Society for College and University Planning
Governance: Yale University, NUS, and YaleNUS College in Singapore
"The corporation acted on its own."
The YaleNUSCollege is a collaborative effort of Yale University and the National University of Singapore. An issue of governance has arisen late in planning for this new campus. We’ll flip the first two paragraphs of Whose Yale College, by Elizabeth Redden of Inside Higher Ed, because we think that makes the issues clearer.
“If it took us longer than it should have to catch up with this, so be it,” said Christopher L. Miller, a professor of African American studies and French. “There is no statute of limitations on questions—good questions about serious issues affecting not just Yale-NUS College but (and this is my primary concern) Yale-New Haven.”
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Nearly one year ago, Yale University announced it had joined with the National University of Singapore to form Yale-NUS College—described in promotional materials as "the first new college to bear the Yale name in 300 years." Faculty at the original Yale College, in New Haven, want to know why they didn’t have greater say in such a momentous decision—and they’re making their questions and concerns known now.
“If it took us longer than it should have to catch up with this, so be it. There is no statute of limitations on questions—good questions about serious issues affecting not just Yale-NUS College but (and this is my primary concern) Yale-New Haven.”
YaleNUSCollege dean of faculty, Charles Bailyn, commented: "It is true that the Yale College faculty have never recorded an official vote on the project. Technically that's appropriate since Yale-NUS will not be giving Yale College degrees."
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