The School of Architecture alumnus desperately wanted to get in on the project to build two new residential colleges. He reached out to the University through intermediaries. His firm sent a portfolio to the University Planner’s office, pulling favors to get it to the top of the pile. An aide even e-mailed a reporter to ask for help in getting his name in the mix. Yet...
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...
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. The vote will cap a whirlwind year that saw many students come out against expansion at open forums in the fall semester, only to have University President Richard Levin declare his support for it in February and...
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...
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...
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. The highlight of their summit, to be sure, was the Corporation’s decision Saturday to direct University administrators to proceed with planning for the two new colleges...
University 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 for the project. In a statement e-mailed to the Yale community, which included the release of a long-awaited...
The University’s proposal to build two new residential colleges, which come before the Corporation later this month, has the support of only one in four Yale undergraduates, according to a poll conducted by the News last week. In a poll of 362 undergraduates, 49 percent of respondents said they are against the expansion proposal, while 25 percent said they are in favor...
When an excursion to West Haven is the highlight of a weekend, it must not be a very exciting weekend. Such was the case last weekend, when the members of the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, descended on New Haven for their last meeting before they vote in February on whether to build two new residential colleges. And, like the calm before...
