Yale Goes Global
Posted on June 7th, 2012 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
The Wall Street Journal interviews Edward A. Snyder, dean of the Yale School of Management.
WSJ: When people talk about the top U.S. undergraduate schools, they mention Harvard [University] and Yale in the same breath. For M.B.A.s, that list is usually Harvard [Business School], Stanford [Graduate School of Business] and [University of Pennsylvania’s] Wharton [School]. Can Yale join that triad?
Mr. Snyder: I would not be candid if I didn’t say that was the objective.
The game is on!
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6/7/2024 1:17 pm
Yale is already far ahead of Harvard in affirming that you can have a liberal-arts college in a place that lacks freedom of speech. Jim Sleeper’s latest has some wonderful quotes-for the faculty to call on Yale-NUS “to uphold civil liberty and political freedom on campus and in the broader society” seems to Levin to have “carried a sense of moral superiority that I found unbecoming.”)-and some bloodcurdling suggestions of financial conflicts of interest.
6/7/2024 1:53 pm
Hey, Harry, there’s our Commencement speaker in the same piece. Sorry I didn’t get the video link in there (all of this Jim Sleeper):
Take a look at this short video of yet another Yale Corporation member and Yale-NUS champion, Fareed Zakaria, interviewing Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsieng Loong at the Davos World Economic Forum last January, and notice the nuances of subservience: Zakaria, who would take to the pages of the Yale Daily News in April to disparage, as “provincial,” those faculty supporting the resolution criticizing Singapore’s abuses, never mentions Yale’s venture with Singapore in the January interview, nor does he ask Lee about any of Singapore’s human rights abuses.
The prime minister is a piece of work here — British-educated, well-buffed and modulated, dispensing pellets of charm, a studied dignity in informality, and sinuous liberal bromides, with just the right hint of tempered steel behind the smile.In this, he is not unlike what Zakaria used to be, but study Zakaria’s countenance and see the perfect mask of complicity and obeisance that recalls W. H. Auden’s observation, in the Europe of the 1930s, that “Intellectual disgrace stares from every human face.”
Good stuff!
6/7/2024 4:36 pm
Could the nuances of Fareed’s subservience come from his Ph.D studies at Harvard?
6/8/2024 7:44 pm
… a World of Difference
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/5/24/international-harvard-yale-singapore/