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YALE UNIVERSITY



• Yale University is a private Ivy League researchuniversity located in New Haven, Connecticut. It iswidely considered to be one of the most prestigiousand selective universities in the world.

• Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, theuniversity is the third-oldest institution of highereducation in the United States. Originally charteredas the "Collegiate School", the institution traces itsroots to 17th-century clergymen who sought toestablish a college to train clergy and politicalleaders for the colony. In 1718, the College wasrenamed "Yale College" to honor a gift from ElihuYale, a governor of the British East India Company.In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciencesbecame the first U.S. institution to award the

Ph.D.Yale became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. YaleCollege was transformed, beginning in the 1930s,through the establishment of residential colleges: 12now exist and two more are planned.



Yale employs over 1,100 faculty to teach and advise about 5,300undergraduate and 6,100 graduate and professional students. Almost all

tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of whichare offered annually. The University's assets include an endowment valued at$20.80 billion as of 2013, the second-largest of any academic institution in theworld. Yale's system of more than two dozen libraries holds 12.5 millionvolumes. 49 Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the University as

students, faculty, and staff. Yale has nurtured many notable alumni, includingfive U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreignheads of state. Yale Law School is the most selective law school in thecountry.

Yale students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAADivision I Ivy League. The oldest intercollegiate athletic event in the UnitedStates is the Yale-Harvard regatta.



ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATIONLEADERSHIP

• The President and Fellows of Yale College, also known as the Yale Corporation, is thegoverning board of the University.

• Yale's president Richard C. Levin is one of the highest paid university presidents in theUnited States with a 2008 salary of $1.5 million.

• The Yale Provost's Office has launched several women into prominent universitypresidencies. In 1977 Hanna Holborn Gray was appointed acting President of Yale from thisposition, and went on to become President of the University of Chicago, the first woman to befull president of a major university. In 1994 Yale Provost Judith Rodin became the first femalepresident of an Ivy League institution at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2002 Provost Alison Richard became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In 2004, ProvostSusan Hockfield became the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2007Deputy Provost Kim Bottomly was named President of Wellesley College. In 2003, the Deanof the Divinity School, Rebecca Chopp, was appointed president of Colgate University andnow heads Swarthmore College.

• In 2008 Provost Andrew Hamilton was confirmed to be the Vice Chancellor of the Universityof Oxford.Former Dean of Yale College Richard H. Brodhead serves as the President of DukeUniversity.



STAFF AND LABOR UNIONS• Much of Yale University's staff, including most maintenance staff, dining hall employees,

and administrative staff, are unionized. Clerical and technical employees are representedby Local 34 of Unite Here and service and maintenance workers by Local 35 of the sameinternational. Together with the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO),an unrecognized union of graduate employees, Locals 34 and 35 make up the Federation ofHospital and University Employees. Also included in FHUE are the dietary workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital, who are members of 1199 SEIU. In addition to these unions, officersof the Yale University Police Department are members of the Yale Police Benevolent

Association, which affiliated in 2005 with the Connecticut Organization for Public SafetyEmployees.]Finally, Yale security officers voted to join the International Union of Security,Police and Fire Professionals of America in fall 2010 after the National Labor RelationsBoard ruled they could not join AFSCME; the Yale administration contested the election .

• Yale has a history of difficult and prolonged labor negotiations, often culminating instrikes.There have been at least eight strikes since 1968, and The New York Times wrotethat Yale has a reputation as having the worst record of labor tension of any university inthe U.S. Yale's unusually large endowment exacerbates the tension over wages. Moreover,Yale has been accused of failing to treat workers with respect. In a 2003 strike, however,the university claimed that more union employees were working than striking. ProfessorDavid Graeber was 'retired' after he came to the defense of a student who was involved incampus labor issues.



CAMPUS

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Yale's central campus in downtown New Haven covers 260 acres (1.1 km2). Anadditional 500 acres (2.0 km2) includes the Yale golf course and naturepreserves in rural Connecticut and Horse Island.

• Yale is noted for its largely Collegiate Gothic campus as well as for several iconicmodern buildings commonly discussed in architectural history survey courses:

Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery and Center for British Art, Eero Saarinen's IngallsRink and Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, and Paul Rudolph's Art & ArchitectureBuilding. Yale also owns and has restored many noteworthy 19th-centurymansions along Hillhouse Avenue, which was considered the most beautifulstreet in America by Charles Dickens when he visited the United States in the1840s.

• Many of Yale's buildings were constructed in the Collegiate Gothic architecturestyle from 1917 to 1931, financed largely by Edward S. Harkness.





• The oldest building on campus, Connecticut Hall (built in 1750), is in theGeorgian style. Georgian-style buildings erected from 1929 to 1933 includeTimothy Dwight College, Pierson College, and Davenport College, except thelatter's east, York Street façade, which was constructed in the Gothic style.

• The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, designed by GordonBunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, is one of the largest buildings inthe world reserved exclusively for the preservation of rare books andmanuscripts. It is located near the center of the University in Hewitt

Quadrangle, which is now more commonly referred to as "Beinecke Plaza".• The library's six-story above-ground tower of book stacks is surrounded by a

windowless rectangular building with walls made of translucent Vermontmarble, which transmit subdued lighting to the interior and provide protectionfrom direct light, while glowing from within after dark.

Interior of Beinecke Library

• The sculptures in the sunken courtyard by Isamu Noguchi are said torepresent time (the pyramid), the sun (the circle), and chance (the cube).





CAMPUS SAFETY

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In addition to the Yale University Police Department, founded in 1894, a variety of safetyservices are available including blue phones, a safety escort, and a shuttle service.[88]

• In the 1970s and 1980s, poverty and violent crime rose in New Haven, dampening Yale'sstudent and faculty recruiting efforts.Between 1990 and 2006, New Haven's crime rate fellby half, helped by a community policing strategy by the New Haven police and Yale'scampus became the safest among the Ivy League and other peer schools. Nonetheless,

across the board, the city of New Haven has retained the highest levels of crime of any IvyLeague city for more than a decade.

• Between 2002 and 2004, Yale reported 14 violent crimes (homicide, aggravated assault, orsex offenses); in comparison, Harvard reported 83 such incidents, Princeton 24, andStanford 54. The incidence of nonviolent crime (burglary, arson, and motor vehicle theft)was also lower than most of its peer schools.

• In 2004 a national non-profit watchdog group called Security on Campus filed a complaintwith the U.S. Department of Education, accusing Yale of under -reporting rape and sexualassaults.





ACADEMICS



ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION

There are currently 15 academic schools whichprovide a great variety of study programs. Theuniversity comprises three major academic

components: Yale College (the undergraduateprogram), the Graduate School of Arts andSciences, and the professional schools.



• Yale College

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

• Professional Schools

• School of Architecture

• School of Art

• Divinity School

• School of Drama

• School of Engineering & Applied Science

• School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

• Law School

• School of Management

• School of Medicine

• School of Music

• School of Nursing

• School of Public Health

• Institute of Sacred Music



ADMISSIONS

• For the Class of 2017, Yale accepted 1,991 students out of a record 29,610 totalapplications, hitting a record-low acceptance rate of 6.7%.

• Through its program of need-based financial aid, Yale commits to meet the fulldemonstrated financial need of all applicants. Most financial aid is in the form ofgrants and scholarships that do not need to be paid back to the university, and

the average need-based aid grant for the Class of 2016 was $41,320. Over 10%of students in Yale College are expected to have $0 parental contribution.

• Half of all Yale undergraduates are women, more than 30% are minorities, and8% are international students. Fifty-five percent attended public schools and45% attended private, religious, or international schools.In addition, Yale College

admits a small group of non-traditional students each year, through the EliWhitney Students Program.





COLLECTIONS

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Yale University Library, which holds over 12 million volumes, is the second-largest university collection in the United States. The main library, SterlingMemorial Library, contains about 4 million volumes, and other holdings aredispersed at subject libraries.

• Yale's museum collections are also of international stature. The Yale University

Art Gallery is the country's first university-affiliated art museum. It contains morethan 180,000 works, including old masters and important collections of modernart, in the Swartout and Kahn buildings. The latter, Louis Kahn's first large -scale

American work (1953), was renovated and reopened in December 2006. TheYale Center for British Art, the largest collection of British art outside of the UK,

grew from a gift of Paul Mellon and is housed in another Kahn-designedbuilding.





CAMPUS LIFE

Yale is a medium-sized research university, most of whose students are in the

graduate and professional schools. Undergraduates, or Yale College students,come from a variety of ethnic, national, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Of the2010 –2011 freshman class, 10% are non-U.S. citizens, while 54% went to publichigh schools.Yale is also an open campus for the gay community. Its active LGBTcommunity first received wide publicity in the late 1980s, when Yale obtained a

reputation as the "gay Ivy", due largely to a 1987 Wall Street Journal article writtenby Julie V. Iovine, an alumna and the spouse of a Yale faculty member. During thesame year, the University hosted a national conference on gay and lesbian studiesand established the Lesbian and Gay Studies Center.The slogan "One in Four,Maybe More" was coined by the campus gay community. While the community inthe 1980s and early 1990s was very activist, today most LGBT events havebecome part of the general campus social scene.For example, the annual LGBTCo-op Dance attracts straight as well as gay students.



RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES• Yale has a system of 12 residential colleges, instituted in 1933 through a grant by Yale graduate

Edward S. Harkness, who admired the col lege systems at Oxford and Cambridge. Each college

has a dean, master, affiliated faculty, and resident fellows. Each college also features distinctivearchitecture, courtyards, a commons room, meeting rooms/classrooms, and a dining hall; inaddition, some have chapels, libraries, squash courts, pool tables, short order dining counters,cafes, or darkrooms. Each college at Yale offers its own seminars, social events, and Master'sTeas, and most of them are open to students from other residential colleges. However, Yaleremains a unitary university, while Oxford and Cambridge colleges are self -governed charitableinstitutions in their own right.

• All of Yale's 2,000 undergraduate courses are open to members of any college.

• The dominant architecture of the residential colleges is Neo-Gothic, in line with the characteristicarchitecture of the university. Several colleges have other period architecture, such as Georgianand Federal, and the two most recent, (Morse and Ezra Stiles), have modernist concrete exteriors.

• Students are assigned to a residential college in their freshman year. Only two residential colleges(Silliman and Timothy Dwight) house freshmen. The majority of on-campus freshmen live on the"Old Campus", an extensive quadrangle formed by older buildings. Each residential college has itsown dining hall, but students are permitted to eat in any residential college dining hall or the largedining facility called "Commons".

• Residential colleges are named for important figures or places in university history or notablealumni.



• In 1998, Yale launched a series of extensive renovations to the olderresidential buildings, which in many decades of existence had seen only

routine maintenance and incremental improvements to plumbing, heating, andelectrical and network wiring. Many of these renovations have now beencompleted, and among other improvements, renovated colleges feature newlybuilt basement facilities including snack bars called "butteries," game rooms,theaters, athletic facilities, fine arts studios, and music practice rooms.

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In June 2008, President Levin announced that the Yale Corporation hadauthorized the construction of two new residential colleges, scheduled toopen in 2013. The additional colleges, to be built in the northern part of thecampus, will allow for expanded admission and a reduction of crowding in theexisting residential colleges.[132] Designs have been released, and somepublic controversy has surfaced over Yale's decision to demolish a number ofhistoric buildings on the site, including a recently constructed library, in orderto clear it for the $600 million new structures.



STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

The university hosts a variety of student journals, magazines, and newspapers.The latter categories include the Yale Daily News, which was first published in1878, the weekly Yale Herald, published since 1986, and The Yale Record, whichwas established in 1872 and is America's oldest college humor magazine. DwightHall, an independent, non-profit community service organization, oversees more

than 2,000 Yale undergraduates working on more than 70 community serviceinitiatives in New Haven. The Yale College Council runs several agencies thatoversee campus wide activities and student services. The Yale Dramatic

Association and Bulldog Productions cater to the theater and film communities,respectively. In addition, the Yale Drama Coalition serves to coordinate betweenand provide resources for the various Sudler Fund sponsored theater productionswhich run each weekend. WYBC Yale Radio is the campus's radio station, ownedand operated by students. While students used to broadcast on AM & FMfrequencies, they now have an Internet-only stream.



• The Yale College Council (YCC) serves as the campus's undergraduate studentgovernment. All registered student organizations are regulated and funded by a subsidiaryorganization of the YCC, known as the Undergraduate Organizations Committee (UOC).

• The Yale Political Union is advised by alumni political leaders such as John Kerry and

George Pataki. The Yale International Relations Association functions as the umbrellaorganization for the top-ranked Model UN team.

• The campus also includes several fraternities and sororities. The campus features at least18 a cappella groups, the most famous of which is The Whiffenpoofs, who are unusualamong college singing groups in being made up solely of senior men.

• Yale's secret societies include Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, Book andSnake, Elihu, Berzelius, St. Elmo, Manuscript, and Mace and Chain. The two oldestexisting honor societies are the Aurelian (1910) and the Torch Honor Society (1916 ).

• The Elizabethan Club, a social club, has a membership of undergraduates, graduates,faculty and staff with literary or artistic interests. Membership is by invitation. Membersand their guests may enter the "Lizzie's" premises for conversation and tea. The club

owns first editions of a Shakespeare Folio, several Shakespeare Quartos, a first edition ofMilton's Paradise Lost, among other important literary texts.



TRADITIONS

Yale seniors at graduation smash clay pipes underfoot tosymbolize passage from their "bright college years".("BrightCollege Years," the University's alma mater, was penned in 1881by Henry Durand, Class of 1881, to the tune of Die Wacht amRhein.) Yale's student tour guides tell visitors that studentsconsider it good luck to rub the toe of the statue of TheodoreDwight Woolsey on Old Campus. Actual students rarely do so. Inthe second half of the twentieth century Bladderball, a campus-wide game played with a large inflatable ball, became a popular

tradition but was banned by administration due to safety concerns.In spite of administration opposition, students revived the game in2009 and 2011, but its future remains uncertain.







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