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Albertus students, faculty planting pillars of faith Thursday.
A day of working in a garden — weeding and putting in kale and asparagus and bounty that will all be given away to food pantries and nonprofits — doesn’t usually begin with an assembly of 120 people and a reading from Paul’s letter to the Philippians in the New Testament, followed by a prayer.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 6, 2023 3:09 pm
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EMERGE's Richard Watkins on Monday: Young people's voices matter.
Aspiring medical assistants, landscapers, and manufacturers now have a clearer path to career success, thanks to a new city grant designed to skill up New Haven’s workforce.
SCSU Prez Joe Bertolino, heading back to home state.
Joe Bertolino plans to step down from his role as president of Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) this summer to take up a new role leading a university in his home state of New Jersey.
Hector Morales (second from left) takes in FBI pitch at Promise fair.
The FBI sounded interesting. Yale’s IT woman made a passionate pitch. The library and the Yale police made their cases. Aspiring forensic scientist Hector Morales heard them out and wondered: Where does his future lie?
Yale graduate teachers and researchers voted overwhelmingly in support of forming a union — marking a local-labor milestone that caps three decades’ worth of organizing for better working conditions on campus.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 20, 2022 10:11 am
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Corie Betha marks the memory map at library workshop.
On the “Collective Memory Map,” most streets have no labels. Someone hand-drew the salt piles by the Mill River. Scantlebury Park could be identified only by the caption “Skateboarding happens here.”
Corie Betha peered at the map, orienting herself by the shapes of the unmarked streets, before uncapping an orange pen to add her own landmark. “1974 – 75 Betha & Henderson Ages 4 & 3 yrs old skating,” she wrote by the Yale ice rink, enshrining her and her sister’s last names alongside names of Yale buildings and longstanding businesses that others had preserved on paper.
Yale saw a $166 million operating surplus and a 0.8 percent return on its endowment last fiscal year, bringing the university’s endowment to a total of $41.4 billion.
One of the country’s leading civil rights leaders has taken a new job in New Haven to train a next generation of faith-inspired advocates for social and economic justice.
Yale and New Haven Promise have teamed up to launch a new scholarship program that will provide up to $20,000 per year for a dozen New Haven public school students who attend one of four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
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Nov 30, 2022 3:31 pm
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Yale Law's Alice Wang and Greg Antill: "Yes" for the union.
One of the few union election signs posted on Yale's downtown campus.
After months of mass public demonstrations in support of a decades-long campus unionization drive, Yale graduate teachers quietly slipped into polling places across downtown to cast their ballots in Local 33’s first election since 2017.
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Nov 17, 2022 12:32 pm
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Gateway's William Brown talks reading, kindness at Mauro-Sheridan.
With a book in hand, Gateway Community College CEO William T. Brown showed Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School second graders the superpower of kindness — and the benefits of good deeds and college educations.
Yale's Peabody Museum, still closed for renovations, set to open in 2024.
A new lab and classroom building that will be nearly as large as Yale’s football stadium — at least in terms of square footage — is in the works for East Rock’s “Science Hill,” while a new hub for Yale’s performing arts is planned for a university-owned downtown corner.
Those are two of Yale’s largest new development projects slated for the years ahead, as announced in a recent building update sent out by one of the local Ivy Leaguer’s top officials.
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Nov 16, 2022 9:41 am
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Barbara Thomas's "Broken Is Mended" panel installed at Grace Hopper College this summer.
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Yale art student Paul Jordan with artist Thomas at Monday's library discussion.
Imagine 10 years from now someone in a Yale dining hall gazes up at a stained-glassed window with jagged graphic banderoles reading “Broken is Mended” and inquires: What in the world does that mean?
Then someone can explain that that’s the very window, the very place where way back in 2016 Yale cafeteria worker Corey Menafee shattered a slave-themed image in a residential college — inspiring a campus wide reckoning with history and race, as well a renaming of that college from an infamous segregationist to a pioneering mathematician.
President Zelenskyy on Friday: "We need you all to come back."
One of many standing ovations for Ukraine's leader.
Amidst active Russian bombings of Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Zoomed into New Haven — to virtually address the next generation of Yale-educated leaders, and to encourage Ukrainian-born students like Tania Tsunik to return home after graduating to help rebuild their war-torn country.
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Oct 24, 2022 4:57 pm
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Local 33: Election cards delivered. Your move, Yale U.
Yale’s aspiring graduate worker union is one step closer to an election — now that it’s submitted “over 3,000” union authorization cards to a federal labor-relations office in Hartford.
The sky opened up as the rally rounded onto Prospect Street, drenching hundreds of union-boosting Yalies and their allies as they marched towards Grove.
The downpour did little to dampen their spirits — or their voices. Though it did temporarily change their chant as they called for a union to represent graduate student-teachers.
What was: “What do we want?” “A union!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” transformed into: “Rain, rain, go away! We want to talk to Salovey!”
Spreading the word: Anne Watkins, Cristher Estrada Perez, Leslie Blatteau at WNHH FM.
Over 100,000 teachers, nurses, custodians, and other public-service workers in Connecticut have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to wipe out tens of thousands of dollars in student debt — if they take action by Oct. 31.
A New Haven-based nonprofit is working hard to get that word out and help people take advantage of the opportunity before the window closes.
Asst. Chief Ettienne at Black and Brown Male Empowerment Conference: "Who knows someone who has died from gun violence?"
Street outreach worker William "Juneboy" Outlaw.
Surround yourself with people who help you thrive — and watch out for those around you who are up to trouble.
Marshawn Moore first learned that lesson three years ago soon after his older brother was shot and killed. The 13-year-old New Havener learned that lesson a second time during a college-campus panel discussion with city cops.
QU VP Zemba: "A strong Quinnipiac is a strong Hamden."
Quinnipiac University made its first official pitch of a “master” redevelopment plan to Hamden zoners — and, in turn, filed the town’s first-ever ask for a multi-property rezoning makeover.
Celebrating SCSU's new College of Health & Human Services building.
Hundreds of alumni, students and community members gathered on Southern Connecticut State University’s (SCSU) campus to tour a brand new building devoted to healthcare and human services studies — and designed to strengthen a suffering sector of the state’s workforce.
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Aug 26, 2022 12:15 pm
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Class of 2026 settle in to new homes. Clockwise from top left: Destiny Rowland, Duke Quermorllue, Autumn Thomas, and Jasmine Uvicchio.
When choosing where to attend college this year, Norwalk native Duke Quermorllue ultimately decided on Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in large part because of his new school’s home city.
As Quermorllue put it on move-in day Thursday: “New Haven is the place to be!”
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Aug 5, 2022 9:03 am
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Crishawn Green, left ,with Lavanda Bryant, Gateway assistant director of financial aid.
This article was submitted by Gateway Community College.
When Crishawn Green started at Gateway Community College (GCC) six years ago, she was raising three children as a single parent while successfully managing work as a licensed practical nurse (L.P.N.).
