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November 8, 2019
- The change was unanimously approved during a meeting of the School’s Board of Permanent Officers on November 8, 2019.
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Until 1887, the legal name of the university was "The President and Fellows of Yale College, in New Haven." In 1887, under an act passed by the Connecticut General Assembly, Yale was renamed "Yale University".
Feb 11, 2017 · Yale President Peter Salovey announced today that the university would rename Calhoun College, one of 12 undergraduate residential colleges, to honor one of Yale’s most distinguished graduates, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D., by renaming the college for her.
Feb 11, 2017 · Yale trustees said the Ivy League university is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented...
Jun 28, 2020 · In a Saturday tweet, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas brought the conversation back to Yale when he commented on the decision to strip Wilson’s name from the school, saying, “Yale—founded by slave trader Elihu Yale—changes its name to ‘College of New Haven’ in 3…2…1….”.
Seven years after Yale decided to build two new residential colleges, six years after the university decided not to name the colleges after living donors, and two years after President Peter Salovey ’86PhD called for naming suggestions from the entire Yale community, the campus conversation changed.
The school officially became Yale College in 1718, when it was renamed in honor of Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the The university traces its roots to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a local college in the tradition of European liberal education.
In 1718, at the behest of either Rector Andrew or Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, Cotton Mather contacted a successful businessman in Wales named Elihu Yale to ask him for financial help in constructing a new building for the college.
