At Woodbridge Hall, a rare face-to-face
No matter the millions it may cost, on expansion, the administrators and Yale Corporation members agree: If you’re going to do it, do it right.
The most heralded decision made at this weekend’s Corporation summit was the body’s formal directive Saturday to University administrators, charging them to continue planning for two new residential colleges. But a more significant event may have come on Friday, when Corporation members reviewed the report released by two committees — one examining student life and the other, the University’s academic resources — and discussed how to...
The issue isn't about "making the area more appealing", it is the distance introduced between places when you construct new colleges there. It will now be a mile walk from Pierson to the new colleges. That will completely destroy what the Yale experience is all about. Yale will cease being the most selective university in the country. Unfortunately, the planners aren't students and don't realize what it means to participate in undergraduate (and faculty) life at Yale.