I witnessed the power of asking why not as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences when this space was largely emptied by a pandemic and quieted by uncertainty.
We want to focus especially on the approaches professors take, their teaching methods, it is far different than what students are used to in high school and even in liberal arts college.
So a few months ago, I was giving a talk at a small liberal arts college, and a student came up to me afterwards and he said, kind of shyly, " So, I tried your study, and it didn't work."
If a college is a liberal arts college, it's going to be focused on offering a robust undergraduate education in, well, the liberal arts: the social and natural sciences, the humanities, and arts.
Some universities had begun experimenting with interdisciplinary curriculums but it was with Yalenus, the city-state's first liberal-arts college, that Singapore signalled its commitment to a new approach.
In recent years, however, there are rumors that the hall will be sold by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the central administration of the University.
Yale-NUS had hoped eventually to secure as much private funding as do toptier American liberal-arts colleges, but by March had raised just a measly $320m.
Instead he insisted on applying only to Reed College, a private liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, that was one of the most expensive in the nation.