SINGAPORE: Two programmes at the National University of Singapore (NUS) – Yale-NUS College and the University Scholars Programme (USP) – will be combined into a single new college from 2022.
In a press release, the university said students of the new college will read a new common curriculum adapted from “the best of both the USP and Yale-NUS foundations”, enhanced with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) elements.
Graduating students from this new college will earn degrees conferred by their respective home school or faculty.
The programme will also retain a feature of the USP, where students can access the full range of majors, second majors, minors and specialisations offered across NUS.
The USP accepted its first intake in 2001. In 2011, the programme moved to UTown after its residential college Cinnamon College was established.
The new college will welcome its first intake of up to 500 students in the academic year of 2022. Students currently enrolled in the USP will transit to the new college that year.
Students who matriculated into Yale-NUS in the academic year of 2021 will form the last batch of students from the college, graduating in 2025.
All current Yale-NUS students including the last cohort will “continue to enjoy the full Yale-NUS experience” and earn the same degree conferred by NUS as previous students, the university said in the press release.
“Allowing students the flexibility to build their own learning portfolio and achieve their desired breadth and depth across diverse fields, the New College will offer greater access to multiple pathways and combinations in areas of specialisations.
“Students will experience the model of immersive and interdisciplinary learning characterised by flexible curriculum, residential living and small group teaching.”
Yale-NUS was established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and NUS, launched as Singapore’s first liberal arts college.
Students of the college spend four years in a residential college at UTown, and they graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours or a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from the college, awarded by NUS.
Yale University will continue to play “an advisory role” in the new college as a pioneering member of its international advisory panel, said NUS president Professor Tan Eng Chye.
“Yale takes great pride in the accomplishments of Yale-NUS College — a pioneering partnership between two leading universities to create a residentially based liberal arts college,” said Yale president Professor Peter Salovey.
“I want to offer my best wishes for the new college and express our gratitude for the generous support of the Government of Singapore in making it possible for us to partner in the creation of a model of liberal arts education that is regarded as one of the most innovative in the world — one whose DNA will live on, we trust, in new and exciting ways.”
Yale-NUS will remain open and continue running its academic, co-curricular and research programmes until the end of the academic year of 2024 to 2025, said NUS in the press release.
A New College Planning Committee will continue the plan to develop the new college, chaired by NUS senior deputy president and provost Professor Ho Teck Hua, comprising leaders from both USP and Yale-NUS.
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In a press release, the university said students of the new college will read a new common curriculum adapted from “the best of both the USP and Yale-NUS foundations”, enhanced with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) elements.
Graduating students from this new college will earn degrees conferred by their respective home school or faculty.
The programme will also retain a feature of the USP, where students can access the full range of majors, second majors, minors and specialisations offered across NUS.
The USP accepted its first intake in 2001. In 2011, the programme moved to UTown after its residential college Cinnamon College was established.
The new college will welcome its first intake of up to 500 students in the academic year of 2022. Students currently enrolled in the USP will transit to the new college that year.
Students who matriculated into Yale-NUS in the academic year of 2021 will form the last batch of students from the college, graduating in 2025.
All current Yale-NUS students including the last cohort will “continue to enjoy the full Yale-NUS experience” and earn the same degree conferred by NUS as previous students, the university said in the press release.
“Allowing students the flexibility to build their own learning portfolio and achieve their desired breadth and depth across diverse fields, the New College will offer greater access to multiple pathways and combinations in areas of specialisations.
“Students will experience the model of immersive and interdisciplinary learning characterised by flexible curriculum, residential living and small group teaching.”
YALE UNIVERSITY TO PLAY "ADVISORY ROLE"
Yale-NUS was established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and NUS, launched as Singapore’s first liberal arts college.
Students of the college spend four years in a residential college at UTown, and they graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours or a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours from the college, awarded by NUS.
Yale University will continue to play “an advisory role” in the new college as a pioneering member of its international advisory panel, said NUS president Professor Tan Eng Chye.
“Yale takes great pride in the accomplishments of Yale-NUS College — a pioneering partnership between two leading universities to create a residentially based liberal arts college,” said Yale president Professor Peter Salovey.
“I want to offer my best wishes for the new college and express our gratitude for the generous support of the Government of Singapore in making it possible for us to partner in the creation of a model of liberal arts education that is regarded as one of the most innovative in the world — one whose DNA will live on, we trust, in new and exciting ways.”
Yale-NUS will remain open and continue running its academic, co-curricular and research programmes until the end of the academic year of 2024 to 2025, said NUS in the press release.
A New College Planning Committee will continue the plan to develop the new college, chaired by NUS senior deputy president and provost Professor Ho Teck Hua, comprising leaders from both USP and Yale-NUS.
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