Yale University announced Wednesday that it will retain the name Calhoun College on one of its 12 residential colleges. The college was named for John C. Calhoun, a 19th-century alumnus and a ...

Yale's residential college system has been a staple of the university since the 1930s, when colleges were introduced to house and support undergraduate students.

Yale University announced yesterday that it will build two new residential colleges but retain the name of one of the existing 12 colleges, Calhoun, which had sparked controversy over its namesake ...

Despite student protests, Yale University will not rename the residential college bearing the name of John C. Calhoun , a proponent of slavery, according to an email sent to the university ...

Yale University announced Saturday that it will remove the name of John C. Calhoun from one of its residential colleges. "The decision to change a college’s name is not one we take lightly, but John C ...

The inaugural heads of Yale’s two new residential colleges have been announced by President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. Charles Bailyn, professor of astronomy and physics, ...

Yale University announced Wednesday that it will keep John C. Calhoun's name on one of its residential colleges. The announcement follows much campus debate, with critics saying that it was ...

Students disagreed, with many criticizing the choice of another straight, white male colonial figure as the namesake of a residential college. The Yale College Council released a statement arguing ...

Yale will not rename a residential college named after white supremacist John C. Calhoun, the university’s president announced on Wednesday, in spite of months-long protests by the student ...

President Richard C. Levin announced today the decision to move forward with the expansion of Yale College. In a letter to Yale alumni, faculty, students and staff, he discussed the University’s ...

In 2012, the administration announced that the new residential colleges would comprise only single rooms. But with the addition of some doubles into the plan, the occupants of the colleges will rise ...

Administrators said the new colleges will give the University some breathing room to deal with overcrowding in Yale’s housing system and reduce the number of students annexed outside their college.