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For Release on December 4, 2012
For more information, please contact:
Cary Nelson, [email protected], 217-356-0649 (H)
Marjorie Heins, [email protected], 212-496-1311 or 917-566-1659 (c)
Joan Bertin, [email protected]
Washington, DC-The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) today issued an open letter to the Yale University community expressing growing concern about the character and impact of the university’s collaboration with the Singaporean government in establishing Yale-National University of Singapore College.
The letter raises questions about the possibility of true academic freedom in an authoritarian country, about the specific measures that Yale will take to protect the freedom of faculty, staff, and students, and about the lack of transparency that has characterized the planning process. It recommends that the Yale Corporation release documents and agreements related to the plan to establish the Yale-National University of Singapore campus and establish genuinely open forums in which plans can be reviewed, discussed, and modified as necessary.
Among the many issues that might be reviewed are these:
The open letter is available on the AAUP website at http://www.aaup.org/news/2012/open-letter-aaup-yale-community .
The American Association of University Professors is a nonprofit charitable and educational organization that promotes academic freedom by supporting tenure, academic due process, and standards of quality in higher education. The AAUP has approximately 47,000 members at colleges and universities throughout the United States.