Yale New Haven Chinese School at SCSU

A letter to the parents

June 18, 2006

Dear Parents,

With the help of Prof. Liu Yan and Prof. Cheng Xiaojun, parents and faculty members from South Connecticut State University and thanks to the enthusiastic support from Dr. Linda Olson, and Ellen Beatty, Associate Vice President for SCSU, our school has secured an approval for using SCSU as our new SCSU campus, starting from the fall semester of 2006. This is an exciting moment. I would like to summarize some important facts about this move.

1. Conditions:

· The school changes its name to Yale-New Haven Chinese School at SCSU

· Chinese School will carry insurance covering all students on campus during the school hours.

· SCSU will provide classrooms as well as space for parent activities

· SCSU will provide parking space for parents

· Chinese school will help host a class with non-heritage students, providing a teacher or helping to find one

· Chinese School will pay a lump-some fee (about the same we are currently paying Yale). The number is set at:$3000 per semester or $6000 for 2 semesters, for classroom privileges.

2. Why we need to MOVE:

· Constant conflict with Yale Music School concerts or recitals in the same building

· Limited by Yale’s calendar

· Limited space for parents

· Limited by Yale’s parking

· Complaints about the transportation congestion caused by the School.

3. Advantages of the New Campus

· Ample classrooms

· More flexible and relatively longer semesters (1-3 weeks more per semester)

· Adequate activity space for parents. Now we can organize parent activities such as dancing, singing, card playing. We are searching for an open basketball course near SCSU so that parents play basketball while the kids are doing there things.

Dear parents, this is an exciting move. We would like to ask parents to take advantage of this opportunity to organize their own activities, such as lectures on family finance, real properties, taxes, dental, health care, facial beauty, and activities such as dancing, singing, and ball games.

Those who are interested, please contact me or provide any ideas you think that might help improve parent involvement.

Best,

Mu Ling

Chinese School

ling.mu@yale.edu