Updated: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 1:37pm
At a bash three years ago in honor of David Swensen’s 20th year at the helm of the Yale endowment, a curious bar chart showed the giving of several of Yale’s most generous donors. There were the Harknesses, memorialized on Yale’s most popular classroom building, at $128 million. The Sterlings, of library fame, came in at $151 million, topped by the Beineckes at $263...
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. The largest development from this past weekend’s meeting of the University’s highest governing body was the approval of a new School of...
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. That will not happen until later this year, perhaps at the June meeting of the University’s highest governing body. A formal vote to approve...
When Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49 was master of Morse College in the early 1960s, he made a habit of cross-country skiing in the nearby Grove Street Cemetery. His route was, by necessity, circular — there is only one gate with access in and out of the expansive walled cemetery. In a telephone interview Thursday from his home in Florida, Scully was not thinking much...
In 1718, Elihu Yale was approached with a request. The Collegiate School was to move into a grand new home in New Haven — one in need of a donor. “If what is forming at New Haven might wear the name of Yale College,” a friend of the school wrote to the wealthy Welshman, “your munificence might easily obtain for you such a commemoration and perpetuation of your...
If the University decides to build two new residential colleges, the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign’s initial target of $3 billion could swell to as much as $3.5 or $4 billion, according to officials involved with the fundraising effort. Because it was not listed as one of the campaign’s priorities at its launch in September 2006, the proposed expansion of Yale...
Suppose, over champagne at a white-tablecloth fundraising affair, a rich Yale College alumnus — a CEO, a hedge-fund manager, a man of unlimited personal wealth — turns to Roland Betts ’68, the senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. “A billion dollars is yours,” he offers. “Just one condition: Christen one of the two...
With the addition of two new residential colleges, Science Hill might one day be bustling with undergraduates. So many of them, in fact, that there might not be enough room for them in the nearby science laboratories. Administrators vow the two colleges proposed to go up on Prospect Street will inject new life into Science Hill, a prospect over which science professors...
From the glassed-in esplanade encircling the fourth floor of Cesar Pelli’s new Malone Engineering Center on Prospect Street, the mid-afternoon bustle below is unmistakable. Students and faculty rush between labs and lectures. A construction crane stretches skyward in the distance. But after dusk, when research assistants have put down their pipettes and undergraduates...
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. That aim, like the others before it, now seems almost certain to be realized. And...
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 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...
