Yale-NUS closure: Artistic legacies and loss in (de)liberation
about 32 months ago (10/06/2021)
Yale-NUS closure: Artistic legacies and loss in (de)liberation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Raphael Hugh October 6, 2021 By Clara Che Wei Peh and Tee Zhuo (2,500 words, 10-minute read) In August, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced unilaterally that Yale-NUS College would be shut down by 2025, marking what many see as a premature end to the partnership between Yale University and NUS that started in 2011. The months since have seen an outpouring of grief, anger, and resistance against the decision to close the liberal arts college, from the Yale-NUS community and far beyond. Speculations have been rife about the reasons behind the closure, fuelled by an absence of valid or even contradictory answers from NUS, and in turn countered by an impassioned war of words waged across the nation’s newspapers.