Editing Richard C. Levin (section)

===Yale under Levin===
During Levin's tenure, Yale's endowment grew from $3.2 billion to over $20 billion.<ref name="Fox News">{{cite news| url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/yale-president-stepping-down-after-20-years/ | work=Fox News | title=Yale president Levin stepping down after 20 years | date=2012-08-30}}</ref> Yale's admissions standards and academic prestige also recovered from a significant lull in the early 1990s since Levin's appointment. Applications to [[Yale College]] rose from fewer than 11,000 for the class entering in 1993 to 28,975 for the class entering in 2012,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W033_Fresh_Admissions.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-01-05 |archive-date=2010-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601190834/http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W033_Fresh_Admissions.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/mar/29/yale-offers-admission-1975-applicants/?cross-campus {{dead link|date=March 2021}}</ref> with the most recent classes reporting the highest range of standardized test scores for any college in America.<ref>http://premium.usnews.com/best-colleges {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref> Under Levin, Yale aggressively expanded its efforts to recruit international students and students from previously underrepresented regions of the United States.

Levin helped established a program for undergraduates in [[Beijing]] and increase participation in international work/study programs. Levin has made a special effort to expand Yale's engagement with [[China]] and was elected to the board of the [[National Committee on United States-China Relations]].

Levin was president during the largest building and renovation program since the 1930s, including all of the university's residential colleges. About 70 percent of the space on campus was partially or comprehensively renovated between 1993 and 2013.<ref name="Fox News" /> Levin approved the creation of [[Yale]]'s first two new [[residential college]]s since the 1960s with the purpose of increasing the undergraduate population from around 5,400 to over 6,000. The project was delayed due to the financial crisis, but construction was begun in 2013, shortly after Levin stepped down.

Levin vastly expanded the Yale campus with the creation of Yale's West Campus. The campus was created by the purchase of the 136-acre, 17-building [[Bayer Pharmaceutical]] campus in [[Orange, Connecticut]], seven miles from Yale's main campus. The purchase was completed for $107 million in 2007 and was described at the time as a "ready-made, state-of-the-art research facility".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://westcampus.yale.edu/about/history |title=History &#124; Yale West Campus |access-date=2013-11-15 |archive-date=2014-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329093747/http://westcampus.yale.edu/about/history |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Levin's administration worked to improve Yale University's relationship with its local workers. In 2003, Levin negotiated eight-year contracts with the [[Federation of Hospital and University Employees|university's unionized workers]] that provided health care, extensive paid leave, and cumulative raises ranging from 32% to 43%, although he has also fought strongly against new unionization drives by hospital workers, [[GESO|graduate employees]], and security guards.

Levin spearheaded the creation of the first liberal arts college in Asia, [[Yale-NUS College]], a joint venture between Yale University and the [[National University of Singapore]]. [[Yale]] initially faced strong criticism that Singapore's various restrictions on press freedom and public protests, as well as its anti-homosexuality policies, would undermine [[Yale-NUS]]'s liberal arts mission.