2020, NUS unveiled its plans for an interdisciplinary college, the College of Humanities and Sciences, allowing students to take courses from both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The new college took in its first intake in 2021. As part of a broader plan to introduce interdisciplinary colleges, in 2021, Tan announced that Yale-NUS College would be closed by 2025, with 2021 intake of freshmen being the last intake. The college would also be merged with NUS' University Scholars Programme to offer a new cirriculum. The decision was unilaterally made by NUS, and came as a surprise to Yale-NUS' students and faculty, NUS' faculty, and Yale. More than 10,000 people had signed a petition calling for the reversal of the decision. Questions about the decision filed in the Singapore Parliament by various members of parliament were answered on 13 September 2021. Honours and awards Tan received the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam, Emas (Public Administration Medal, Gold) in Singapore's National Day Awards 2014. He has been a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science since 2011. He was conferred the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal by the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association in 2018, and received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton, UK in the same year. Tan was conferred the title of Knight of the French Order of the Legion of Honour on 5 July 2022, in recognition of his distinguished contributions in education and research. Selected works References External links Tan Eng Chye Personal Web Page The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Eng-Chye Tan National University of Singapore President Biography National University of Singapore alumni Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Presidents of National University of Singapore Singaporean mathematicians Living people Singaporean people of Chinese descent Year of birth missing (living people)