On display in the Yale Center for British Art is a painting of Elihu Yale — the namesake of Yale University — being served by an enslaved child, his neck ensnared by a padlocked collar. The ...

In a sign of the struggles facing institutions of higher education and students alike, Yale University has announced that it will be accepting no new graduate students to its department of art history ...

Enrollment has swelled for Yale University's introductory art history course, which covers "the Renaissance to the present." That's because the school plans to eliminate the popular class after the ...

Yale University is paving the way for New Haven students to attend a historically Black college or university (HBCU) by offering $20,000 per student in the newly founded Pennington Fellowship. “Yale ...

The university also issued a historical study and announced steps to address this legacy, including new support for public education in New Haven, Conn. By Jennifer Schuessler Yale University on ...

Yale's curriculum change to its undergraduate Art History programs has been seen by some as dismissive of the value of American and European art. Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut. Getty ...

In a publicly accessible academic conference held Oct. 28 to Oct. 30, Yale researchers and other experts shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university’s entanglements with slavery, ...

One of his students became a president, another an actress. He also helped the university modernize during the 1970s and ’80s. By Clay Risen Gaddis Smith, a Yale historian who taught generations of ...

On Friday, University President Peter Salovey and Joshua Bekenstein ’80, senior trustee of the Yale Corporation, issued a formal apology and a set of actions in response to Yale’s ties to slavery. The ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Yale University issued an apology Friday for its involvement with chattel slavery in the United States. The statement came from Yale’s President, Peter Salovey, when findings ...

Amid the nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice, Americans appear to be rushing to educate themselves about the history and present reality of systemic racism. On social ...

Jesús Valles, an educator, performer, poet, and playwright, has been named the winner of the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious awards for emerging playwrights, ...