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How Anti-DEI Efforts Are Constraining Yale’s Cultural Centers

Katerina MattaDecember 1, 2025January 12, 2026

In 424 colleges across 47 states—including over half of the Ivy Leagues—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have been revised, reduced, and called into question over the past two years. From the renaming of affinity spaces to the removal of resources and faculty entirely, these changes largely result from the anti-DEI pressure of the Trump administration, not official legislation. Although Yale continues to evade Trump’s crosshairs, especially compared to peer institutions like Columbia or Harvard, the deteriorating national landscape leaves student leaders concerned for the futures of the affinity spaces and cultural centers that they hold dear.

Fighting for the Future: In Defense of Higher Education

Vivian QuintNovember 30, 2025January 12, 2026

On May 22, 2025, President Maurie McInnis called on every student, faculty, and alumni to help Yale’s administration secure their institution’s future. In light of the upcoming House of Representatives vote on President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, President McInnis explicitly stated that Yalies must do everything in their power to oppose this bill, since it “presents a greater threat to Yale than any other bill in memory.”

Disaffiliation at Yale: Rethinking Community Beyond Greek Life

Kiran YehApril 25, 2025April 20, 2025

At Yale, four groups have severed ties with their national organizations, a move driven, in part, to rethink the rigid structures of Greek life rather than simply reproduce them.

Rising US-Chinese Tensions Chill Academic Collaboration at Yale and Beyond

Aiwen DesaiApril 20, 2022

There is no doubt that deep ties exist between Yale and its Chinese students, alumni, and peer institutions. But these bonds exist in a world of geopolitical maneuvering.

Waiting for a Haven: Homelessness in Yale’s Backyard

Thomas BirminghamDecember 9, 2021December 10, 2021

Inside Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s Drop-In and Resource Center, Alvin* was sitting at a small, tucked-away table in front of a booth where a young woman was cheerily handing out coffee. He had laid out a black and gray camouflage…

More Than a Job

Ethan DoddNovember 2, 2021May 25, 2022

The Rust Belt is coming to grips with the changing world of work. Automation, international competition, and industry consolidation eat away at steel and coal production. As manufacturing jobs lose ground to white-collar or low-wage service work, a new work ethic is developing and threatening to replace the work culture that sustained a blue-collar middle class. Economic security now demands a college education, but many resist what seems foreign to blue-collar values based on manual labor. From joining gangs to opting out of work entirely, resistance to the cultural transformation of the post-industrial economy takes on many forms, most of which hinder the transmission of a work ethic from parent to child. Now, people in the Rust Belt are not just worried about the future of work; they are uncertain if there will even be one.

Agnes Budzyn (Yale Club Finance Committee), ConsenSys Managing Director for the Office of the CEO

Eric WallachAugust 4, 2019

“It’s new, it’s emerging, it’s changing, and because of that, there’s so much opportunity to not only create and grow in the space, but actually to strategize, to influence its future development, and to become an expert in a very short period of time.”

Antonio Simeone (Financial Markets Certificate ’14), Co-Founder and Algorithmic Trader at Euklid

Eric WallachJuly 21, 2019July 21, 2019

“If you give legal value to information that is registered immutably on the blockchain, then you don’t need to pay $50 thousand every year just to have another company reconciling numbers.”