Corporation endorses colleges, orders expansion studies 2.25.08
The Yale Corporation declared its support this weekend for building two new residential colleges, directing administrators to move forward with planning for the University’s largest expansion in decades. At their meeting on Saturday, members of the Corporation, Yale’s highest governing body, commissioned two additional studies in preparation for a final vote on the expansion proposal later this year. University administrators will now devise an estimated budget for the two new colleges — which will likely be the two most expensive residence halls ever constructed in American history — as well as a plan to solicit donations to help pay for them. And for the first time, the Corporation acknowledged what students and faculty for months have assumed: The members of the University’s highest governing body are fully in favor of expansion.
