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Corporation directs administrators to plan for two new residential colleges 2.23.08
At its meeting Saturday morning, the Corporation directed administrators to prepare two new studies detailing the estimated cost of the expansion as well as a plan for how Yale officials could solicit donations to help pay for it. Those instructions came a day after the University’s highest governing body was presented with a report by two committees charged with examining the consequences of expansion on academics and student life. The Corporation will not take a formal vote on the colleges until those two studies have been completed and thoroughly examined by its members, Roland Betts ’68, the senior fellow of the Corporation, said. But Betts, in his first public comments on the expansion plan, followed University President Richard Levin’s endorsement of expansion on Monday with a ringing endorsement of his own. “If you’re ever going to expand, this is the right time to do it,” Betts said. “You have an unbelievably precious resource here called the Yale education, and you sort of have a duty to provide it to as many people as you possibly can.”
