The Rise & Restructuring of Yale-NUS College
An International Liberal Arts Partnership in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pericles Lewis (National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 153 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 48-62 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_02063 |
| OpenAlex | W4399202169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) agreed in 2011 to open Yale-NUS College, an autonomous liberal arts college within NUS. As the College's first president, I recount in this essay some of the successes and challenges of creating the College, which opened in 2013, and the decision of NUS in 2021 to end the partnership as of 2025. I analyze the College's educational offerings, the political controversies surrounding its establishment and eventual closure, the finances of a small-scale, elite college within a large public university, and the broad social changes that contributed to the College's fate
Elite · General partnership · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · The arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Public Administration · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |