Pareena Lawrence is a senior fellow at Yale University and is joining Yale-NUS in Spring 2021. Dr Lawrence completed her studies in economics, earning a PhD from Purdue University, then started her academic career as a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota Morris. Additionally, Dr Lawrence has over 15 years of administrative experience and has served as president and provost and dean, always centring her work on innovation and student and faculty development and success.
Yale-NUS College is a leading liberal art and science college in Singapore that was conceived as an idea in 2009 by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale University and after three-plus years of intense planning, officially opened its door to its inaugural class in Fall of 2013. The college draws upon the resources and traditions of its two parent institutions to pursue academic excellence through innovative teaching and research and by providing students with global opportunities for learning and development. It was founded with the vision to create a Community of Learning, Founded by two great universities, In Asia, for the world.
Yale-NUS is Singapore’s first liberal arts college hosts a fully residential program that integrates living and learning to provide all students with an immersive learning and growth experience. The College continues to grow and attracts students from across the world and has an enviable admit rate that is comparable to the world's top universities. The establishment of the College has forged a pioneering path in Asia to offer liberal arts and science education for a complex, interconnected world. The college boasts a unique common curriculum required of all students and draws on the traditions of the East and West, and is an exemplar of decolonizing knowledge. The college seeks to inspire innovation in higher education across the globe by developing creative interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving and providing students with transformative experiences.
The information about the College has been excerpted from the college and Yale's website.
Yale-NUS College is a leading liberal art and science college in Singapore that was conceived as an idea in 2009 by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale University and after three-plus years of intense planning, officially opened its door to its inaugural class in Fall of 2013. The college draws upon the resources and traditions of its two parent institutions to pursue academic excellence through innovative teaching and research and by providing students with global opportunities for learning and development. It was founded with the vision to create a Community of Learning, Founded by two great universities, In Asia, for the world.
Yale-NUS is Singapore’s first liberal arts college hosts a fully residential program that integrates living and learning to provide all students with an immersive learning and growth experience. The College continues to grow and attracts students from across the world and has an enviable admit rate that is comparable to the world's top universities. The establishment of the College has forged a pioneering path in Asia to offer liberal arts and science education for a complex, interconnected world. The college boasts a unique common curriculum required of all students and draws on the traditions of the East and West, and is an exemplar of decolonizing knowledge. The college seeks to inspire innovation in higher education across the globe by developing creative interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving and providing students with transformative experiences.
The information about the College has been excerpted from the college and Yale's website.
