AP
June 8, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale University trustees have approved plans for the college's largest expansion in decades.
Yale President Richard Levin announced yesterday that the Yale Corporation has authorized creating two new residential colleges that will increase student enrollment by 15 percent to nearly 7,000. It would be the largest expansion since the Ivy League school began admitting women in 1969.
Levin says Yale now admits fewer than 10 percent of 20,000-plus students who apply each year.
The new colleges are expected to open in 2013.
