As processional music played, university leaders and faculty entered the graduation hall, dressed in the regalia that signified their academic achievements and fields of study. Then came the seven ...
A Los Angeles-based school leadership development group will move to Yale University next year through a $100 million gift to create a new master’s degree program at the prestigious Yale School of ...
Yale University is giving an honorary degree to the first known Black person to study at the institution, the New Haven Register reported. Rev. James W.C. Pennington, who escaped slavery to seek ...
The decades-long push by students, alumni and members of the Yale Divinity School to grant the late Reverend James W.C. Pennington a degree has finally come to fruition. On Monday morning, University ...
Yale University granted honorary degrees to “individuals whose achievements in their field have benefited the common good.” The legendary dancer and performer Debbie Allen, the host of “Finding Your ...
Karmen Englert was in college in South Dakota when, in 2008, her mother died of a drug overdose. “I left, took off like a nomad, started selling drugs, and got in a lot of trouble,” she said. Now ...
NEW HAVEN — After 186 years, a man who escaped slavery to seek education and became the first known Black person to study at Yale University is getting his degree. The university’s board of trustees ...