SHoP Breaks Ground on New Fulbright University in Vietnam

[Viet]

• 7 June, 2019 by Eric Baldwin

SHoP Architects has broken ground on Fulbright University Vietnam, the country’s first independent, not-for profit institution of higher education. Formed as part of a 15-hectare flagship campus, the project is located within Saigon High Tech Park in District 9 of Ho Chi Minh City. The university was designed to serve Vietnamese society through innovative teaching programs and research aimed at supporting Vietnam’s continued development.

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Fulbright University's campus is designed by SHoP after an international competition in 2017 to establish a master plan for the project. The first development phase for the flagship campus is to be completed by 2022 to provide a new home for students. The academic and student life buildings and central lawn form the nucleus of the campus in phase 1, from which Fulbright will expand in subsequent phases. The main gateway building located at the head of the lawn will house a distinctive amphitheater located at center of the space, as well as the student center and library.

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“We at Fulbright are excited to see the efforts of planning, fundraising and negotiation merge into this realization. The university has always made a priority of providing competencies-based, experiential learning opportunities for our students. This flagship campus affords us opportunities for growth in these areas through innovative, newer technologies and flexible learning spaces,” said Dam Bich Thuy, President of Fulbright University Vietnam.

Water features play an important role in the landscaping of the Fulbright campus. Rain is a key aspect of life in Ho Chi Min City and water management is critical to the resiliency of the campus and the project’s goals of environmental stewardship. The Fulbright buildings celebrate this key feature of the local environment, integrating drainage and water reclamation into visible design elements throughout the campus and the landscape.

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“We are thrilled to break ground on this world-class university. The opportunity to collaborate with the Fulbright team to develop the university’s programs and spaces at the same time is both an honor and an exciting challenge, and we look forward to creating a beautifully crafted and modern campus that serves its students through innovative teaching programs,” said Gregg Pasquarelli, a Founding Principal at SHoP Architects.

The campus is designed as a primary teaching tool in and of itself—an example of sustainable planning and engineering practices that acts as a model for responsible growth both locally and internationally. SHoP is benchmarking the project against other comparable global institutions and seeking LEED and LOTUS accreditation.

https://www.archdaily.com/918614/shop-breaks-ground-on-new-fulbright-university-in-vietnam

 

[Viet]

A giant US university, that is said founded on the model of Havard Kennedy University.

Some would say US imperialism has returned to Vietnam.

 

[cochine]

A giant US university, that is said founded on the model of Havard Kennedy University.

Some would say US imperialism has returned to Vietnam.

cold war is over.

In cold war time China had sided to Imperialism from time 1972, up to now ...

 

[Viet]

cold war is over.

In cold war time China had sided to Imperialism from time 1972, up to now ...

True. This university will bring an academic revolution to Vietnam.

Students of Co-Design Year

Professor Samhitha Raj
She teaches at the university.

@Nilgiri

 

[Nilgiri]

True. This university will bring an academic revolution to Vietnam.

Students of Co-Design Year

Professor Samhitha Raj
She teaches at the university.

@Nilgiri

Relations go from strength to strength! Yes... Education is definitely a key area in this for sure for both countries to learn from each other.

You are our "dost" (brotherly-friend) you see :

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/wa...o-honour-indian-president-kovind-1944303.html

 

[AViet]

I guess only South Vietnamese, who look up every things by foreigners, will attend this kind of university.

All foreign universities in the North Vietnam (like RMIT) fail because only students with poor academic records at high schools and cannot enter national universities, will register.

Western media, no doubt, will blah blah that the best students of Vietnam are studying at Western universities in Hanoi and HCM or going abroad, but the opposite is true.

 

[Han Patriot]

I guess only South Vietnamese, who look up every things by foreigners, will attend this kind of university.

All foreign universities in the North Vietnam (like RMIT) fail because only students with poor academic records at high schools and cannot enter national universities, will register.

Western media, no doubt, will blah blah that the best students of Vietnam are studying at Western universities in Hanoi and HCM or going abroad, but the opposite is true.

The same in China, we have a few of these foreign jv unis, unless jv with top Chinese unis, these are just money vacuums for suckers. Realise the indic professor there, the cheapest kinda lecturers around.

They just regurgitate the textbook and no real research is done there

 

[Viet]

I guess only South Vietnamese, who look up every things by foreigners, will attend this kind of university.

All foreign universities in the North Vietnam (like RMIT) fail because only students with poor academic records at high schools and cannot enter national universities, will register.

Western media, no doubt, will blah blah that the best students of Vietnam are studying at Western universities in Hanoi and HCM or going abroad, but the opposite is true.

And how are Vietnamese universities in the international rankings now? One word: bad.

This US university will be the VN’s Havard. Or at least I hope so.

 

[AViet]

And how are Vietnamese universities in the international rankings now? One word: bad.

This US university will be the VN’s Havard. Or at least I hope so.

Never expect any foreigner to bring you things you cannot create by yourself. You South Vietnamese always have such way of thinking, that is why you always fail and always are the losers. Before you expected that American troops would fight communists for you, now you expecting that foreigners would bring you quality education, while you never believe in yourselves and keep inferior complex

It is true that ranking of Vietnamese universities are not high. However, the ranking criteria is still questionable, as they tend to rank countries which affiliate with West generally higher. Even Phillipines or Indian universities can be ranked higher than China, Russia or North Korean universities.

Therefore, I would not bother much about the ranking. In addition, the research (although very few indeed) are normally conducted in Vietnamese language and hence not always recognized. However, it is still better than any JV universities, which have no research at all. All they teach are just copied curriculum from Western universities, whose quality is in doubt as well.

Anyway, we will see within 5 years.

Regarding the inferior complex of Southern Vietnamese, I once sit on a flight next to one. He said that only foreign pilots could land on this rough airport and Vietnamese pilots dare not. I replied that Vietnamese pilots must be among the world's best, because only Vietnamese pilots who could have had extensive dog fight with American pilots (even more than Allies pilots).

I believe no where in this world are there such brave and skilled pilots as described below:

On 3 January 1968, a MiG-21 pilot, Ha Van Chuc, alone entered into battle with 36 American planes and claimed shot down one F-105 Thunderchief[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21

With such mentality, I believe South Vietnamese pilots can never be as skilled as North Vietnamese pilots, although the former can graduate from the world's best pilot training schools and the latter only attends training school in Vietnam.

 

[cochine]

Never expect any foreigner to bring you things you cannot create by yourself. You South Vietnamese always have such way of thinking, that is why you always fail and always are the losers. Before you expected that American troops would fight communists for you, now you expecting that foreigners would bring you quality education, while you never believe in yourselves and keep inferior complex

It is true that ranking of Vietnamese universities are not high. However, the ranking criteria is still questionable, as they tend to rank countries which affiliate with West generally higher. Even Phillipines or Indian universities can be ranked higher than China, Russia or North Korean universities.

Therefore, I would not bother much about the ranking. In addition, the research (although very few indeed) are normally conducted in Vietnamese language and hence not always recognized. However, it is still better than any JV universities, which have no research at all. All they teach are just copied curriculum from Western universities, whose quality is in doubt as well.

Anyway, we will see within 5 years.

Regarding the inferior complex of Southern Vietnamese, I once sit on a flight next to one. He said that only foreign pilots could land on this rough airport and Vietnamese pilots dare not. I replied that Vietnamese pilots must be among the world's best, because only Vietnamese pilots who could have had extensive dog fight with American pilots (even more than Allies pilots).

I believe no where in this world are there such brave and skilled pilots as described below:

On 3 January 1968, a MiG-21 pilot, Ha Van Chuc, alone entered into battle with 36 American planes and claimed shot down one F-105 Thunderchief[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21

With such mentality, I believe South Vietnamese pilots can never be as skilled as North Vietnamese pilots, although the former can graduate from the world's best pilot training schools and the latter only attends training school in Vietnam.

You are idiot Hua Chinese ! stop troll here kid. in fact North Vietnamese do know well about characters, mentality of Chinese.

 

[Viet]

Never expect any foreigner to bring you things you cannot create by yourself. You South Vietnamese always have such way of thinking, that is why you always fail and always are the losers. Before you expected that American troops would fight communists for you, now you expecting that foreigners would bring you quality education, while you never believe in yourselves and keep inferior complex

It is true that ranking of Vietnamese universities are not high. However, the ranking criteria is still questionable, as they tend to rank countries which affiliate with West generally higher. Even Phillipines or Indian universities can be ranked higher than China, Russia or North Korean universities.

Therefore, I would not bother much about the ranking. In addition, the research (although very few indeed) are normally conducted in Vietnamese language and hence not always recognized. However, it is still better than any JV universities, which have no research at all. All they teach are just copied curriculum from Western universities, whose quality is in doubt as well.

Anyway, we will see within 5 years.

Regarding the inferior complex of Southern Vietnamese, I once sit on a flight next to one. He said that only foreign pilots could land on this rough airport and Vietnamese pilots dare not. I replied that Vietnamese pilots must be among the world's best, because only Vietnamese pilots who could have had extensive dog fight with American pilots (even more than Allies pilots).

I believe no where in this world are there such brave and skilled pilots as described below:

On 3 January 1968, a MiG-21 pilot, Ha Van Chuc, alone entered into battle with 36 American planes and claimed shot down one F-105 Thunderchief[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21

With such mentality, I believe South Vietnamese pilots can never be as skilled as North Vietnamese pilots, although the former can graduate from the world's best pilot training schools and the latter only attends training school in Vietnam.

Why reinvent the wheels?
Vinfast acquires technology of BMW to build domestic cars.
What’s wrong to copy the Havard?
The president of Fulbright university is Vietnamese. That’s ok. A dean of Havard is present in the management board: Cherry Murry.

 

[Han Patriot]

Never expect any foreigner to bring you things you cannot create by yourself. You South Vietnamese always have such way of thinking, that is why you always fail and always are the losers. Before you expected that American troops would fight communists for you, now you expecting that foreigners would bring you quality education, while you never believe in yourselves and keep inferior complex

It is true that ranking of Vietnamese universities are not high. However, the ranking criteria is still questionable, as they tend to rank countries which affiliate with West generally higher. Even Phillipines or Indian universities can be ranked higher than China, Russia or North Korean universities.

Therefore, I would not bother much about the ranking. In addition, the research (although very few indeed) are normally conducted in Vietnamese language and hence not always recognized. However, it is still better than any JV universities, which have no research at all. All they teach are just copied curriculum from Western universities, whose quality is in doubt as well.

Anyway, we will see within 5 years.

Regarding the inferior complex of Southern Vietnamese, I once sit on a flight next to one. He said that only foreign pilots could land on this rough airport and Vietnamese pilots dare not. I replied that Vietnamese pilots must be among the world's best, because only Vietnamese pilots who could have had extensive dog fight with American pilots (even more than Allies pilots).

I believe no where in this world are there such brave and skilled pilots as described below:

On 3 January 1968, a MiG-21 pilot, Ha Van Chuc, alone entered into battle with 36 American planes and claimed shot down one F-105 Thunderchief[52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21

With such mentality, I believe South Vietnamese pilots can never be as skilled as North Vietnamese pilots, although the former can graduate from the world's best pilot training schools and the latter only attends training school in Vietnam.

You are one smart Vietnamese. Chinese used to be like this 10-15 years ago, we didn't believe in our own abilities, now Chinese universities are some of the best in the world, turning out world class research. Our people are starting to believe we can achieve more.

I am not saying jv universities are bad, but those are for commercial degree mill type of institution, it should never be regarded as your pride. We produce research in Chinese and some technologies and papers are classified until today written in Chinese shared among domestic journals and universities.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

SHoP Architects has broken ground on Fulbright University Vietnam, the country’s first independent, not-for profit institution of higher education.

What a shame "the country's first independent, not-for profit institution of higher education" has a name like "Fulbright". Is "Fulbright" a traditional Vietnamese name?

 

[Viet]

What a shame "the country's first independent, not-for profit institution of higher education" has a name like "Fulbright". Is "Fulbright" a traditional Vietnamese name?

I googled a bit.

No reason for shame

The university is named after the late US senator Fulbright. Fulbright was a honored man, who supported the establishing of the United Nations and academic exchange program after WW II.

The university is supported by VN and US government. It received initial funding from the US Congress.

The conditions of the US Congress’s money: the university must be independent, not-for-profit, and on par with the quality of American universities.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

I googled a bit.

No reason for shame

The university is named after the late US senator Fulbright. Fulbright was a honored man, who supported the establishing of the United Nations and academic exchange program after WW II.

The university is supported by VN and US government. It received initial funding from the US Congress.

The conditions of the US Congress’s money: the university must be independent, not-for-profit, and on par with the quality of American universities.

"American" and "honourable" don't belong in the same sentence.