The Yale-NUS College plan reminds this Yale alumnus of the saying about a poker game: if you look around the table and don't see the patsy, it's probably you. Talking to other Yalies who know Singapore reveals I'm not the only one with doubts about the project.
"In all honesty, I do not support the partnership because I think that when we start to move away from [Yale's] core offering in New Haven, we do nothing more than franchise our name and commercialize the product," Nicky Nole, a 2006 Yale graduate in anthropology who has lived in Singapore for the past two years, says. Full story
