November 07, 2005

Yale Music NEWSFILTER: Yale School of Music Receives $100 Million Gift - The Yale School of Music has received a gift of $100 million that will allow the school to subsidize fully the tuition for all students, Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced.
posted by techsmith 19 years ago
  • Y'know those guitars that're like . . double . . guitars? Y'know?
  • Hey, wow! Priveliged white people now more priveliged!
  • It's nice to see an arts program recieve this kind of gift as opposed to the usual business and law school varieties. I don't understand the allusion to priveliged white people, though. I've always been under the impression that (good) performance-based programs look at talent rather than race and economic status. Wish someone would give my department a huge gift like that...
  • True, it's a wonderful thing. Heck, All music programs should be so funded. Oh right - must invade non-threatening nations first
  • The gift also will make it possible for the school to expand its presence in the New Haven Community, from the public school system to partnerships with New Haven's professional arts community. Pretty cool. That and that it's anonymous.
  • I've always been under the impression that (good) performance-based programs look at talent rather than race and economic status. I said priveliged because… Well, hell, they're in Yale. I'd say that's pretty priveliged right there. Admittedly, I have no idea whatsoever as to the race makeup of that university.
  • expand its presence in the New Haven Community You mean Crackton?
  • Um...I go to Yale. I now have priviledges (mainly in the form of good graduate funding - about $17,000 USD / year, so long as I am there teaching - though this year I only have 9,000 GBP for Dreadnought and I both to live on), but I lived in subsidized housing for 18 years before that. The graduate programs, including music, are actually quite diverse in their make-up socieconomically. The undergraduate is more diverse racially, but less diverse socioeconomically. There are many non-white and non-rich and extremely talented musicians who will benefit greatly from this - in fact, this will make the music school much more open to people who can't self finance a tuition of $24,000 USD. (There is some funding for music, but not that much - my friend in music had to wait each year to see if he would continue to receive the outside scholarship he had to let him continue.)
  • And New Haven is a really nice and friendly town. For every crack dealer, there are a hundred honest hard working people, and, yes, another dozen or more unemployed people. It's a city with poverty, homelessness and segregation - but also with a vibrant city life and people active in their local community. If I could, I would happily live somewhere like New Haven when I grow up. Also, the houses are really pretty - and HUGE. (Says the person living in a little two-bedroomed terrace house with three people).
  • Oh - and I did pay for the whole of my undergraduate myself, before getting said cushy graduate stipend.