the new academic year starting September 2024. Undergraduate students "overwhelmingly" voted in a December referendum to call for divestment.
In July 2025 Russian authorities declared Yale University to be an “undesirable” organization, banning its activities in the country. According to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, the institution’s activities are aimed at “violating the territorial integrity of Russia” and “destabilizing the socio-economic and political situation”.
==== Alumni in politics ====
The Boston Globe wrote in 2002 that "if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale". Yale alumni were represented on the Democratic or Republican ticket in every U.S. presidential election between 1972 and 2004. Yale-educated presidents since the end of the Vietnam War include Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, and major-party nominees include Hillary Clinton (2016), John Kerry (2004), Joseph Lieberman …
