Yale Daily News

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Increased enrollment could bolster sciences

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, November 30, 2007

Many of Yale’s science departments could witness a rise in the number of majors and increased course offerings for non-majors if the University goes ahead with a proposal for the addition of two new residential colleges.

But for some departments these benefits would likely come at the expense of faculty shortages and a strain on lab spaces unless the University allocates more resources, faculty members said.

The expansion would not benefit all departments equally. While some smaller majors currently facing attrition in student enrollment would get a greater boost from the...

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