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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (177820)	9/6/2021 6:15:51 PM
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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (177820)	9/6/2021 9:45:48 PM
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<<travelling>> in the absence of travel, Singapore experiment in schooling ends economist.com Yale-NUS, Singapore’s first liberal-arts college, closes its doors Students are up in arms Sep 4th 2021 CLASSES THE next day were cancelled, the email said, and everyone was encouraged to attend a town hall instead. A wave of speculation rippled through the student body at Yale-NUS, a college set up in 2013 as a tie-up between Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS). At the meeting on August 27th administrators announced that the college’s programmes will be combined with another at NUS to form a new institution by 2022. When the current crop of first-years graduate, Yale-NUS will cease to exist. Listen to this storyEnjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Most undergraduate students in Singapore choose specialised courses of study, such as medicine or law. Some universities had begun experimenting with interdisciplinary curriculums but it was with Yale-NUS, the city-state’s first liberal-arts college, that Singapore signalled its commitment to a new approach. Its launch was billed as a grand experiment testing whether an American-style liberal-arts education could sink roots in Asia. The decision to close the college was made by NUS, which is consolidating six departments, Yale-NUS among them, into three new colleges. The restructuring, which affects about 18,000 students or half the student body, is in fact a mark of the university’s commitment to the liberal arts, argues Chan Heng Chee, a diplomat who sits on the college’s board. The purpose is to make “liberal-arts education more accessible [to Singaporeans] and more inclusive”, she says. Yale-NUS is “exclusive”, she argues. It admits about 250 students a year, 40% of whom are foreign. The new college will enroll twice as many students and will, if NUS fees are anything to go by, charge them less. Another reason to close the college was its “financial unsustainability”, says Ms Chan. Yale-NUS had hoped eventually to secure as much private funding as do top-tier American liberal-arts colleges, but by March had raised just a measly $320m. Concern about the financial model “started the conversation” about what to do with the college, says Ms Chan. But Pericles Lewis, the first president of Yale-NUS, notes that it had “a few years left” to achieve its fundraising targets, and could have doubled the number of students it admits. Some professors and students suspect there were other considerations at play. Political activism is frowned upon in Singapore, which has been ruled by the same party since 1959. Yale-NUS students were more likely to express their political views and were better organised than their peers at other universities, says Cherian George, the author of a recent report on academic freedom in Singapore. Ms Chan pooh-poohs the notion that the government was keen to muzzle mouthy students. The government, she says, knew what it was signing up for when it launched the college. At the opening of the new campus in 2015 Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister, said that the college would have “to adapt the Yale model to Asia”. Four years later the college appeared to do just that when it cancelled a course on dissent taught by a prominent playwright because, it said, it was not sufficiently rigorous. Responding to allegations that the college had caved to political pressure, Mr Lewis conducted an investigation which yielded no evidence of government coercion. Yet Ong Ye Kung, then the education minister, supported cancelling the course, declaring in Parliament that “political conscientisation”—when people become aware of how they are oppressed—“is not the taxpayer’s idea of what education means”. News of the closure came as a shock to students and teachers, who were not consulted. Neither was the college president, Tan Tai Yong, who was reportedly “gobsmacked and flabbergasted” when informed in July. During the virtual town hall, microphones were muted; students had to send questions via a mediator. At the end of the meeting, students could be heard shouting with frustration, according to the college newspaper. All they are likely to get in return for their “conscientisation” on this issue is silence. ¦ Corrections (September 3rd 2021): Pericles Lewis does not, as we originally wrote, sit on the board at Yale-NUS. And the college admits about 250 students a year, rather than the initially suggested maximum of 1,000. These have been corrected in the text. This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Lessons learnt"

To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (177820)	9/6/2021 9:51:32 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217786

Re <<travelling>> in the absence of travelling, Julliard expansion school in Tianjin of China has to make do - the instigators were way too conservative about what Sino-USA cooperation might accomplish. Heart-warming. The website & sight & sound is good tianjinjuilliard.edu.cn Would say the time to realisation has been China-speed Planning for the Juilliard expansion began in 2015. In 2017, ground was broken for the new campus, and in 2018, China’s Ministry of Education gave official approval for Tianjin Juilliard School. Beginning in 2019, the Tianjin Juilliard Ensemble started giving performance tours in China and South Korea. Tianjin Juilliard offered its first pre-college classes in 2019, and in 2020, the inaugural class of graduate students began their studies. juilliard-goes-to-china Juilliard Goes To China Michael T. Nietzel 06:00am EST Education I am a former university president who writes about higher education. Students rehearsing at the new Juilliard facility in Tianjin, China PC Wei He jpg for the Juilliard School The Juilliard School, the famed music, dance and drama school, has admitted its initial class of graduate students at its branch campus in Tianjin, China. The new Tianjin facility, about a 45-minute train ride from Beijing, is Juilliard’s first branch campus. The Tianjin Juilliard School (TJS) now also becomes the first performing arts institution in China to confer a U.S.- accredited Master of Music (MM) degree. The new operation also contains several other components: a Saturday pre-college program for students ages 8-18; continuing education programs for professionals and adult learners; public education programs for music learners of all ages; and public performances.The new Juilliard branch involves a partnership among The Juilliard School, the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area Administrative Commission, and the Tianjin Innovative Financial Investment Co. Juilliard is in charge of hiring senior administration as well as directing the academic and artistic curriculum. TJS offers a two-year Master of Music (MM) in one of three majors: orchestral studies, chamber music, or collaborative piano (instrumental). Its first class of 39 graduate students, which includes local students, U.S. students based in China, and students from other countries, began their studies in late fall of 2020. Of the first cohort, 61% are Chinese, and 39% are international students. Annual tuition for the program is $49,260 for international students, and 200,000 RMB (about $30,000 in U.S. dollars) for Chinese nationals. Some need-based scholarships are available. The published tuition at Juilliard in New York is also $49,260, but, according to the school, 90% of students receive financial aid. Prospective students go through an audition process, and they must provide the same application materials as required by The Juilliard School in New York. You can listen to the inaugural class perform Antoin Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 8 here. The faculty at TJS is a mix of resident artists, supplemented by visiting faculty from Juilliard in New York. Instruction and lessons are offered in ensemble, woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano and strings. TJS’s executive director and CEO is Alexander Brose, and the dean and artistic director is Wei He. Both have extensive experience in music performance education. Brose was previously the vice president for development at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Wei He was a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and artistic director of the annual San Francisco-Shanghai International Chamber Music Festival. TJS is located on a 350,000 square foot campus, designed by the New York architectural firm of Diller Scofidio +Renfro, and features spaces for performance, practice, research, and interactive exhibitions, along with communal areas designed to welcome the public into the creative process and performance of music. Included are 12 classrooms, 23 private teaching studios, and 86 practice rooms. The performance spaces include a 690-seat concert hall, a 300-seat recital hall and a 225-seat black box theater. Not only does the Tianjin venture give Juilliard a presence in the huge student market in China, it could pave the way for more international expansion. “The Tianjin Juilliard School has become a true and real center for cultural diplomacy in China, East Asia and around the globe – building bridges through the performing arts and encouraging a continuous exchange of artistic knowledge and understanding between China and United States,” said Joseph Polisi, President Emeritus, Chief China Officer of The Juilliard School, and the leader under whom the project originally took shape. “Since welcoming the inaugural class in Fall 2020, the impact of the school has been remarkable. In a short period of time, we have launched two important annual music festivals, developed numerous partnerships with peer institutions and invited renowned guest artists and student participation from around the world.” Planning for the Juilliard expansion began in 2015. In 2017, ground was broken for the new campus, and in 2018, China’s Ministry of Education gave official approval for Tianjin Juilliard School. Beginning in 2019, the Tianjin Juilliard Ensemble started giving performance tours in China and South Korea. Tianjin Juilliard offered its first pre-college classes in 2019, and in 2020, the inaugural class of graduate students began their studies. As part of its continuing education outreach, TJS offers programs for professional and pre-professional musicians and music teachers, including professional development workshops, teacher certification courses, and other resources to support teacher training and career development. “We are so pleased to be able to bring Juilliard’s artistic and educational excellence to China through the Tianjin Juilliard School,” said Damian Woetzel, President of The Juilliard School. “With this partnership, we now extend our ability to inspire new generations of musicians with unique experiences, cross-cultural collaborations, and educational values that they will bring to their future artistic lives." __________ Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is recognized as one of the world’s premier institutions for the education of artistic performers. Its mission is to “provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.” Located at Lincoln Center in New York City, Juilliard offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, drama (acting and playwriting), and music (classical, jazz, historical performance, and vocal arts). More than 800 artists from 44 states and 42 countries and regions are enrolled at Juilliard. metropolismag.com Aiming to Engage the Public, DS+R’s New Tianjin Juilliard School Pays Tribute to Its New York Counterpart By: Petra Loho The new Tianjin Juilliard School is a series of volumes abutting a horizontal lobby volume. Courtesy Zhang Chao Diller Scofidio + Renfro has recently completed a campus in China with communal spaces designed to welcome the public into the creative process and musical performances. The site lures students and visitors alike by blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space. The firm’s 2009 expansion of the private conservatory in New York City inspired the concept of increasing engagement with the public through openness and transparency. The New York location of the Juilliard School featured a lobby hangout area and spaces revealing school activities to the streets, a theme continued at the new Tianjin outpost. Around 30 percent of the New York location’s students come from outside the United States. “Juilliard was always an international institution,” president emeritus Joseph Polisi says about the school, which was founded in 1905, “but we weren’t what I would call a global institution.” Bridges crisscross the central lobby atrium and hold much of the building’s program. Courtesy Zhang Chao That has changed, as Tianjin, the Chinese metropolis of 16 million inhabitants, became home to Juilliard’s first overseas campus, located in the Binhai financial district. In fall 2020, The Tianjin Juilliard School (TJS) welcomed its first cohort of 39 graduate students from 11 countries. “Both an educational tool and a performance vessel, the building acts as a finely tuned and highly crafted instrument in and of itself,” says Charles Renfro, the DS+R partner-in-charge of the project. The 350,000-square-foot structure integrates four pavilions—an allusion to the structure of a symphony, which is made of the same number of movements—with connecting bridges. The pavilions contain the three central performance spaces set a level deep in the ground: a 690-seat concert hall, a 299-seat recital hall, and a 225-seat black box theater. Three of them house administrative offices in their upper levels. On the fourth level, above the main concert hall, a 2,900-square-foot orchestral rehearsal space opens up to a roof terrace. Spanning two levels, a 6,000-square-foot library offers reading rooms, reference sections, and multimedia stations, its open stacks visible through a glass floor from the reading room below. “By stacking all of these very specialized spaces together, we were able to keep the ground floor completely open,” Renfro says. Courtesy Zhang Chao A continuous stone pavement connects the 24,000-square-foot main lobby with an exterior plaza and bears out the connection of indoor and outdoor. Six entrances spread around the building invite the public to walk into the column-free lobby, which benefits from lightwells that introduce daylight. The lobby is crisscrossed by five glass-clad and soundproof-glazed bridges, which house 12 classrooms, 23 teaching studios, and 86 practice rooms. “For us, the most important aspect of the diagram was the elevation of all teaching, rehearsal, and practice spaces into a series of bridges that span between the pavilions,” Renfro explains. The chance to observe the students practice in one of these transparent spaces lets visitors linger and connect deeper with the Juilliard way of teaching and celebrating music. Courtesy Zhang Chao “For the first time in any conservatory that we know of, all the practice rooms are put on view,” Renfro points out. DS+R also connected the performance spaces to the surrounding urban context: By lifting the exterior envelope on the outside edges and installing eyebrow windows, the architects allow for views inside out and vice versa. TJS stands out as the first performing arts institution in China to confer a United States–accredited Master of Music degree. Designed for a maximum of 220 to 240 graduates, the school also offers public-facing programming and continuing education courses. “Every day, students spend countless hours in these rooms,” Renfro says. Ending on a high note, he added: “We wanted to make them humane spaces and beautiful spaces.” You may also enjoy “ Herzog & de Meuron Completes the Colossal M+ Museum in Hong Kong” Would you like to comment on this article? Send your thoughts to: comments@metropolismag.com Register here for Metropolis’s Think Tank Thursdays and hear what leading firms across North America are thinking and working on today.