Global: 'If This Can Happen to Yale, What About the Rest of Us?'

What the dissolution of the Yale-NUS partnership says about international education. ADVERTISEMENT [Academe Today Logo]( Did someone forward you this newsletter? [Sign up free]( to receive your own copy. First Thought Insights drawn weekly from Karin Fischer’s global-education newsletter, latitude(s). [Subscribe here](. When one of the most high-profile and ambitious partnerships in international education abruptly comes undone, it’s inevitable to wonder: What does this mean for colleges and their global engagement? As one observer said, “If this can happen to Yale, what about the rest of us?” Three weeks ago, the National University of Singapore announced that it was, essentially, breaking up with Yale, ending their pathbreaking joint liberal-arts college and absorbing it into a new honors college at the university. The decision was entirely NUS’s; Yale leaders have said they wanted to continue Yale-NUS College, although they have refrained from criticizing the closure, which will happen in 2025. In many ways, Yale-NUS is sui generis. Other colleges aren’t Yale, and most international partnerships don’t build entirely new institutions, with a new take on liberal-arts learning. Still, there are a few takeaways. [Read more from Karin Fischer in this week’s latitude(s).]( ADVERTISEMENT The Reading List - Rajika Bhandari is out with a new book, America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility. Karin [interviewed Rajika about her book and the issues facing international students]( last week during a book launch sponsored by the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. [Read a continuation of the interview in latitude(s).]( - The Senate parliamentarian has [ruled against including immigration provisions in the budget bill]( such as a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants. - A federal judge has [struck down a Trump-era H1-B rule]( that prioritized more highly paid applicants for visas. [Here’s some background]( on what the rule change would have meant for international graduates. Featured on Chronicle.com “While we were building the institution, the institution built us.” —Shaffique Adam, an associate professor of science who was one of Yale-NUS’s original hires, on how as a young academic he was given unusual resources and responsibility to imagine, then construct, a wholly new college. He compares the college to Silicon Valley start-ups like Netscape, innovators whose influence continues as their alumni go on to play key roles in other companies. Yale-NUS may cease to exist, he said, but it will live on through its graduates and its former faculty. [Read more from Karin in]( Chronicle]( SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE Enjoying the newsletter? [Subscribe today]( for unlimited access to essential news, analysis, and advice. CAMPUS EXTREMISM [‘We Crossed Many Lines’]( By Michael Vasquez [STORY IMAGE]( Led by Susan Rice’s son, the Stanford College Republicans now specialize in personal attacks. The university is facing demands to rein them in. SPONSOR CONTENT | UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE [A Shift Toward Collaborative Online International Learning]( ADMISSIONS [The Will to Test in a Test-Optional Era]( By Eric Hoover [STORY IMAGE]( Hundreds of colleges have suspended their ACT and SAT requirements. Many students won’t let them go. ADVERTISEMENT SPONSOR CONTENT | SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE [SEC Uses Athletics Platform to Celebrate, Support Conference Member Faculty]( JOB OPPORTUNITIES Apply for the top jobs in higher education and [search all our open positions](. NEWSLETTER FEEDBACK What did you think of today’s newsletter? [Strongly disliked]( | [It was ok]( | [Loved it]( This newsletter was sent to {EMAIL}. [Read this newsletter on the web](. [Manage]( your newsletter preferences, [stop receiving]( this email, or [view]( our privacy policy. © 2021 [The Chronicle of Higher Education]( 1255 23rd Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037