Yale University

Some of the key events about Yale University

• 1701

  Founded as the Collegiate School, becoming the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States
• 1701

  Yale was founded on money from the slave trade and colonial exploitation
• 1718

  Renamed Yale College in honor of a major benefactor
• 1854

  The university expelled a student for being African American
• 1861

  Awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States
• 1869

  Became the first university in the United States to establish a School of Fine Arts
• 1887

  Established the Yale Law Journal, the oldest student-run law review in the United States
• 1900

  Formed the Yale University Press, a major academic publishing house
• 1916

  Established the Yale School of Public Health, the first of its kind in the United States
• 1920s

  Yale implemented quotas to limit Jewish student enrollment
• 1949

  Founded the Yale Computer Science Department, one of the oldest in the United States
• 1969

  The university initially refused to admit female undergraduates
• 1976

  Yale was sued for sex discrimination in its faculty hiring and promotion practices
• 1977

  Became fully coeducational, admitting women to the undergraduate program
• 1991

  The university returned $20 million to donor Lee Bass after failing to implement a Western civilization program he requested
• 2001

  Yale faced criticism for accepting a $17 million donation from a suspected al-Qaeda financier
• 2007

  Launched Yale-NUS College in Singapore, Yale's first overseas campus
• 2009

  The university was criticized for its response to the murder of a graduate student on campus
• 2015

  Yale faced protests over racial insensitivity and discrimination on campus
• 2019

  The university was implicated in the college admissions bribery scandal

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