![]() The university offers a joint bachelor degree consisting of the NYU Shanghai degree, which is a degree conferred by the Ministry of Education in China, and the NYU New York degree, which the Chinese students receive at the same time. “But it’s not optional students can maybe choose not to do it or not turn up or not take the assessments, but if they do that they will end up with no degree or two useless pieces of paper which are not of any use in China,” Gow explained. Some have suggested the patriotic education course for Chinese students is an elective. But it also has been done in such a way that allows NYU to say ‘this is not part of our curriculum, and it is not part of our degree’,” Gow said. “They want to show that the university complies with norms just like everybody else. The Chinese side may now be keen to show in the new environment of ideological crackdown that there is no special status for NYU Shanghai, Gow and other academics said. NYU Shanghai’s initial licence was by far the shortest licence issued to any Sino-foreign joint venture university, with some obtaining initial licences of 30 years. “But unlike some other Sino-foreign joint venture institutions in China, they only had a 10-year initial licence fee and the Chinese authorities may have pushed this as a condition of renewing the licence fee.” Since NYU Shanghai was established as the first Sino-American university in 2012, “they have had five years without having to do this, which is unheard of” in higher education in China, Gow told University World News. ![]() “This looks like they’ve had to do this as part of their licence renewal to operate in China,” says Mike Gow, lecturer at Coventry University’s School of Strategy and Leadership in the United Kingdom, who previously taught at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, a Sino-British joint venture university, as well as at NYU Shanghai. While patriotic education is not compulsory for non-Chinese citizens, a few joint venture and branch campus universities had not run such courses due to sensitivity over Chinese government influence on the curriculum and the importance of being seen to maintain intellectual freedom to detractors in their own countries, academics said.īut a tightening grip on universities by the Communist Party and a renewed government push to promote party ideology and patriotism among young people has meant that NYU Shanghai has had to run the course since December last year, it was revealed this week by Motherboard, a technology section run by online news outlet Vice. NYU Shanghai, which is a stand-alone institution run as a joint venture between NYU and East China Normal University, did not run the civic education course, which is compulsory for all Chinese students at Chinese universities, for its first five graduating cohorts. Tweet New York University (NYU) Shanghai has added a compulsory ‘patriotic education’ course to its undergraduate degree offering as “a way to stay in China”, experts have said.
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