NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT–Yale’s Ezra Stiles College, designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1961, reopened to students last month after a one-year, $55 million dollar renovation. The project was the last in a complete overhaul of all the residential colleges at Yale, which started in 1998 and has cost over $500 million (adjusted for inflation).
Students are happy with the work, praising the new brick pizza oven in the dining hall, shift from single to suite-style rooms, and improved furniture and lighting. Jon Rubin ’12 told the Yale Daily News (YDN) the renovated Stiles is “definitely a step up” from the college he lived in two years ago.
For the Yale administration, the project is the final step in a long process to make their student facilities more competitive with peer institutions. “It’s really quite thrilling to have completed this entire cycle,” Yale University President Richard Levin said, in an interview with YDN. “There’s no question now that we have the best residential facilities in the country for our students.”
