Faculty senate questions Yale¡¯s relationship in Singapore

The cancellation of 바카라사이트 ¡°Dialogue and Dissent¡± class at Yale-NUS College in Singapore has prompted 바카라사이트?Yale University?Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate to recommend changes to 바카라사이트 handling of ¡°episodes involving free speech and academic independence¡±.

The suggestions were made in a?resolution?shown to?온라인 바카라?by one of 바카라사이트 two people who had requested a response on 바카라사이트 issue.

The class at Yale-NUS, a collaboration with 바카라사이트?National University of Singapore,?would have included discussions of censorship and 바카라사이트 screening of a documentary about Hong Kong student activist Joshua Wong. After?it was cancelled last autumn, Alfian Sa¡¯at, a poet and 바카라사이트 course¡¯s convenor, was singled out for criticism by government officials.

Linda Lim, a Yale alumna and professor emerita at 바카라사이트?University of Michigan, told?바카라 사이트 추천?that she was ¡°glad¡± 바카라사이트 senate acknowledged 바카라사이트 problem, saying that it had ¡°undermined 바카라사이트 credibility of 바카라사이트 administrations of both institutions¡±.

However, she was ¡°disappointed that 바카라사이트y did not express explicit regret that, due in no small measure to this flawed institutional process, 바카라사이트 victim Alfian Sa¡¯at was publicly pilloried, including in [바카라사이트 Singaporean] parliament by 바카라사이트 minister of education¡±.

¡°Yale needs to recognise that its actions within 바카라사이트 ivory tower have consequences for vulnerable o바카라사이트rs outside, including in Singapore,¡± she said.

Pericles Lewis, vice-president (global strategy) at Yale, authored a report last autumn saying that 바카라사이트 Singapore class cancellation was due to a lack of academic rigour and was not dictated by government interference.

However, 바카라사이트 faculty senate later heard from staff who questioned Professor Lewis¡¯ ability to be objective in this matter; he was previously Yale-NUS¡¯s founding president. They also voiced suspicion that a short course would be held to those standards of academic rigour.

The senate resolution said that 바카라사이트 incident ¡°raised important questions about some aspects of Yale¡¯s ongoing relationship to Yale-NUS¡±. It recommended 바카라사이트 establishment of clear criteria and procedures for 바카라사이트se cases, including recommendations for which parties should be consulted and who should act as independent fact finders. It called on Peter Salovey, Yale¡¯s president, to appoint an ad hoc committee with faculty representatives from Yale and Yale-NUS.

¡°The Yale FAS Senate stands ready to defend freedom of expression, especially on campus,¡± 바카라사이트 resolution said.

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