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This moment has finally come : A Commencement unlike any other

By Susan Gonzalez May 24, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Yale College graduates gathered on Old Campus on Saturday. (Photos by Dan Renzetti) Jubilant exclamations of “We did it!” echoed across Old Campus, along pathways, and through courtyards around Yale as members of the Class of 2021 fist-bumped and high-fived after being pronounced Yale graduates. It’s a familiar triumphant refrain, and for these students who adapted to new ways of learning and living necessitated by the pandemic the chance to exult seemed especially hard-won. “Graduating is a great accomplishment, one of the most important of your life,” Dean Marvin Chun told members of the Yale College Class of 2021, who sat masked and physically distanced in one of three separate Old Campus ceremonies in their honor on Saturday. “If you think back to when you first arrived on campus, no one could have imagined that you’d live

Q&A with Ben Polak: The former provost returns to teaching

Q&A with Ben Polak: The former provost returns to teaching Monday, December 14, 2020 Ben Polak, the William C. Brainard Professor of Economics, stepped down as Provost in February 2020 after serving seven years in the position. He has rejoined his faculty peers in the department resuming his teaching. We asked Professor Polak what his time was like as Provost and how his time has been back in front of the class (albeit virtual this term).   As an economist, what strengths do you feel you brought to the provost position? Economists, me included, bring strengths but also weaknesses to administration.  On the strength side, administrators have to make decisions. Provosts have, in particular, to allocate scarce resources.  Economists know how to frame those problems, how to use data, and how to think through tradeoffs.  That helped. On the weakness side, the typical economist  – certainly this typical economist – is a little less good at the human-interaction side of manage

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