-Statement of Solidarity & Support- from Yale’s Indigenous Graduate Network & Native American Law Students Association In recent days, society has seen a surge of activism across the United States in support of social justice, particularly in response to enduring racist and sexist inequities on university campuses. At Yale University and beyond, many of these…
When We Were Children of Color
by Jessica Yuan, YC’15 When I was in elementary school, I thought it was normal when other kids would pull their eyes into slits at me. I did it back because I thought it was a game, like a high five or secret friendship handshake. There was also the one where you pulled your eyelids…
Lifting the Burden to Educate
by Treston Codrington At a time when students around the nation are confronting the negligence of their school administrators and calling for their resignation, Yale administrators like Timothy Dwight (TD) Head of College Mary Lui and Dean Sarah Mahurin have decided to take action. During last Saturday’s brunch, TD held an open forum for students to…
NextYale Demands for the Administration
Dear President Peter Salovey, Dean Jonathan Holloway, and senior members of the Yale administration: Next Yale, an alliance of Yale students of color and our allies, have come together to demand that Peter Salovey and the Yale administration implement immediate and lasting policies that will reduce the intolerable racism that students of color experience on…
Open Letter of Support from Yale Faculty
See the signatories here To the Yale Community: Recent on-campus events and related discussions between students and administrators highlight the longstanding and institutionalized inequalities that exist at our university. This history and its complex legacies will only be dispelled by critique, social commitment, and hard work at many levels of policy and practice. Calls for…