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4worldlovers:
Welcome! We are looking forward to meeting you and to having you immerse yourselves into our community and to all we do here in Trumbull. You’ll soon meet each other, our upper-level folks and all of Trumbull’s staff and resident fellows.

You’ll receive a welcome letter from me and from our Dean, Surjit Chandhoke. In it we outlined who we are, where we are on campus, our facilities and some of the many things we do.

You’ll also receive a letter from your First Year Counselor (who, along with Dean Chandhoke), your assigned first year Trumbull fellow advisor, myself (and many others) to help guide you through opening days and your first year at Yale.

Ask us questions. Let us know your concerns. We’re here to support and help you to thrive at Yale and create your community at Trumbull.

As I prepare for your arrival, I’m making plans for next year’s outings, events, speakers, and groups. We have some traditional activities already in the works for the fall, a sailing trip out of Mystic, CT, a dance and an autumn festival in the courtyard. We also have, for the first time, a submarine tour in Groton, CT. In addition, Yale has a huge number of extracurricular activities from which to choose. (Note…there are so many that we’ll be urging you not to over commit to too many events as you settle into your first few months on campus).

I invite you to suggest speakers (for tea/dinner and conversation as a small group in the Trumbull House living room). These speakers might be professors at Yale or at a nearby university, someone with whom you personally happen to have connections with and think others would like to hear, and champions of causes about which you care. Don’t hesitate to also suggest activities. These could be outdoorsy things (hiking, kayaking, beach trips), or indoorsy things (card or board game nights, cooking, baking, karaoke). They could involve going to plays, art museums or a sports event.

We compete with other colleges in fun, intra-mural sports. If you are eager to participate in one or more IM competitions, let me know and I’ll put you in touch with our IM enthusiasts so you can dive in right away.

Again, Class of 2027, welcome to Connecticut (for many of you), welcome to Yale, and welcome to Trumbull College!

4worldlovers: Welcome to Benjamin Franklin College at Yale University. Construction began on our college in the fall of 2014, with an official groundbreaking ceremony in April 2015. In April 2016, the university announced that the college would be named after Benjamin Franklin. We welcomed our first students in August of 2017.

4worldlovers:

Woo hoo! You are a fellow GNOME! (All students in Davenport are gnomes, which is frankly the BEST MASCOT THERE IS.) Today is a great day in which we welcome you to the club. There is much to introduce you to and we are so excited for the gates to be thrown open in August to bring you in and start acquainting you with the Dive (what?), the cottage (huh?), the BEST food on campus (yes, really.), the wildly awesome first-year counselors (they’ll be in touch), your new suite mates (they’ll be in touch too), and other Gnomes who will make up your Davenport family.

August will hold a very big day for all of you: Move-in. Coming off the pandemic, it’s very different this year and we are very excited to welcome you to Davenport. More info will be coming to you on that but do check out the Move-In page there is lots of info. Move-in is the culmination of all your hard high school work finally paying off. So as you walk into the Davenport courtyard as a Yale student for the first time, don’t forget to pause and soak it in!

Welcome and we can’t wait to meet you! In the mean time, you can check out Davenport in this video we made!

Have a great summer; we’ll be together before you know it!

Davenport is one of fourteen residential colleges, which function as communities within the big University. There around 450 undergraduates in Davenport, where we typically have slightly more than 100 students in each of the four undergraduate class years. The College offers a setting that allows you to get to know people with different interests and backgrounds, many of whom (if experience is any guide) may soon become lasting friends.

Davenport students live in the college, take meals in our dining hall, study in our library, attend events in our common room, and generally make the college’s spaces home. We have a spacious upper courtyard that functions like a small park—a perfect space for outdoor studying, relaxing with friends, and playing ultimate frisbee or Spike Ball. A smaller lower courtyard offers a quieter spot with a picnic table, a hammock, and sometimes even a vegetable garden. The courtyards offer easy access to our dining hall, library, and common room. In the basement labyrinth underneath the college we have a small gym, a pottery studio, a printing press, student kitchen, buttery (aka the Dive), and an auditorium. New to the college is a room for yoga and other de-stressing strategies.

More important than the facilities are the people who make up this community. Davenport students are amazing, they come from an extraordinary diversity of backgrounds and they have a stunning set of talents. Even better, they mix their brilliance with generous camaraderie and kindness.

In addition to the students, there is a dedicated staff in the college’s administrative offices, in its dining hall, and on its beautiful grounds. Also, there are resident faculty living here in the college, as well as faculty with offices in the college, not to mention several dozen graduate affiliates in a variety of fields ranging from STEM disciplines to the arts.

4worldlovers:
Whether you are a current “PauliMur” or a member of the larger Yale community, we would like to invite you to be a part of one of the newest communities at Yale University. Please explore our website to learn more about Pauli Murray College—from our incredible administration and students, to our namesake Pauli Murray and our amazing new facilities.

If you have questions about move-in, please visit our Move-In FAQ page!

To learn more about our college, join our private Facebook Group (for Pauli Murray Students ONLY), follow our Instagram Account, and find us on Campus Groups!