Departments across the University may soon need to downsize or lay off employees to meet reduced budget targets as Yale cuts costs in preparation for the endowment tax hike set to take effect in July, administrators announced in a Wednesday message... — read more 

Higher Education Inquirer : When Was Higher Education Truly a Public Good? (Glen McGhee) https://share.google/lNeAzv5hdLtA1M5a5

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2025/04/yale-law-school-firing-sparks-debate.html

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2025/03/yale-professor-jason-stanley-leaves-for.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-wh-z-kid-who-made-billions-for-yale-is-rethinking-his-china-strategy/

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/07/how-would-mass-deportations-affect-us.html

Learn more about the largest online student protest in history at https://www.hurricanetwou.com

"Nearly 80% of Americans surveyed in a new U.S. News-Harris Poll survey say that higher education institutions are more worried about their endowment than creating leaders of tomorrow, and more than 60% believe they are prioritizing donors, press and... — read more 

A People's History of US Higher Education is sorely needed, not as a purely academic work to gather dust on shelves, or as internet click bait, but as a way to assess how our nation moves forward as a democracy--or as something less. To make history... — read more 

https://www.theheagroup.com/blog/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-rating-higher-ed-by-economic-mobility

"Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, they announced this week. Some 3,214 workers total were eligible to vote." "Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing... — read more 

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2022/11/university-of-california-academic.html https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-23/uc-grad-student-workers-ratify-labor-agreement-end-historic-strike-with-big-wage-gains

What lessons have been learned? https://books.google.com/books?id=klWrNx0jtt8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.highereddive.com/news/price-fixing-lawsuit-against-568-group-of-top-ranked-universities-can-conti/629837/

"For pay that keeps up with the cost of living, healthcare that meets our needs and doesn’t drain our savings, protections for international workers, independent grievance procedures, and a seat at the table… Let’s win our union. Vote UNION YES!. Now... — read more 

"Union efforts among academic workers have picked up over the last decade, including many organizing campaigns and strikes since the pandemic hit....Adjunct professors at New York University and the New School could soon go on strike. Graduate... — read more 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/11/yale-suicides-mental-health-withdrawals/

And so it goes... https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/learning-innovation/why-i%E2%80%99m-talking-%E2%80%98-shadow-ivory-tower%E2%80%99

Student activists in the Endowment Justice Coalition claimed in a complaint filed Wednesday that the University’s continued investments in the fossil fuel industry violate state law... — read more 

For those aspirational folks who thought anything different about meritocracy and upward mobility, you can wake up now... https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-maintaining-class-inequality-at-any-cost-is-gops-guiding-mission/

Propagation of Fascism in 2022 (Contemporary Examples) *Role of Corporate Power in Higher Education (e.g. Boards, Endowments, Contracts) *Role of Elite Families in Higher Education (e.g. Walton Family Foundation, Koch Brothers) *Role of Higher... — read more 

"A lawsuit filed Sunday alleges that 16 major U.S. universities and colleges, including a number of Ivy League schools, have violated antitrust laws by working together to determine students' financial aid packages." "Among the schools named in the... — read more 

Here's historical context for understanding faculty and the College Meltdown. Bousquet was a genius, with articles like this, and the classic, "How the University Works." Much of his work is available for... — read more 

https://ctas.substack.com/p/the-semi-rich-and-elite-overproduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9UCvn_YdJE https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2021/07/academic-capitalism-and-next-phase-of.html

https://www.theonion.com/where-s-the-rest-of-it-screams-yale-president-standi-1848031480?fbclid=IwAR1-K7STGwVp2b734fluzeqjxGzJ0NffNtpCVMFqao3UlPUce1G3Jq5J9dQ

Does anyone have information regarding rumored layoffs at Yale?

"We live in an economic system that is unsustainable, unjust, and exploitative. Many of us in academia and the thought industry have known this for decades. Others with great wisdom have known this for centuries. Techies and disrupters think it can... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QY0NDWqzk

Yale online MBA. Can it be any better? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-mania-c-apademia-dahn-shaulis/?published=t

"Ex-Yale soccer coach, Greenwich businessman charged in college admissions scandal" https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Yale-soccer-coach-implicated-in-college-admission-13682117.php

i heard there might be a few dozen people who will be let go this year - any news on 2014 layoffs at Yale?

that's what I heard. Some kind of admin reorg.

I'd say it's unlikely, but yet, you never know - Yale can surprise all of us (sometimes)

all is cool at yale, but at harvard, it's fun...