Some fraction of Yale’s more than 150,000 living alumni will vote over the next two months to place a fellow graduate on the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.
The selection of an architect was almost entirely based on discussions among members of the Yale Corporation, University President Richard Levin said Wednesday.
The Yale Corporation this weekend authorized the addition of two new residential colleges, officially setting into motion the University's largest expansion since co-education four decades ago. Yale College will grow by about 15 percent as part of the expansion, which University President Richard Levin announced in an e-mail message to the community on Saturday morning....
A goal few knew Levin set forth 10 years ago.
In a vote that has become little more than a formality, the Yale Corporation this weekend is expected to approve the addition of two new residential colleges.
Planning for two new residential colleges remains on track after last weekend’s meeting of the Yale Corporation, and a vote to approve the expansion is expected shortly after commencement, University officials said Monday.
An accomplished group of much more than merely dignified rich people will bring Woodbridge Hall to life today as the Yale Corporation convenes on campus. But do not expect their meeting to usher Yale into a world of 14 colleges.
Ten years ago, University President Richard Levin presented the Yale Corporation with a list of his goals for the next decade, ranging from globalizing the University to investing in the sciences. The last item on the list: “Build two new residential colleges,” Levin confessed Monday.
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...
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 prospect of building two new residential colleges may have dominated this weekend’s meeting of the Yale Corporation, but that’s not to say its members do not have anything else on their minds.
President Richard Levin endorsed the proposal to build two new residential colleges Monday and announced he would recommend that the Yale Corporation proceed with planning. In a statement e-mailed to the Yale community, which included the release of a long-awaited report examining the viability...
