YALE University formally opened a controversial liberal arts college in tightly governed Singapore, saying there was demand for “critical thinking” in the city-state and other Asian nations.
The Yale-NUS College, a joint project with the National University of Singapore, had been criticised by faculty members of the leading US university due to Singapore’s restrictions on protests and on student political activity.
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