Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
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Some of the key events about Yale University

  • 1701
    Founded as the Collegiate School, becoming the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States
  • 1701
    Yale was founded on money from the slave trade and colonial exploitation
  • 1718
    Renamed Yale College in honor of a major benefactor
  • 1854
    The university expelled a student for being African American
  • 1861
    Awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States
  • 1869
    Became the first university in the United States to establish a School of Fine Arts
  • 1887
    Established the Yale Law Journal, the oldest student-run law review in the United States
  • 1900
    Formed the Yale University Press, a major academic publishing house
  • 1916
    Established the Yale School of Public Health, the first of its kind in the United States
  • 1920s
    Yale implemented quotas to limit Jewish student enrollment
  • 1949
    Founded the Yale Computer Science Department, one of the oldest in the United States
  • 1969
    The university initially refused to admit female undergraduates
  • 1976
    Yale was sued for sex discrimination in its faculty hiring and promotion practices
  • 1977
    Became fully coeducational, admitting women to the undergraduate program
  • 1991
    The university returned $20 million to donor Lee Bass after failing to implement a Western civilization program he requested
  • 2001
    Yale faced criticism for accepting a $17 million donation from a suspected al-Qaeda financier
  • 2007
    Launched Yale-NUS College in Singapore, Yale's first overseas campus
  • 2009
    The university was criticized for its response to the murder of a graduate student on campus
  • 2015
    Yale faced protests over racial insensitivity and discrimination on campus
  • 2019
    The university was implicated in the college admissions bribery scandal

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