Cyber Yale: you and me and everyone we know
Soon after A. Bartlett Giamatti was made Yale’s president in 1978, a reporter from the New Haven Register called him.
The reporter wanted to know if Giamatti would consider for Yale something similar to the Harvard Extension School, which had been founded in 1910 to educate those in the Boston community who wanted to attend college but couldn’t because they needed to work.
Giamatti, without mincing words, said Yale didn’t want to compete with the University of New Haven.
Michael Shinagel, who was the young dean of Harvard’s Extension School at the time, told the...
