[May 2025 issue]

 

New Asia College and Yale University have jointly organised the New Asia College/Yale University Student Exchange Programme since 1993. The major objective of the programme is to enhance students’ understanding of the social, cultural and scientific issues of the two regions. College trustee Dr. Raymond Wong has generously supported the programme since 2015.

 

The theme of this year’s programme is “Reimagining Cities: Hong Kong and New Haven”. As part of the programme, a group of eight New Asia students visited New York City and Yale University from 25 January to 8 February 2025 and presented theme-related reports at a symposium at Yale. Yale students and teaching staff paid a reciprocal visit to our College from 9 to 22 March 2025.

 

During the Yale group’s visit to Hong Kong, talks, visits to NGOs, museums and the Legislative Council, etc. were arranged. From 14 to 16 March, they also visited Guangzhou, a city that combines traditional culture and modern development. One highlight was a symposium held on 13 March 2025 at the CUHK School of Architecture, at which Yale students gave presentations on the theme-related research reports.