<p>So I heard that several of the residential colleges are getting major renovations. Anyone know which ones and what is going in or changing?</p>
<p>I believe that Stiles is undergoing renovation this year, with Morse following next year (or is it the other way around)? All of the other colleges have already been renovated.</p>
<p>Every college except for Stiles has been renovated, one at a time, for the past decade or so. They are wrapping up Morse right now and Stiles is being renovated this year (2010-2011).</p>
<p>Correct. The morse renovations are set to wrap up in August, and the renovated Stiles will be ready in fall 2011. The fall semester will also mark the opening of a new, shared basement for Morse and Stiles :)</p>
<p>Wonderful! So now all of the colleges are equally great, if for different reasons.</p>
<p>^ Sort of. Keep in mind that this has been a 12 year process, and that the more recent renovations are therefore, to some extent, better than older ones. Ideas have changed A LOT in the past 10 years. All the colleges, though, are in their own ways, amazing.</p>
<p>And regardless of which college you’re in, you’re still at Yale :)</p>
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I heard about the same. Calhound seems to be renovated quite a long time ago. But the housing at Yale is in general very good. It is so good that most students want to live on campus for 4 years. More students may be annexed for a year or two because of this. This issue may be more serious for a smaller college.
Sorry about being off the topic: YeloPen, How many hours do you need to fly from San Diego to Yale? Do you have a direct flight? I know many students on the west coast need to fly overnight. Hmm… it appears SW airline fly to both San Diego and BDL.</p>
<p>Calhoun was renovated 2008-2009…</p>
<p>Chronological list of Yale Residential College renovations (year indicates approximate start of renovation).</p>
<p>Berkeley– 1998
Branford – 1999
Saybrook – 2000
Timoth Dwight – 2002
Pierson – 2003
Davenport – 2004
Silliman – 2005
Trumbull – 2006
Jonathan Edwards – 2007
Cahoun – 2008
Stiles – 2009
Morse – 2010</p>
<p>Generally speaking the approach was to renovate the oldest buildings first (or at least the buildings that had gone longest without renovation).</p>
<p>I believe the Old Campus freshman dorms were renovated in the 2001-2003 time frame.</p>
<p>See [Residential</a> colleges of Yale University - Wikipedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_colleges_of_Yale_University]Residential”>Residential colleges of Yale University - Wikipedia) for more.</p>
<p>Presumably after Morse is completed attention will turn to the two new but as yet unnamed Colleges approved in 2008.</p>
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<p>These are flipped. Morse began last year and will be done by August. Stiles is up next.</p>
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<p>I’ve only flown out to Yale once, and on that trip my flight went from San Diego to Denver to JFK. I had one of those shuttles reserved that then took me from JFK to Phelps Gate. I didn’t do an overnight flight, so I arrived at around 7 pm (I left San Diego at like 7 or 8 in the morning?) after a day of flying.</p>
<p>Apparently Saybrook is having some kind of mini renovation this summer, and they had like a retouch done in 2005. I’m assuming the colleges get touched up every so often, even if its not a major “renovation”. However, they really should renovate L-Dub at some point… :P</p>
<p>L-Dub did have a bunch of blue tarp when I left campus in early June. I think it might be getting some sort of renovation. And I think more tarp was being put on Branford, but that might have been made up.</p>
<p>So the major renovations will pretty much be done by the time the Class of 2015 comes in?</p>
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Not sure how I got that wrong, but thanks for the correction.
Yes, so it would seem. That class will probably get to see the new colleges going up.</p>
<p>drbigboyjoe, I was in New Haven for a conference a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed the construction around L-Dub. When I asked about it, I was told that they’re doing something structural (?) to support the gates where the lions usually sit. The person with whom I spoke wasn’t aware of any plans to renovate the interior spaces. Bummer.</p>
<p>Descartesz, do you know if there’s a scheduled date for breaking ground on the new colleges? The last I heard was that it had been postponed… and nothing more.</p>
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That is my understanding of the status, too. While they have picked location and design and cleared the site (or, at least, are about to), start of construction is as yet unscheduled. This, I believe, is the last YDN article on their status: <a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/19/colleges-site-may-temporarily-be-playing-fields/[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/19/colleges-site-may-temporarily-be-playing-fields/</a></p>
<p>Thank you, Descatesz. I hadn’t seen this article and didn’t know about the plan to use the space temporarily for athletic fields. Sounds good, all things considered.</p>
<p>Silliman was renovated in the 2006-2007 academic year, not 2005-2006.</p>