Franklin College (Yale University)
Benjamin Franklin College | |
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Residential college at Yale University | |
Yale University | |
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Location | 90 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06520 |
Coordinates | 41°18′52″N 72°55′31″W / 41.314423°N 72.925297°WCoordinates: 41°18′52″N 72°55′31″W / 41.314423°N 72.925297°W |
Established | 2017 |
Named for | Benjamin Franklin |
Colors | Blue, Red |
Sister college |
Selwyn College, Cambridge Keble College, Oxford |
Head | Charles Bailyn |
Dean | Jessie Royce Hill |
Website |
benjaminfranklin |
Benjamin Franklin College[1] is a residential college for undergraduates of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. It opened to students for the 2017 academic year.
History
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In 2008, Yale University President Rick Levin announced that the college had the resources to educate more students and thus would expand its enrollment by opening two new residential colleges for a total of fourteen.[2] Architectural models were unveiled by Robert A.M. Stern Architects in May 2009, featuring "a sampling of Gothic styles from across Yale’s campus," notably inspired by the early 20th-century buildings of James Gamble Rogers.[3] Construction began in the fall of 2014,[4] with an official groundbreaking ceremony in April 2015.[5] In April 2016, the university announced that the colleges would be named after Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin.[6] Franklin was chosen at the behest of Charles B. Johnson, class of 1954, who had made the single largest gift in Yale's history. Johnson saw Franklin as a personal role model and was the chairman of Franklin Templeton Investments, a global investment firm named after Franklin. Johnson asked for its consideration but did not stipulate that Yale use the name.[7] The naming decision was met with an outcry by students and faculty.[8]
Benjamin Franklin College is the southern of the two new colleges,[9] referred to as "South College" in some earlier documents.[10] Upon their opening to students for the 2017 academic year, the two colleges increased Yale's undergraduate capacity by 15 percent from 5,400 to 6,200 seats.[11]
Charles Bailyn, A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics, is the first head of Benjamin Franklin College,[1] and Jessie Hill, the former dean of Silliman College, is its first dean.[12]
References
- 1 2 "Heads of the two new residential colleges are named". Yale University. July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
- ↑ Lewin, Tamar (June 8, 2008). "Yale to Expand Undergraduate Enrollment by 15 Percent". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 28, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ↑ "Stern unveils models of new colleges". Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ↑ "Work begins on new colleges, unofficially". Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ↑ "Construction of new residential colleges an 'affirmation of Yale's future'". YaleNews. 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ↑ Remnick, Noah (April 27, 2016). "Yale Defies Calls to Rename Calhoun College". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 2, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ↑ Stanley-Becker, Tom (April 27, 2016). "Yale keeps the Calhoun name despite racial concerns, but ditches the 'master' title". Washington Post. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ↑ Shimer, David (April 27, 2016). "Pauli Murray LAW '65, Benjamin Franklin honored". Yale Daily News. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ↑ Salovey, Peter (April 27, 2016). "Decisions on Residential College Names and "Master" Title". Yale University (Official Yale University Messages). Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Architect's Renderings of the New Residential Colleges" (.pdf). Yale University. April 15, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- ↑ Anderson, Nick (December 21, 2016). "Yale set for biggest expansion in 40 years". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
- ↑ "Deans for Murray and Franklin colleges announced". Yale News. Retrieved 2017-03-21.