Yale University Profile
Santanna Coleman
Liberty University
01/31/19
Yale University Profile
Yale University is one of the oldest institutions in America, founded in 1701. It is a private institution lead by its president Peter Salovey. The private institution has over 12,000 undergraduates, Ph.D., and postgraduates engaged in different courses (Stock & Siegfried, 2015). The university has undergone much development in a financial and flexible curriculum. It has excellent potential in the biology, debate, sports, and academics fields as one of the top-ranked institutions in the world (Noble et al., 2016). Yale University accepts elite and regular students from any background. This university gets involved in many initiatives from health to globalization. An example of such efforts is the Yale-China Law Centre which promotes the rule of law in China (Resnik et al., 2016). The institution interacts with international partners like Yale-NUS College that supports art and an innovative academic curriculum in Singapore, Asia. Yale University has had many famous alumni such as Jodie Foster, Bill Clinton, President George Bush and Crown Princess of Sweden, Victoria. Yale has several residential colleges and nonresidential buildings that are prestigious and locate strategically within the university (Snow& Dworsky, 2018).
Yale University has safety strategies that ensure the campus is secure from external threats and making sure unruly behaviors get rooted out. The Yale Police department and the various campus securities represent a measure, ensuring the protection of all the students. In academics, the university population has approximately 12,400 students (2015), with a balanced gender ratio. Yale University has a balance ethnic profile whereby 19% are from disadvantaged minorities, and over 50% of students have financial aid (Castleman et al., 2015). Each year admits nontraditional students to improve socialization and reduce racial profiling like in other institutions hence making Yale a non-racial university. Sterling Memorial Library has over 4 million volumes of books with rare historical and medical contents. Yale has research data services, publishing center a music foundation that enhances talents and fosters collaboration among students (Hudson et al., 2016). As a pioneer in the academic, the university has over 400 registered students' organizations which give students more successful in the job market than other institutions. Yale University is the University of Choice and the pillar of academics in the United States (Potts, 2016).
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Hudson, M., Bohemier, K., Milian, R., & Kirkpatrick, T. (2016). Research Data Services at Yale University.
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Potts, D. (2016). Liberal Education for a Land of Colleges: Yale’s Reports of 1828. Springer.
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