Welcome to the new faces of Yale College! Today’s ceremony was the official beginning to your collegiate experience. Four years from now, you will gather together for a similar event on the eve of graduation with your proud families, and with those who began as strangers and became dear friends. As Dean Chun says, “You belong to Yale, and Yale belongs to you.” Music by Something Extra, an all-women a cappella group founded in 1977 Watch the full Opening Assembly, official beginning of the colleg

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John Stuart Gordon, curator at the Yale University Art Gallery, shows us the historical and ceremonial objects of inaugurations at Yale University. In this video, learn about the university seal. | Yale University

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A new chapter begins. On Monday, Yale welcomed its newest students in a pair of ceremonies on Cross Campus: the Opening Assembly for the Yale College Class of 2029 and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences matriculation ceremony. During the matriculation ceremony, President Maurie McInnis reflected on her own student experience at Yale. And at Opening Assembly, she urged the new undergraduates to lead with empathy and openness: “In this moment of transition, in the face of uncertainty and ins