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Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Yale-NUS was established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore. It is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the few in Asia. The first class, the class of 2017, consisted of 157 students entering in 2013. Over several years, the college intends to increase its student body to 1,000 students and its teaching faculty to 100.〔http://yale-nus.edu.sg〕 Admission to the inaugural class began in 2012 and took place over four rounds, with an acceptance rate slightly below 4%. According to Yale-NUS College, the yield for the class entering in 2013 is 52%. About 60 percent of students at Yale-NUS are Singaporeans and 40 percent are international students. In 2013, the admission rate dropped to 3% and the demographic remained consistent. Apart from Singapore University of Technology and Design, Yale-NUS is the only other college in Singapore to follow a holistic admissions process similar to that followed by Yale and other American universities. Yale-NUS students are granted either a Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS) degree by NUS.〔()〕 The college currently offers 15 majors. It is the first institution outside New Haven, Connecticut, that Yale University has developed in its 300-year history, making Yale the first US Ivy League school to establish a college bearing its name in Asia. Like both Yale and NUS, Yale-NUS follows a need-blind admission policy and offers financial aid on a full-need basis. Yale-NUS also distributes scholarships to some admitted students based on academic merit.〔 The college's motto is "A community of learning, founded by two great universities, in Asia, for the world" and this phrase has been painted on a central wall at the temporary campus on the NUS grounds.〔()〕 The project has been criticized by members of the Yale faculty and alumni concerned that the relative lack of political freedom and restrictions on speech and protest in Singapore would negatively impact the rights of students. Singapore laws ban the formation of political parties or branches of political parties on university campuses, including at Yale-NUS.〔()〕 Some initial students and faculty have cited the establishment and prominence of various independent student societies, such as an LGBT advocacy organization, as evidence the Singapore government does not intend to interfere with student affairs. The Yale-NUS library contains literary works which are banned elsewhere in Singapore, and in 2014 the college sought to show the banned film ''To Singapore With Love'', however, the film's director did not agree to the screening. ==History== Under the presidency of Richard Levin, Yale University began developing a "internationalization" strategy that included expanding financial resources for international students and study abroad programs, founding the Yale World Fellows and the Center for the Study of Globalization, and joining the International Alliance of Research Universities. Administrators at Yale began considering international campus expansion in 2006, and initially approached the United Arab Emirates about establishing an arts institute on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, developed in collaboration with the university's arts professional schools. After refusing to grant Yale degrees to the proposed institute, the plan fell through. The concept of a joint liberal arts college was first discussed by Levin and National University of Singapore President Tan Chorh Chuan at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Eighteen months later, Levin and Yale Provost Peter Salovey circulated to the Yale faculty a prospectus for a liberal arts college in Singapore, outlining its vision, planning process, concerns, and an invitation for several open discussions. Among the given reasons for the initiative were "develop() a novel curriculum spanning Western and Asian cultures" and better preparing students for "an interconnected, interdependent global environment" Yale-NUS College was officially launched in April 2011 with a ceremony attended by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong〔()〕 but did not enroll its first class of students until 2013. In his speech, Lee said that, "This Yale-NUS College will give high-calibre students from Singapore another option to pursue degree at home, instead of going overseas. We hope it will also attract top students from the region and some of these, after graduation, we hope will have had fond memories and seen good opportunities and will strike roots in Singapore. Some may not, but even if they go home or go somewhere else, they will form a valuable network of friends of Singapore in their home countries and around the world." In May 2012, the leadership team was announced. In July 2012, the College held its ground-breaking ceremony. That summer began the incubation period for the newly recruited faculty, with two intensive two-week workshops in New Haven and Singapore. For the 2012-13 academic year, most faculty were in residence in New Haven to develop the common curriculum, courses for the majors, electives, and planning for academic policies. In December, in their first vote as a collegial body, the Yale-NUS faculty unanimously approved the following Core Statement on Freedom of Expression: "We are firmly committed to the free expression of ideas in all forms-a central tenet of liberal arts education. There are no questions that cannot be asked, no answers that cannot be discussed and debated. This principle is a cornerstone of our institution." In May 2013, it was announced that an additional dozen faculties have joined, including those tenured professors recruited from Smith College, Ginnell College, and the University of Iowa, and University of California, Santa Cruz. Like other "Asian tigers," Singapore reevaluated its plans for economic growth in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis and concluded that a more dynamic, innovative economy was necessary. Its leaders believed changes in the educational system were required to provide a citizenry capable of supporting these new modes of activity. Singapore’s ambition in higher education is expressed in the Minister of Education's phrase to be "the Boston of the East." To that end, higher education in Singapore has a history of establishing ties with leading foreign universities: Duke University partnered with NUS to create Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School; Singapore University of Technology and Design is developed with the help of MIT and Zhejiang University; and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music is a collaboration between NUS and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Other institutions who have campuses in Singapore include University of Chicago's Booth Business School, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Asia, and INSEAD. Throughout his 20-year tenure, Levin sought to expand Yale’s international reach, such as establishing the Yale World Fellows program which brings in emerging leaders from around the world, and the now defunct exchange program with Peking University in Beijing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK : Yale’s Agenda for 2009 through 2012 )〕 Although Yale has a long history with Asia, particularly its Yale-China Association, this is its first effort in a joint overseas project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yale-NUS College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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