YU News

New York, NY, May 1, 2003 -- For their most recent academic study, Associate Professor David Strug and Professor Susan Mason of Wurzweiler School of Social Work chose a subject close to home: the Hispanic immigrant community of Washington Heights, the northern Manhattan neighborhood. Since the ...

New York, NY, May 1, 2003 -- The Sy Syms School of Business became the first Yeshiva University undergraduate college to offer a master’s degree. “The accounting profession has changed significantly in the last decade or so,” said Dr. Charles J. Snow, dean of Sy Syms School of Business. “New ...

New York, NY, May 1, 2003 -- A small green face with bulging white eyes peers around the door of Prof. Daniel Pollack’s office. It is a hand puppet of Sesame Street’s Kermit the Frog, brought to life by Prof. Pollack whenever students’ or faculty members’ young children pass his office in Belfer ...

New York, NY, Aug 22, 2003 -- Yeshiva University (YU) has been consistently making strides in student quality, academic excellence, and diversity of programs and research over the past decade. YU is now ranked along with Columbia and NYU as the top universities in the metropolitan area. YU is…

 Apr 1, 2003 -- In 1958, when Harvey Schlossberg became a New York City police officer, he was one of a handful on the force with a college degree. Thirteen years later, with his doctoral degree from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, he became the only active police officer in the ...

Dec 13, 2002 -- As he prepares to depart for the presidency of Yeshiva University, Hillel's international director Richard Joel is being lauded by current and former campus Hillel directors and observers of the Jewish college organization, who say he revitalized a once-struggling institution and ...

Dec 13, 2002 -- Like a New York society debutante, Richard Joel premiered Sunday night as president-elect of Yeshiva University during the school's annual black-tie fundraiser at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in midtown Manhattan. Joel, who developed a reputation as a master fundraiser and…

Dec 9, 2002 -- For the first time in its nearly 90 years as a university, Yeshiva University has named a president who is not a rabbi. Richard M. Joel, president of Hillel, an organization that provides services for Jewish students on college campuses worldwide, was named president of Yeshiva on ...

Dec 8, 2002 -- Students from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life gathered one night during the recent General Assembly of the Jewish federation system and confronted Richard Joel. The students peppered Joel, Hillel’s president and international director, with criticism that events during…

Dec 6, 2002 -- Yeshiva University has chosen the president of Hillel, the organization for Jewish college students, to be its president starting next June. Richard M. Joel will be the first non-rabbi in the post. Under a new arrangement, Joel will be chief executive officer of the school's ...