Yale University

Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, is the third oldest university in the United States (after Harvard and William and Mary). Yale is one of the most liberal schools in the Ivy League, known in particular for its radical feminism and its promotion of the homosexual agenda. Hillary and Bill Clinton are graduates of Yale Law School.

In a survey that was conducted by the Yale Daily News in 2018, queer freshmen were far greater than conservatives:^[3]

Yale has engaged in cancel culture before, such as when they renamed Calhoun College (one of their residential colleges) to Grace Hopper College simply because Calhoun owned slaves. This is despite the fact that Calhoun was valedictorian at Yale and was named by John F. Kennedy as one of the five most important Senators in US history. Ironically, the university itself was named after the notorious slave trader Elihu Yale,^[4] in spite of the fact that Jeremiah Dummer had more to do with the creation of the university. This has prompted some conservatives to suggest re-naming the entire university "Dummer University".^[5] Yale also produced a high percentage of pro-slavery clergy,^[6] and did little to combat racism in Connecticut, which was long the most racist state in New England.

In 2022, Yale received the ignominious "Lifetime Censorship Award" from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).^[7]

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Van Jones are all proud graduates of Yale, an institution that best exemplifies systemic racism.

Schools[edit]

There are numerous components, including the undergraduate Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as world-famous professional schools of Law, Medicine, Architecture, Art, Divinity, Drama, Engineering & Applied Science, Forestry & Environmental Studies. Management, Music, and Public Health, along with many research centers.

History[edit]

Yale was heavily oriented toward undergraduates until 1919, when under President Arthur Hadley (1899-1921) and James Angell (1921–37) it moved rapidly to become a full-scale university. It isolated the undergraduates into separate residential "colleges" taught primarily by a separate faculty, while the big-name professors concentrated on research and gradate-level professional training.

Yale College was founded in 1701 to train ministers; after the Civil War it became the first university in the United States to award a Ph. D. degree. The University was given its name to honor benefactor Elihu Yale, who donated a substantial amount of goods for sale and books during the early years of the institution, which was then named the Collegiate School. It is a member of the Ivy League, and, with Harvard and Princeton, part of the group known as the Big Three or HYP, which are associated both with academic excellence and with social prestige.

Yale's endowment is typically second to Harvard overall (although Princeton has more per student).

Colleges[edit]

The College is also known for its system of twelve residential colleges, as opposed to dormitories. Students are randomly selected for their residential college before their freshman year, and remain in their residential college for the remainder of their time at Yale. Six of the colleges, including Branford, Saybrook, Jonathan Edwards, Berkeley, Calhoun, and Trumbull, serve as excellent examples of the Collegiate Gothic style of architecture, whereas Davenport, Pierson, Timothy Dwight, and Silliman are Georgian. These first ten were designed by James Gamble Rogers, while Morse and Stiles colleges are renowned examples of Eero Saarinen's modern style. Although they are intended to be covered in ivy, the concrete-stone amalgam used in their construction repels the vines.

Alumni[edit]

Yale alumni among U. S. Presidents include both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush (Yale College), as well as William Howard Taft (Yale College), Gerald R. Ford (Yale Law School), and Bill Clinton (Yale Law School).^[8] Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attended Yale Law at the same time as her husband-to-be.

A survey of alumni in 2009 indicated that 53% are Democrats, 25% Republicans, and 19% independents.

Admission[edit]

Yale has a highly competitive undergraduate program, recently admitting as few as 9% of its applicants. The highly prestigious medical and law schools are even harder to get into.

Yale is one of the eight schools in the Ivy League. Yale accepts applications from homeschooled students.^[9]

Students and alumni were once called "Elis" (after Elihu Yale); they are now "Yalies".

See also[edit]

• University
• Harvard University
• Princeton University
• Avalon Project

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