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Yale University |
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The institution that became Yale University was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School by ten Congregational ministers in Saybrook, Connecticut. In 1716, the school was moved to New Haven. The School of Medicine was opened in 1813, and a Department of Theology, predecessor to the Divinity School, was created in 1822. In 1824, a private law school conducted in New Haven by three Yale graduates became affiliated with Yale College, and the Bachelor of Laws degree was conferred by Yale for the first time in 1843. The Sheffield Scientific School and the Graduate School followed. The first Ph.D. awarded in America was conferred at Yale in 1861. In 1887, the institution was given the legal title of Yale University. Schools of Music, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Nursing, Engineering, Drama, Art, Architecture, and Management were founded later. The activities of the Sheffield Scientific School were assumed by Yale College and the Graduate School in 1945. The School of Engineering, part of the Sheffield Scientific School from 1861, was established as a separate school in 1932. In 1962, most of its academic responsibilities were transferred to the Department of Engineering and Applied Science, which has since been divided into several departments, called the Faculty of Engineering and headed by a Dean of Engineering. Women were admitted as regularly enrolled students to the Graduate School in 1892 and to Yale College in 1969.
Yale’s Charter provides that the final authority in the “government, care and management” of the University is the Yale Corporation, a body of nineteen Fellows consisting of the President of the University, who presides at all meetings, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the state of Connecticut, ex officiis, ten Fellows who are the “Successors of the Original Trustees” and who may serve for two successive terms of six years, and six Alumni Fellows, one elected each year by the graduates to serve for six years. Upon recommendation of the President in special circumstances a Successor Trustee may be elected to an additional term of up to three years. Alumni Fellows are eligible for appointment as Successor Trustees. Meetings of the Corporation are held regularly during the academic year.
The Officers of the University are appointed by the Corporation. They are the President, Provost, Vice President and Secretary, Vice President for Finance and Administration, Vice President for Development, Vice President and General Counsel, Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs, and such others as the Corporation may designate. A description of the authority vested in each of them and the responsibilities of their respective positions is given in The Yale Corporation By-Laws.
Degrees and courses of study in the University are offered in the twelve schools listed here with the date they were founded: Yale College (1701); School of Medicine (1813); Divinity School (1822); Law School (1824); School of Art (1865); Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1892); School of Music (1894); School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1900); School of Nursing (1923); School of Drama (1955); School of Architecture (1972); School of Management (1974). Each school has its own dean, faculty, and board of permanent officers or other governing body, as approved by the Yale Corporation. The faculties of Yale College and the Graduate School constitute the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is under the direction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, composed of the President, the Provost, the Dean of Yale College, and the Dean of the Graduate School. Subject to the overall authority of the Corporation, on recommendation by the President or Provost, the faculty of each school, acting through such committees and procedures as it may adopt, has the power to determine the school’s educational policies. In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the full professors of that faculty meet together for the purpose of acting on appointments, and that meeting is referred to as the meeting of the Joint Boards of Permanent Officers of Yale College and the Graduate School. In each of the professional schools, the full professors on permanent appointment, as well as, ex officiis, the dean of the school and the President and Provost, constitute the board of permanent officers except where the appointment structure of a school requires a different governing body, as approved by the Corporation.
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