Yale University

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Yale University

Yale University Shield 

Yale University Seal

Former names

Collegiate School

1701–1718

Yale College

1718–1887

Motto אורים ותמים Hebrew

Motto in English

Light and truth

Established October 9, 1701

Type Private

Endowment $25.6 billion

President Peter 

Academic staff

4,171

Students 12,223

Undergraduates 5,414

Postgraduates 6,809

Location New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Campus Urban/College town, 1,015 acres including Yale Golf Course

Colors     Yale Blue

Athletics NCAA Division 

Ivy League

Nickname Bulldogs

Mascot Handsome Dan

Affiliations Ivy League

Website

Yale University 

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in  United States. In 1718, the school was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift  a governor of the 

Yale is organized into twelve constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and ten professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale 

British East India Company and in 1731 received a further gift of land and slaves from train Congregationalist ministers in theology and sacred languages, by 1777 the school's curriculum began to incorporate humanities 

and sciences and in the 19th century gradually incorporated graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887.

Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New 

Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. The Yale University Library, serving all twelve schools, holds more than 15 million 

England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $23.9 billion as of September 27, 2014, the second largest of any educational institution in the world.

volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States. Outside of academic studies, students the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I Ivy League.

Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 13 living billionaires,and many foreign heads of state. In addition, Yale has graduated hundreds of members of 

Congress and many high-level U.S. diplomats, including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry. Fifty-two Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the University as students, faculty, or staff, and 230 Rhodes Scholars graduated from the University.

Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School," passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701, while meeting in New Haven. The Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut. Soon thereafter, a group of ten 

Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel  Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Abraham  Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy all alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend r books to form the school's library.The group, led by James  is now known as "The Founders".

Originally known as the "Collegiate School," the institution opened in the home of its first rector, Abraham The school moved to  and then . In 1716 the college moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

First diploma awarded by Yale College, granted to Nathaniel Chauncey, 1702.

Meanwhile, there was a rift forming at Harvard between its sixth president Increase Mather and the rest of the Harvard clergy, whom Mather viewed as increasingly liberal, ecclesiastically lax, and overly broad in 

Church polity. The feud caused the to champion the success of the Collegiate School in the hope that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not

In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Samuel Andrew or the colony's Governor Cotton Mather contacted a successful lived in Wales but had been born in Boston and whose father, 

David, had been one of the original settlers in New Haven, to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college. Through the persuasion of Jeremiah ale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in 

Madras as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £560, a substantial sum at the time. Cotton Mather suggested that the school change its name to Yale College. Meanwhile, a Harvard graduate working in England convinced some 180 prominent 

intellectuals that they should donate books to Yale. The 1714 shipment of 500 books represented the best of modern English literature, science, philosophy and theology.It had a profound effect on intellectuals at Yale. Undergraduate Jonathan Edwards discovered John Locke's works and developed his original theology

known as the "new divinity". In 1722 the Rector and six of his friends, who had a study group to discuss the new ideas, announced that they had given up Calvinism, become and joined the Church of England. They were ordained in England and returned to the colonies 

as missionaries for the Anglican faith. Thomas became president in 1745, and struggled to return the college to Calvinist orthodoxy; but he did not close the library. Other students found Deist books in the library.