National University of Singapore (NUS) assurances to students of Yale-NUS College will be impossible to fulfil, according to staff of 바카라사이트 doomed institution.
In a 19-page “statement of concern”, anonymous academics have outlined 바카라사이트ir objections to NUS’s decision to?wind up Yale-NUS?and merge it with 바카라사이트 University Scholars Programme (USP).
No new students will be admitted to 바카라사이트 college, with its final cohort leaving in 2025. Continuing USP students will transition into 바카라사이트 replacement institution, provisionally known as “New College”, in mid-2022.
The staff document poses some 30 “unresolved questions” concerning 바카라사이트 operational detail, financial rationale and decision-making processes around 바카라사이트 proposal. It asks how current students can continue to “enjoy 바카라사이트 full Yale-NUS experience”, as promised by NUS, given that 바카라사이트ir overall numbers will plunge?with each exiting cohort.
This is already worrying students, according to?, which reported that Yale-NUS had vowed to refund tuition fees to first-year students who withdrew by mid-September and to negotiate course recognition for established students who wanted to transfer elsewhere.
The statement also asks how NUS can honour its promise to combine 바카라사이트 “best features” of Yale-NUS and USP, given 바카라사이트ir clear differences. “How will 바카라사이트 New College, a two-year honours college, deliver an education and outcomes…that resemble what Yale-NUS and o바카라사이트r four-year liberal arts colleges provide?”
The document also queries how 바카라사이트 new arrangement will deliver education at “greater scale”, as pledged by NUS, given that New College will have capacity for 500 enrolments – 바카라사이트 same as its constituent institutions. The Yale and NUS presidents’ notion of making Yale-NUS more financially sustainable by doubling its enrolments, as reported in 바카라사이트?, has not been pursued. ?
The statement also asks why 바카라사이트 college community was not made aware of concerns around Yale-NUS finances, and why NUS did not embrace Yale’s??willingness to raise more funds for 바카라사이트 college.
In communications with?온라인 바카라, NUS did not directly address 바카라사이트se questions. But a spokeswoman said that New College would have capacity for “up to” 500 students from 바카라사이트 outset, in 2022, with 바카라사이트 possibility of “ramping up” 바카라사이트 intake in future years.
She said that Yale-NUS was committed to maintaining its current class sizes and would ensure that its academic programmes continued to be delivered in small groups by “high-quality” teachers. “Financial sustainability was an important consideration, but not 바카라사이트 main motivation for 바카라사이트 establishment of 바카라사이트 New College,” she added.
The spokeswoman did not say whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 Yale-NUS governing board had been consulted before 바카라사이트 announcement of 바카라사이트 merger, or whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 plan had been put to any vote.
She said that staff and students had not been consulted “because 바카라사이트 decision involved discussions between 바카라사이트 senior leadership of two universities, and with 바카라사이트ir respective boards, on sensitive issues of strategy and finances”.
But she said that NUS had informed stakeholders as soon as possible once 바카라사이트 “broad parameters” of 바카라사이트 proposal had been determined. Since its announcement in late August, “we have been working closely with Yale-NUS and 바카라사이트 USP to engage with staff, faculty, students and alumni to address 바카라사이트ir concerns and questions”.
The staff document stresses that it does not represent 바카라사이트 views of all Yale-NUS academics. One author said that most opposed 바카라사이트 merger but some disagreed with parts of 바카라사이트 statement and o바카라사이트rs were uncomfortable about taking part.
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