Campus Clips

A faculty committee appointed by provost Scott Strobel to develop a statement on the principles of academic freedom will be chaired by political science professor Greg Huber. It’s expected to issue its statement by the end of the fall semester. Yale’s FAS and SEAS faculty senate submitted a report to the administration in late fall asking for stronger protections in the faculty handbook­—a request echoed by Yale’s local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), revived in 2024—because of concern about “escalating attacks on academic freedom across higher education.”

Yale College extended offers of admission to 2,328 students for the Class of 2030, including 779 who were admitted via early action and 118 admitted through the QuestBridge program. In all, 54,919 people applied this year, the second-largest pool in Yale history. The admitted students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, two US territories, and 75 countries.  

The US defense department announced in February that it was canceling its Senior Service College Fellowships at 22 universities and think tanks, including Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. “For too long, the Ivy League and similar institutions have been subjecting our warriors to woke indoctrination,” secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X. The program allows military officers to take graduate-level courses to further their professional development; Yale has three such fellowship positions that will be eliminated.

E-scooters, e-bikes, e-skateboards, and other battery-powered micromobility devices were banned from the interiors of campus buildings in April. The university enacted the new policy after an e-scooter battery caught fire in a robotics lab at 17 Hillhouse on March 5, resulting in extensive damage. Such devices are still permitted on campus but must be stored outdoors or off-campus. 

Author Min Jin Lee ’90 will address 2026 Yale College graduates on May 17 as Class Day speaker. Lee is best known for her 2017 novel Pachinko, a story of Korean immigrants in Japan; it was a finalist for the National Book Award and was adapted into a television series. Lee, who was a history major at Yale, emigrated from South Korea to New York when she was seven. 

Want an incentive to stop scrolling? Or at least do some good while you’re doing it? Three Yale students have created an app called Scroll Toll that lets users set screen-time limits on their phones; they can program the app to send a donation to a charity if they exceed the limit. Launched in November, the app is available on Apple’s app store.