Yale University
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 Harkness Tower at Yale | |
Former names | Collegiate School (1701-1718) Yale College (1718-1887) |
|---|---|
| Motto | אורים ותמים (Hebrew) Lux et veritas (Latin) |
Motto in English | Light and truth |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1701 |
| Endowment | US $25.4 billion[1] |
| President | Peter Salovey |
Academic staff | 3,619[2] |
| Students | 11,593 |
| Undergraduates | 5,275 |
| Postgraduates | 6,318 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | Urban, 837 acres (339 ha) including Yale Golf Course |
| Colors | Yale Blue[3] since 1894; prior color, green |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I (FCS Football) Ivy League |
| Affiliations | Ivy League AAU IARU |
| Mascot | Handsome Dan |
| Website | yale.edu |
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. It is in the Ivy League and considered by many people to be one of the best universities in the world. Yale is the third oldest university in the United States.
Yale was founded in 1701 in a town near New Haven by a group of church ministers. At first it was called "The Collegiate School" and was created to teach male church ministers in Connecticut. When Elihu Yale, a businessman with the East India Company, gave the school money and books in 1718, the school changed its name to Yale College. It moved into the center of New Haven in the same year. About fifty years later, the school began to teach other subjects like science and history. As the school became more liberal, it became one of the first American schools where extracurricular student groups were created, especially singing groups, sports teams, and student publications like the Yale Daily News.
In the beginning, Yale only taught undergraduate students. Over time, it created graduate schools for medicine, nursing, environmental science, law, music, drama, business, and other professions. In 1869, Yale became the first school in the United States to offer a PhD. Because it had grown to have many types of schools, degrees, and courses, Yale changed its name to Yale University in 1887. The undergraduate college began to accept women as students in 1969.
Yale has one of the largest libraries in the United States, with 19 library buildings and over 15 million books. The school's main library building, Sterling Memorial Library, is built to look like a cathedral. The Beinecke Library has one of the world's largest collections of rare books and old manuscripts.
The school's campus is known for its Gothic Revival architecture, which was built to look like older English universities like Oxford and Cambridge. On its main campus, Yale has two art museums, a natural history museum, and many theaters. The university also has a golf course near campus and owns five forests in New England.
Fifty-two Nobel Prize winners have been students or professors at Yale, and five U.S. presidents have graduated from Yale, including George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Other famous alumni include politicians Hilary Clinton and John Kerry, actors Meryl Streep and Edward Norton, inventors Eli Whitney and Samuel Morse, CNN anchors Fareed Zakaria and Anderson Cooper, FedEx founder Fred Smith and Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi, and computer scientist Grace Hopper.
Yale's color is blue, and its mascot is a bulldog named "Handsome Dan." Its sports teams are called the Yale Bulldogs, and they play in the Ivy League.
Peter Salovey, a psychologist, is the current president of Yale.
Yale University Media
A front view of "Yale-College" and the college chapel, printed by Daniel Bowen in 1786
Coat of arms of the family of Elihu Yale, after whom the university was named in 1718
Connecticut Hall, oldest building on the Yale campus, built between 1750 and 1753
First diploma awarded by Yale College, granted to Nathaniel Chauncey in 1702
"A View of the Buildings of Yale College at New Haven," lithograph, published by A. Doolittle & Son, New Haven. Courtesy of the Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database.
Woolsey Hall c. 1905
Richard Rummell's 1906 watercolor of the Yale campus facing north
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References
- ↑ Investment Return of 21.9% Brings Yale Endowment Value to $19.4 Billion. September 28, 2010. http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8925. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ↑ "Yale Facts | Yale". Yale.edu. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ↑ Yale University - Identity Guidelines
- ↑ Mark Alden Branch (February 2003). "The Ten Greatest Yalies Who Never Were". Yale Alumni Magazine. Retrieved February 26, 2006.
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