: How far will the 379-year-old school go to distance itself from historic figures whose actions and social values we would