Yale University

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:For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation).

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Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University has graduated numerous Nobel Prize laureates, Supreme Court justices, and U.S. Presidents, including William Howard Taft (B.A.), Gerald Ford (LL.B), George H.W. Bush (B.A.), Bill Clinton (J.D.), and George W. Bush (B.A.).

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Yale's assets, including a $15.2 billion endowment (the second largest in the world, after Harvard) and over a dozen libraries that hold 11 million volumes, support an enrollment of 5,200 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students. Yale's 70 undergraduate majors are primarily focused on a liberal curriculum, and few of Yale's undergraduate departments are pre-professional in nature (even the engineering departments encourage and require students to explore academic disciplines outside of engineering). Some 20 percent of Yale undergraduates major in the sciences, 35 percent in the social sciences, and 45 percent in the arts and humanities. All tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, and more than 75 percent of Yale's 2,000 undergraduate courses enroll fewer than 20 students.

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Yale offers strong graduate programs in classics, drama, art, architecture, history, medicine and law. Overall, Yale has more than 3,200 faculty members, among whom Sterling Professors are considered the highest level.

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Yale's residential college housing system, modeled after similar systems at Oxford and Cambridge, is unique among universities in the United States. Each of Yale's 12 residential colleges houses a representative cross-section of the undergraduate student body, and features numerous facilities, seminars, and support personnel for its students.

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Yale has produced prominent alumni in many different fields. The university claims more U.S. Presidents in modern times than any other university, and beginning with Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, at least one Yale graduate has been a Democratic or Republican Presidential or Vice-Presidential nominee in every election since 1972. Six Yale graduates have won the Nobel Prize since 1994. According to Fortune magazine, Yale has graduated more Fortune 500 CEOs than any other undergraduate college. Numerous actors including Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Edward Norton have also come from Yale.

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Yale is selective in admissions in its undergraduate and graduate programs. Fewer than 10 percent of the nearly twenty thousand applicants to the undergraduate college are offered admission each year, and approximately three-quarters of those offered admission choose to attend. Yale Law School accepts approximately 6% of its nearly 4,000 applicants (making it the most selective law school in the United States), and more than 80% of those offered admission choose to attend.

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The rivalry between Yale and Harvard University is long and storied, by far the oldest and most intense in the Ivy League; from academics to rowing to college football, their historic competition is similar to that of Oxford and Cambridge. Other universities considered peer schools to Yale include Princeton University, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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During Yale's tercentennial celebration in 2001, Yale president Richard C. Levin summarized Yale's institutional goals for the twenty-first century: "As we look to the future, Yale remains committed to undergraduate education and a determination to educate leaders. Leaders of the twenty-first century will operate in a global environment. Therefore, Yale's curriculum is increasing its focus on international concerns and having strong international representation among our student population."

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►	See also
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Stanley Milgram radio documentary

In 1961, Yale University social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted incredibly provocative experiments in obedience in which subjects administered apparently painful and even lethal electric shocks to others just because an authority figure in a lab coat told them to. (The shocks were fake and the recipients were shills, but the subjects didn't know this.) More than four decades later, ABC Radio InterNational's Gina Perry tracked down some of the victims subjects. Beyond The Shock Machine Previously on BB: ? Virtual version of Stanley Milgram obedience experiment ? Stanley Milgram's shocking new biography ? Milgram Reenactment...

Science of gossip

Why do we gossip? Apparently, the trait evolved as an important way to bond small groups together. In recent years, evolutionary psychologists have began studying gossip, first to define what it is (and isn't) and then to explore why it evolved. The new issue of Scientific American Mind surveys the latest science of gossip. From SciAm Mind: Why does private information about other people represent such an irresistible temptation for us? In his book Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Harvard University Press, 1996), psychologist Robin Dunbar of the University of Liverpool in England suggested that gossip is a mechanism for bonding social groups together, analogous to the grooming that is found in primate groups. Sarah R. Wert, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Peter Salovey of Yale University have proposed that gossip is one of the best tools that we have for comparing ourselves socially with others... The aspect of gossip that is most troubling is that in its rawest form it is a strategy used by individuals to further their own reputations and selfish interests at the expense of others. This nasty side of gossip usually overshadows the more benign ways in which it functions in society. After all, sharing gossip with another person is a sign of deep trust because you are clearly signaling that you believe that this person will not use this sensitive information in a way that will have negative consequences for you; shared secrets also have a way of bonding people together. An individual who is not included in the office gossip network is obviously an outsider who is not trusted or accepted by the group. There is ample evidence that when it is controlled, gossip can indeed be a positive force in the life of a group. In a review of the literature published in 2004, Roy F. Baumeister of Florida State University and his colleagues concluded that gossip can be a way of learning the unwritten rules of social groups and cultures by resolving ambiguity about group norms. Gossip is also an efficient way of reminding group members about the importance of the group?s norms and values; it can be a deterrent to deviance and a tool for punishing those who transgress. Science of Gossip, Buy Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Thanks, Marina Gorbis!) Previously on BB: ? Psychology of rumors...

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