<p>Two new colleges would allow Yale to increase undergraduate enrollment by 12-13%</p>
<p>[WCBS</a> NEWSRADIO 880 - Yale Plans Biggest Expansion in Decades](<a href=“New York News & Talk Radio - WCBS-AM | WCBS Newsradio 880”>New York News & Talk Radio - WCBS-AM | WCBS Newsradio 880)</p>
<p>Harvard plans to expand, Yale plans to expand … (couldn’t resist!)</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> University Allston Initiative Home Page](<a href=“http://www.allston.harvard.edu/]Harvard”>http://www.allston.harvard.edu/)</p>
<p>I’ll see your expansion and raise you…;)</p>
<p>Not to mention your financial aid! ;)</p>
<p>Don’t forget that Yale bought the 137 acre Bayer HealthCare campus in West Haven last year for increased lab space, storage space for its museums’ collections, and who knows what else. It will be fascinating to see how all this pans out and changes the college.</p>
<p>In 100 years New Haven will be entirely owned by Yale, and there will be a partner city that borders Yale called New New Haven.</p>
<p>Harvard and MIT will carve up Cambridge, so there will be a new city next door named Oxford.</p>
<p>Anyone care to make book on what the new colleges are called?</p>
<p>Brewster College? :)</p>
<p>The administration has said that the new colleges will not be named after donors. Here’s the Yale Alumni Magazine’s take on names:</p>
<p>Noah Webster College
It’s surprising the campus has done so little to commemorate its most ubiquitous man of letters. Without Webster’s Americanized English, we’d still be sending people to gaol; surely he’s worthy of the honour.</p>
<p>Edward Bouchet College
As a corrective to the ten colleges named for white men (eight of them slaveholders), why not name one for the first African American to earn a BA at Yale? Bouchet was also the first African American to earn a PhD anywhere.</p>
<p>William Howard Taft College
We hesitate to bring up any of the four recent U.S. presidents to graduate from Yale, but history has had time to judge Taft. He was the only person to be both president of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court, and he taught at Yale Law School between those two gigs. </p>
<p>Grace Hopper College
Hopper, who earned her doctorate in math and physics from Yale in 1934, was a rear admiral in the Navy and a computer pioneer. She famously traced a problem in an early Navy computer to a trapped moth, which she mounted in a log book with the notation “first actual case of a bug being found.” So the college intramural nickname (go Bugs!) is ready-made.</p>
<p>Cole Porter College
Is there another Yale graduate who contributed more joy and fun to the world than the composer of “Night and Day,” “Let’s Do It,” and (of course) “Bulldog?” It would surely be Yale’s most delightful, delicious, and de-lovely college. </p>
<p>Brewster and Coffin College
A twofer, like Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College. A name honoring William Sloane Coffin '49 and Kingman Brewster '41 would celebrate the sea change in Yale’s character over which the two controversial men presided. As a side benefit, it would keep this magazine’s Letters editor supplied for years to come.</p>
<p>Here’s what alumni have suggested as names:</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Alumni Magazine: Light & Verity](<a href=“http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2007_05/l_v.html]Yale”>http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2007_05/l_v.html)</p>
<p>Although there are many good suggestions–and I love the aside re the likely effect of Brewster and Coffin :)–I’d say that Nathan Hale and Noah Webster are hard to beat. And unlikely to stir up controversy.</p>
<p>I thought that Taft and Porter both sound the best as college names, and also cover a very broad range of greatness(top in law, politics, and music = impressive).</p>