Jonathan Edwards College

Jonathan Edwards College
Residential college at Yale University
Coat of arms of Jonathan Edwards College
University	Yale University
Location	68 High Street
Nickname	JE or J.E.
Motto	JE SUX (Latin)
Established	1933
Named for	Jonathan Edwards
Colors	Green and White
Sister college	Eliot House (Harvard)
Master	W. Mark Saltzman
Dean	Christina Ferando
Undergraduates	427 (2013-2014)
Mascot	Spider
Called	Spiders
Fellows	257
Website	www.yale.edu/je

Jonathan Edwards College (informally JE) is a residential college at Yale University. It is named for theologian and minister Jonathan Edwards, a 1720 graduate of Yale College. Opened to undergraduates in 1933, JE is one of the original eight residential colleges donated by Edward Harkness. It is also among the smallest of Yale's residential colleges, by both footprint and undergraduate membership.

JE's residential quadrangle was the first to be completed in Yale's residential college system. Because its design employed buildings finished before the Residential College Plan was adopted, it is stylistically eclectic, but predominantly in the Collegiate Gothic style popularized at Yale by the Memorial Quadrangle.

In 1930, Yale President James Rowland Angell announced a "Quadrangle Plan" for Yale College, establishing small collegiate communities in the style of Oxford and Cambridge in order to foster more social intimacy among students and faculty, relieve dormitory overcrowding, and reduce the influence of on-campus fraternities and societies. Professor Robert Dudley French was one of the earliest advocates of this plan and visited Oxford and Cambridge to study aspects of their college systems. In 1930, Angell appointed him Master of Jonathan Edwards College, the first such appointment at Yale. French subsequently selected eight members of the faculty to be the first fellows of the college. These men were chosen because they combined distinction in both teaching and scholarship, and because of their individuality and diversity of interests.

James Gamble Rogers, Yale's campus planner and architect of eight of the residential colleges, selected the site for JE to incorporate two dormitories he had previously designed for Yale College. Construction on JE's original buildings was completed in 1932. In September 1933, JE opened to its first class of students.