The Yale 5-Year B.A. Program

“Five Year B. A. Experiment: Background” from the statement by President Kingman Brewster, Jr. to the Yale College Faculty, 18 February 1965:

Some foundational documents (from the Yale University Archives):

• “Five Year B.A. Experiment” – (“The following proposal will be submitted to the Faculty of Yale College by President Brewster at the meeting of February 18. [1965])
• Proposal for the Evaluation of the Experimental 5-Year Program and its Student Participants

• Program Announcement: “To Members of the Class of 1968” (May 11, 1965)
• Program Press Release “…. for the MORNING papers of MONDAY, September 12, 1965”

[PDF copies of original documents, courtesy of  Mr. Michael Lotstein, University Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library]

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Years later in December of 1977, when Prosser Gifford was Dean of Faculty at Amherst College, he was apparently being considered as a possible candidate for the Presidency of Yale University upon the departure of Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• “Yale’s Hush-Hush Hunt May Be Settled Today,” The Washington Post, 6 December 1977

See related:

Prosser Gifford – Memorial Celebration October 9, 2021h

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