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The College

Enriching the Complete College Experience

Since Yale’s founding more than 300 years ago, the College has played a defining role in the evolution of higher education around the globe. Generations of our graduates have made their mark on business and society, creating lasting legacies in the form of political policies and public service, artistic compositions, and literary works. Each successful graduate strives to bring about good in our world, and each one’s efforts elevate Yale College to a higher realm of achievement.

Today, from a position of great strength and seeming security, we face the future of our changing world—and we know that only by adapting will we continue to serve as a positive influence. Tomorrow’s leaders will not only need broad skills that transcend content areas, they will need the ability to transfer their communication and reasoning expertise to newly emerging contexts. We must infuse Yale College’s traditions of independent thinking and intellectual curiosity with a new flexibility, so that our graduates may address unimagined fields of inquiry with clarity and confidence.

With your support, we will harness the greatness of our past, strengthen the prominence of our present, and transform Yale for the future. Please join us by investing in our ambitious goals for Yale College.