Will students and faculty at Yale’s Singaporean affiliate be allowed to hold political protests on campus?
That’s unclear, says Pericles Lewis, the literature professor who stepped down from the Yale faculty July 1 to become the first president of Yale-NUS College. A joint venture between Yale University and the National University of Singapore, Yale-NUS broke ground this month and will begin enrolling students in 2013.
The specific question of whether Yale-NUS will allow on-campus political protest arises this week in a Wall Street Journal article, in which Lewis apparently answers “no”.... Full story
