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