The Hartford Courant reports on the campaign to save Connie Allen’s job:

Jennifer Pena, a senior from Puerto Rico, has had Nobel Prize-winning professors at Yale but few took the time Allen did to explain tough concepts and offer career advice, she said. “If it wasn’t for her I would have never gone to medical school,” she said. “I’ve taken so many science classes at
Yale – she’s the best professor I’ve had here.”

Several of Allen’s supporters met with Andrew Hamilton, deputy provost for science and technology, Wednesday. Hamilton didn’t dispute Allen’s record as a teacher and mentor, but he told the students Yale requires outstanding scholarship for teachers to be considered tenure-track or “ladder” material. Hamilton did not return phone calls but confirmed the students’ account in
an e-mail, adding: “I explained to them that Yale does not appoint its Ladder faculty based on student demands.”

Phoebe offers a first-hand account of the meeting with Andrew Hamilton.