Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University is an American private research university.
Established in 1701 in Say-brook Colony as the idealistic School, the University
is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The
school was renamed Yale College in gratitude of a gift from Elihu Yale in 1718.
Yale is classified into 12 fundamental schools: the original undergraduate
college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and sciences, and ten professional
schools. While the university is administrated by the Yale Corporation, each
school's faculty runs its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a
central campus in downtown New Haven, the University has athletic facilities in
western New Haven, comprising the Yale Bowl, a college grounds in West Haven,
Connecticut, and forest and nature conserves all over New England. The
university's asset comprises an endowment valued at $25.6 billion as of
September 2015, the second largest of any educational institution in the world.
Yale College follows a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors in
undergraduates and is categorized into a structure of residential colleges.
Almost all faculties teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are
put forwarded annually. Library of Yale University serves all twelve schools,
have more than 15 million numbers and is the third-largest educational library
in the United States. Outside of educational studies, students compete as the
Yale Bulldogs inter-collegiate in the NCAA Division I Ivy League. Graduates
of Yale has many notable alumni which includes five U.S Presidents,
19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, heads of state of many foreign countries and 13
living billionaires. Additionally, graduates of Yale include hundreds of
members of Congress and high-level U.S. diplomats for e.g. Ex- U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John
Kerry. Also, 52 Nobel Laureates, 230 Rhodes Scholars and 118
Marshall Scholars have been associated with the University.
History of Yale College
Yale College which was earlier known as
Charter Collegiate School in October 9, 1701 Yale marked its commencements
to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School,".
The Act was an attempt to create an organization to prepare
ministers and place leadership for Connecticut. Shortly afterward, a group of
10 Congregationalist ministers, all alumni of Harvard namely Samuel Andrew,
Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont,
Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbrige, met in the
study to team their books to form the school's library. James Pierpont as a
group leader, the group is now known as "The Founders".
Formerly known as the "Collegiate School," the educational organization opened in the home of its earliest rector, Abraham Pierson, in Killing-worth /now Clinton. The school shifted to Say-brook, and then Wethersfield. In 1716 the college shifted to New Haven, Connecticut. Yale College granted First diploma award to Nathaniel Chauncey in 1702.The official name of the university was "The President and Fellows of Yale College, in New Haven" until 1887. Under an act passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1887, Yale got the name of "Yale University."
Yale developed gradually, launching the
Yale Yale school of Medicine in1810, Yale Divinity School in 1822, Yale Law
School in 1843, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847, the
Sheffield Scientific School in 1847 and the Yale school of Fine Arts in1869. As
the college maintained to develop under the presidency of Timothy Dwight V,
Yale College was renamed Yale University in 1887. The university later added
the Yale School of MusicYale School of Music in 1894, the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Yale School of Public Health in
1915, the Yale School of Nursing in 1923, the Yale School of Drama in1955, the Yale
Physician Associate Program in1973 and the Yale School of Management in1976. It
also reorganized its liaison with the Sheffield Scientific School.
Yale and Peking University (PKU) founded a Joint Undergraduate Program in
Beijing, an switch over program permitting Yale students to spend a semester
living and studying with PKU honor students in 2006 but the Peking
University-Yale University Program stopped due to weak involvement in July
2012.
The Boston Globe once wrote "if
there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national
leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale." Yalealumni were embodied
on the Democratic or Republican ticket in every U.S. Presidential election
between 1972 and 2004. Some of the Yale-educated Presidents since the end
of the Vietnam War areGerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton George W.
Bush, and major-party nominees. During 1988 presidential election,George H.W.
Bush ridiculed Michael Dukakis for having "foreign-policy views born in
Harvard courtyard's boutique". When dared on the difference between
Dukakis's Harvard connection and his own Yale background, he said that, unlike
Harvard, Yale's reputation was "so disperse, there isn't a character I
don't think, in the Yale situation, any representation in it" and said
Yale did not distribute Harvard's reputation for "liberalism and
elitism". In 2004, Howard Dean declared, "In some ways, I think
myself separate from the other three (Yale) candidates of 2004. Yale changed so
much between the class of '68 and the class of '71. My class was the first
class to have women in it; it was the first class to have a major effort to
enlist African Americans. It was an amazing time, and in that span of time is
the change of an entire generation".
In 2009, Ex-British Prime Minister Tony
Blair chose Yale for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's United States
Faith and Globalization Initiative. From 2009, Ex-Mexican PresidenErnesto
Zedillo is the administrator of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
and teaches an undergraduate seminar on "Debating Globalization".
From 2009, Ex- presidential candidate and DNC chair Howard Dean teaches a
residential college seminar on "Understanding Politics and
Politicians." In 2009, an coalition was formed among Yale,University
College London, and both schools’ associated hospital to conduct research
focused on the direct progress of patient care which is also known as
translational medicine. The most ambitious international partnership till date
is Yale-NUS College in Singapore to create a new liberal arts college in Asia
featuring an innovative curriculum that weaves Western and Asian traditions.
