True town halls are an exercise in participatory democracy, where everyone can see and contribute to decisions being made.
Yale-NUS students can take NUS courses and use NUS facilities, with some limitations, but the opposite is not usually true.
Tenured faculty members will retain their positions at NUS, although not necessarily in the honors college, and those on the tenure track will remain under consideration for promotion.
Criticisms from Yale faculty members appeared to die down after the college took in its pioneer batch in 2013 and students praised the rigorous liberal arts education they were receiving.