If Yale goes ahead with the proposed addition of two new residential colleges, the increase in the size of the student body and the physical isolation of the new colleges could prompt a larger percentage of students to study abroad during the academic year.
In 1972, Yale announced a plan for expansion. But on the eve of construction, New Haven officials blocked the addition of Yale residential colleges 13 and 14. Thirty-five years later, plans to expand Yale are once again on the table, but the political landscape — and with it, Yale’s likelihood for success — is dramatically different.
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...
Students may not have noticed it, but Yale’s campus grew by a third on Tuesday morning.
With regard to construction around campus, the University is playing a “large game of dominos,” according to School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern.
Famed architect Lord Norman Foster ARC ’62 has been selected to design the Yale School of Management’s new campus on Whitney Avenue, Yale President Richard Levin confirmed Monday night.
The final decision on building two new residential colleges will come two months later than originally scheduled, University administrators said this week.
A 137-acre campus in West Haven may become home to some of Yale’s medical or scientific research projects, depending on the outcome of negotiations between the University and the current owner, Bayer HealthCare.
