Yale College

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Harkness Tower at Yale

From 1718 to 1887, Yale College was the name of the college that is now called Yale University . Today it is the name of the undergraduate programs department at Yale and consists of 12 colleges .

history

Yale University was founded in 1701 as a Collegiate School . Their name was changed to Yale College in 1718 in gratitude to a donor, Elihu Yale . In 1887, when the college continued to grow under the presidency of Timothy Dwight V , Yale College was renamed Yale University . Thereafter, Yale College was the name of the university's undergraduate studies department.

The current residential college system was established in 1933 and was made possible by a donation from Yale graduate Edward S. Harkness , who admired the college systems at Oxford University and Cambridge University . Each college has a carefully built support infrastructure for students, with a dean, a master, allied professors and resident fellow students.

In June 2008, Yale announced plans to build two new boarding schools, bringing the total to fourteen. The colleges would allow for about 15% more undergraduates , up to a total of about 6,000. Scheduled completion is scheduled for 2013 and they are said to be north of Grove Street Cemetery.

Residential Colleges

The residential colleges are named after important people or places in university history or after well-known graduates; they are deliberately not named after donors.

Hopper College
  1. Berkeley College - in honor of Rt. Rev. George Berkeley (1685–1753), an early sponsor of Yale.
  2. Branford College - named after Branford, Connecticut , where Yale was briefly.
  3. Hopper College - originally named after Vice President and Defender of Slavery John C. Calhoun , the college has been named after computer pioneer Grace Hopper since 2017 .
  4. Davenport College - named after Rev. John Davenport , the founder of New Haven. Often abbreviated as "D'port".
  5. Ezra Stiles College - named after Rev. Ezra Stiles , a former principal of Yale. The buildings were designed by Eero Saarinen .
  6. Jonathan Edwards College - named after the theologian, Yale graduate and Princeton University co-founder Jonathan Edwards . Often abbreviated to “JE”. As the oldest of the residential colleges, JE is the only college with an independent endowment, the Jonathan Edwards Trust.
  7. Morse College - named after Samuel Morse , the inventor of the Morse apparatus. Also designed by Eero Saarinen .
  8. Pierson College - named after Yale's first principal, Abraham Pierson .
  9. Saybrook College - named after Old Saybrook , the city where Yale was founded.
  10. Silliman College - named after the natural scientist and Yale professor Benjamin Silliman . About half of its buildings were originally part of the Sheffield Scientific School .
  11. Timothy Dwight College - named for the two university presidents from Yale who bore that name, Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V . Usually abbreviated as "TD", this is the smallest college.
  12. Trumbull College - named after Jonathan Trumbull senior , a Connecticut governor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yale to Establish Two New Residential Colleges ( Memento June 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Lewin, Tamar, "Yale to Expand Undergraduate Enrollment by 15 Percent," New York Times , June 8, 2008

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