Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven,Connecticut. Founded in 1701,Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public collegiate and research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School,NUS is the oldest autonomous university in Singapore. It offers degree programmes in disciplines at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels,including in the sciences,medicine and dentistry,design and environment,law,arts and social sciences,engineering,business,computing,and music.
Richard Halleck Brodhead is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina from 2004 to 2017.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group,a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson. Schwarzman was briefly chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.
Mary Ellen Miller is an American art historian and academician specializing in Mesoamerica and the Maya.
Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University,opened in 1934. The eighth of Yale's 14 residential colleges,it was named in honor of Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753),dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne,in recognition of the assistance in land and books that he gave to Yale in the 18th century. Built on the site of a group of buildings known from the 1890s until 1933 as the Berkeley Oval,the college was renovated in 1998. It is distinct for having two courtyards connected by an underground tunnel.
Grace Hopper College is a residential college of Yale University,opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. It was originally named Calhoun College after US Vice President John C. Calhoun,but renamed in 2017 in honor of computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. The building was designed by John Russell Pope.
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University,a private research university in New Haven,Connecticut. The school awards the Master of Business Administration (MBA),MBA for Executives (EMBA),Master of Advanced Management (MAM),Master's Degree in Systemic Risk (SR),Master's Degree in Global Business &Society (GBS),Master's Degree in Asset Management (AM),and Ph.D. degrees,as well as joint degrees with nine other graduate programs at Yale University.
Jonathan Levin is an American economist at Stanford University who succeeded Garth Saloner as the dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business on September 1,2016. He also has an appointment as the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics at Stanford. He had been Chair of the Economics Department. He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal. Since 2021,he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Graduate student employee unionization,or academic student employee unionization,refers to labor unions that represent students who are employed by their college or university to teach classes,conduct research and perform clerical duties. As of 2014,there were at least 33 US graduate employee unions,18 unrecognized unions in the United States,and 23 graduate employee unions in Canada. By 2019,it is estimated that there were 83,050 unionized student employees in certified bargaining units in the United States. As of 2023,there were at least 156 US graduate student employee unions and 23 graduate student employee unions in Canada.
Gies College of Business is the business school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,a public research university in Champaign,Illinois. The college offers undergraduate program,masters programs,and a PhD program. The college and its Department of Accountancy are separately accredited by AACSB International.
Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and current president of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's provost,dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,and dean of Yale College. Salovey is one of the early pioneers in emotional intelligence.
The Yale Sustainable Food Program (YSFP) serves as a hub for the study of topics in sustainable food and agriculture at Yale University. Founded as the Yale Sustainable Food Project in 2001,the YSFP runs a campus teaching farm,supports a range of different curricular and extra-curricular study opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students,and provides fellowships,awards,and grants for international and professional experience for Yale students.
Coursera Inc. is a U.S.-based massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses,certifications,and degrees in a variety of subjects. In 2023 more than 275+ universities and companies offer more than 4,000 courses through Coursera.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore,it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%,it is among the most selective institutions in the world. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven,Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history,making Yale the first American Ivy League school to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Pericles Lewis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of comparative literature at Yale University and the Dean of Yale College.
Schwarzman Scholars,founded by American financier and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman,is a one-year fully-funded master's degree leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing,China. The program selects 100 - 200 Scholars per year based on their leadership ability,academic achievement,and commitment to advancing mutual cultural understanding and global progress. Selected scholars pursue a one-year master's degree in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University,residing at Schwarzman College.
Saw Swee Hock HFLSE was a Singaporean leading expert in statistics,population,and economics,and was a noted philanthropist.
The Yenching Academy is a postgraduate college of Peking University,located in Beijing,China. It hosts the Yenching Scholarship,a fully funded prestigious global scholarship program,designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." The academy offers Yenching Scholars,selected annually from around the world,with full scholarships for one or two years of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University.
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is a college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),located in Cambridge,Massachusetts,United States. Announced in 2018 to address the growing applications of computing technology,the college is an Institute-wide academic unit that works alongside MIT's five Schools of Architecture and Planning,Engineering,Humanities,Arts,and Social Sciences,Science,and Management. The college emphasizes artificial intelligence research,interdisciplinary applications of computing,and social and ethical responsibilities of computing. It aims to be an interdisciplinary hub for work in artificial intelligence,computer science,data science,and related fields. Its creation was the first significant change to MIT's academic structure since the early 1950s.
