Students assigned to Yale’s 13th and 14th residential colleges won’t be lonely in their perch at the base of Science Hill. For one thing, they will certainly not lack company. While administrators have not said so publicly, the two new colleges will have more beds than any of the existing colleges, according to housing data obtained by the News. The colleges will be...
Could the choice of a traditional architect to build Yale’s two new residential colleges actually betray the University’s tradition? That’s what some critics are arguing one day after University President Richard Levin announced that he had tapped Robert A.M. Stern, the staid architect and dean of the School of Architecture, to design colleges 13 and 14. In...
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...
Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, has been commissioned to design Yale’s 13th and 14th residential colleges, the News has learned. University President Richard Levin confirmed the appointment when reached at home Wednesday night. A public announcement is scheduled for today, Levin said. “He’s the ideal person to do this...
After a decade of planning, the University is finally set to begin in earnest the largest expansion of Yale College since women were admitted almost 40 years ago. In June the Yale Corporation officially authorized the addition of two new residential colleges, setting into motion a project that will grow the size of Yale college by 15 percent. For administrators, securing...
Less than a month after it officially embarked upon the addition of two new residential colleges, the University is close to choosing an architect for what will be Yale’s most prized commission in decades. The selection will be announced within a month or so, University President Richard Levin said Sunday. The Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing...
Close to a decade ago, Yale University set out on a mission: to acquire a few two-story houses tucked near the corner of Prospect and Canal streets. University administrators did not want the houses. They wanted the land on which the houses stood, because they forecasted erecting two new residential colleges there at some point in the future. And this year, that...
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...
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...
