MCLC: Yale-Peking U program cancelled

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Anne Henochowicz <annemh at alumni.upenn.edu>
Subject: Yale-Peking U program cancelled
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Source: 
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Yale-Peking University Program Cancelled An exchange program between Yale
and Peking University (Beida) is to be cancelled because of “lower than
expected enrollment”
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/jul/25/yale-pku-program-be-canceled
/>, to which dissent among Yale faculty may have contributed. From Gavan
Gideon at Yale News:

In a statement Yale released Wednesday afternoon, the University cited
“lower than anticipated enrollments” as the reason for the program’s
cancellation. With only four students confirmed to participate in the
program this fall, administrators decided that “the PKU-Yale experience
would not be optimal for either students or faculty.”

“It is disappointing to all of us that after six years we could not
attract a critical mass for this outstanding program,” Edwards said in the
statement.

[…] An email sent by a faculty member on the program’s advisory committee
alleged that the was “extremely expensive for Yale,” and that its language
component was “notoriously weak,” making it difficult for Yale students to
re-enter the Chinese language curriculum upon returning to New Haven.

The program came under fire in December 2007 after ecology and
evolutionary biology professor Stephen Stearns ’67 sent a strongly worded
email to his students at PKU criticizing the widespread plagiarism he
witnessed among students and faculty while teaching two courses at the
university.