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Welcome to the official website for JE, Yale’s oldest residential college. Below is information about college history, college activities, and the people who work to make JE the unique, exciting place that it is.
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. JE's residential quadrangle was the first to be completed in Yale's residential college system, and was opened to undergraduates in 1933.
We are delighted to greet you as valued members of the Jonathan Edwards College Class of 2028. Members of JE are called Spiders because the college’s namesake, 18th-century theologian Jonathan Edwards, wrote an essay about the glorious web-spinning creatures.
Jonathan Edwards College began during the academic year 1932-33 when Professor Robert Dudley French, the first Master, appointed eight members of the faculty to be the first fellows of the College.
In 1933, he became the namesake of Jonathan Edwards College, the first of the 12 residential colleges of Yale, and The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University was founded to provide scholarly information about Edwards' writings.
Jonathan David Edwards, CBE (born 10 May 1966) is a British former triple jumper. He is an Olympic, double World, European, European indoor and Commonwealth champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995. At his record-breaking peak, Edwards was widely regarded as the greatest male triple-jumper in history.
Paul North. Maurice Natanson professor of Germanic Languages and Literature and Head of Jonathan Edwards College. paul.a.north@yale.edu. +1 (203) 432-0782. 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
