GESO unveils new platform
December 7, 2006
By Thomas Kaplan
Improving the academic job market for young scholars is the focus of the new agenda passed by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization on Wednesday night, the organization’s first new platform since 2003....

Grad schools face greater troubles than time
October 18, 2006
By Evan Matthew Cobb
Graduate School Dean Jon Butler has called on all departments to conduct reviews of their Ph.D. programs as part of the “2-4 Project.” The review is serious business — so serious, in fact, that last week the dean invited Ph.D. students to spend between 10 and 15 whole minutes on an anonymous electronic survey, as “no one at Yale is better placed … to offer candid and constructive feedback about our academic programs.”...

Yale investment vehicle sells private prison stock
May 19, 2006
By Ross Goldberg and Jessica Marsden
Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund that invests a portion of Yale's endowment, has sold all of its stock in a private prison company that has been criticized for alleged human rights abuses, though such criticisms have not been cited as a factor......

NYU grad student rally ends in arrests
April 29, 2006
By Jessica Marsden
Graduate Employees and Students Organization Chair Melissa Mason GRD '08 was arrested with more than 50 other protesters when they blocked a street in front of New York University, in an act of civil disobedience in support of NYU's graduate student......