Another reason to close the college was its "financial unsustainability", says Ms Chan.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.Concern about the financial model "started the conversation" about what to do with the college, says Ms Chan.

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陈冯富珍表示，关闭该学院的另一个原因是其“财务无法运转”。耶鲁大学-新加坡国立大学曾希望获得和美国顶尖文理学院一样多的私人资助，但到3月份仅筹集了可怜的3.2亿美元。陈冯富珍表示，对财务模式的担忧“引发了有关如何处理这所大学的讨论”。

But Pericles Lewis, the first president of Yale-NUS, who also sits on the board, notes that it had "a few years left" to achieve its fundraising targets, and could have doubled the number of students it admits.Some professors and students suspect there were other considerations at play.Political activism is frowned upon in Singapore, which has been ruled by the same party since 1959.

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但是耶鲁大学-新加坡国立大学的第一任校长，同时也是董事会成员的伯里克利·刘易斯指出，耶鲁大学还有“几年时间”来实现筹款目标，并且本可以将招收的学生数量增加一倍。一些教授和学生怀疑还有其他因素在起作用。新加坡自1959年以来一直由同一个政党统治，政治激进主义在新加坡是不受欢迎的。

Yale-NUS students were more likely to express their political views and were better organised than their peers at other universities, says Cherian George, the author of a recent report on academic freedom in Singapore.Ms Chan poohpoohs the notion that the government was keen to muzzle mouthy students. The government, she says, knew what it was signing up for when it launched the college.

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最近一份关于新加坡学术自由的报告的作者谢里安·乔治说，耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的学生比其他大学的学生更爱表达自己的政治观点，组织性也更强。然而陈女士对于“政府想要堵住多嘴学生的嘴”这一说法表示很不赞同。她说，政府在创办这所大学的时候就知道自己要做什么。