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| Grace Hopper College | |
|---|---|
| Residential college | |
| Yale University | |
 Coat of Arms of Grace Hopper College (Adopted 2017) | |
| Location | 189 Elm Street |
| Coordinates | 41°18′36″N 72°55′38″W / 41.309974°N 72.927241°W |
| Motto | Una imus in altum (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Into the deep heaven we go |
| Established | 1933 (as Calhoun College) |
| Named for | Grace Murray Hopper formerly, John C. Calhoun |
| Previous names | Calhoun College |
| Architect | James Gamble Rogers |
| Colors | Black, Navy Blue, Gold, Silver |
| Sister college | Kirkland House, Harvard |
| Head | Julia Adams[1] |
| Dean | David Francis |
| Undergraduates | 425 (2013–2014) |
| Mascot | Dolphin |
| Website | gracehopper |
Grace Hopper College is a residential college of Yale University, opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. It was originally named Calhoun College after US Vice President John C. Calhoun, but renamed in 2017 in honor of computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper.[2][3][4] The building was designed by John Russell Pope.
From the 1960s onward, Calhoun's white supremacist beliefs and pro-slavery leadership[5][6][7][8] had prompted calls to rename the college and remove its tributes to Calhoun. In 2016, the Yale Corporation chose to retain the Calhoun name,[9][10] but in 2017 it reversed its decision and renamed the college after Hopper.[2][3]
- ^ "Head Julia Adams & Associate Head Hans van Dijk". Grace Hopper College. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Yale to change Calhoun College's name to honor Grace Murray Hopper". YaleNews. February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
- ^ a b Hamid, Zainab (February 11, 2017). "Calhoun College to be Renamed for Grace Hopper GRD '34". Yale Daily News. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
- ^ "Welcome | Grace Hopper College". gracehopper.yalecollege.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
- ^ Calhoun, John C. (February 6, 1837), Slavery a Positive Good, retrieved April 30, 2016
- ^ "To the Yale Administration", Yale students, 2015, retrieved April 30, 2016
- ^ Caplan, Lincoln (October 5, 2015), "The White-Supremacist Lineage of a Yale College: The elite university still honors the South Carolina senator best known for praising the morality of slavery", The Atlantic, retrieved April 30, 2016
- ^ "Freshman Address, Yale College Class of 2019: Launching a Difficult Conversation". president.yale.edu. August 29, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth (April 30, 2016), "At Yale, a Right That Doesn't Outweigh a Wrong", The New York Times, New Haven, retrieved April 30, 2016
- ^ "Yale University will keep college named for John C. Calhoun despite protests". Fox News. April 28, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2016.