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      When Academics want to Bring Down the Academy — a Princeton Example

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      2025 Student Free Speech Survey

      PFS Student Survey Shows Increased Awareness of Free Speech Principles, but Little Understanding of What Free Speech Looks Like in Practice

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      Princeton Free Speech News & Commentary

      Student Leaders Champion Free Speech as Princeton Open Campus Coalition Celebrates a Decade of Defending Expression

      October 04, 2025 3 min read

      Amelia Freund
      Princetonians for Free Speech

      My name is Amelia Freund and I am honored to be serving as President of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC) this year. An Army brat hailing from the DC-Maryland-Virginia area, I am a member of the great class of 2028, the Butler College Class Council, and the Politics Department. In high school I read On Liberty by John Stuart Mill several times over in my philosophy courses, each time I found it engaging and inspirational. I was particularly drawn in by Mill’s defense of free speech. He believed that for an idea to be true, it must be continuously discussed and debated, requiring broad protections for civic discourse. His argument resonated with me a great deal, and has carried me to countless engagements with freedom of speech since then, both in and out of the classroom. 

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      Commentary: A Princeton President’s Evasions

      October 03, 2025 1 min read

      Len Gutkin 
      Chronicle of Higher Education 

      Excerpt: In the summer of 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd, the faculty and the president of Princeton University engaged in an especially long-winded instance of the political ritual common to the period. The president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, went first. Given “recent tragic events” and “the ongoing reality of oppression and violence against Black Americans,” Princeton “must examine all aspects of this institution — from our scholarly work to our daily operations — with a critical eye and a bias toward action.”

      In his new book, Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right, Eisgruber calls this letter “one of the most controversial statements” of his presidency. He goes on: “I would myself frame some of it differently if I were writing today.”

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      Eisgruber says ‘absolutely’ to staying on until at least 2027

      October 03, 2025 1 min read

      Cynthia Torres
      Daily Princetonian 

      Excerpt: With the release of his latest book 12 years into his tenure, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 says he’s not done yet. “Right now, I feel energetic,” Eisgruber said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. “I feel enthusiastic about the community of Princeton University and the mission of Princeton University.”

      Every other Ivy League president has been replaced in the past two years, many of them forced out amid national firestorms. Columbia University has seen three presidents in a little over one year, and the leaders of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University resigned in quick succession following a December 2023 congressional hearing on antisemitism.

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      Colleges and Universities Must Pursue Every Legal Path to Ensure Diverse Student Bodies

      October 06, 2025 1 min read

      Letitia James, William Tong, Kathy Jennings, Kwame Raoul, Keith Ellison, Matthew Platkin, Charity Clark and Nick Brown
      Inside Higher Ed

      Excerpt: The Supreme Court, even in striking down diversity initiatives, still made clear that universities could explore race-neutral alternatives to achieve equity. The use of socioeconomic and geographic factors is exactly such an alternative. Despite U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi’s recent nonbinding guidance warning against the use of geographic indicators as “proxies” for race, make no mistake: Abandoning consideration of these elements of an applicant’s background is not a legal requirement but a political choice, reflecting fear rather than courage.

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      Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor Sees the Problem—Can He Find a Solution?

      October 05, 2025 1 min read

      Neetu Arnold 
      City Journal 

      Excerpt: Universities have let progressive dogma degrade their academic missions, eviscerating public faith in higher education. College leaders willing to admit this truth are rare. Vanderbilt University chancellor Daniel Diermeier is one. He has long been a champion of political neutrality and has called out the politicization of scholarly associations—approaches other university leaders are only now catching up on.

      Adopting these policies and principles can be challenging for university leaders, partly because they fear how their own faculty or academic departments might respond. Yet Diermeier’s love of universities emboldens him. In a recent interview, transcribed below, he told me that education and research are “noble work,” but only if they are grounded in core principles. And he emphasized how politicization in some departments overshadows the good work conducted in others.

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      FIRE statement on the White House’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education

      October 02, 2025 1 min read

      Tyler Coward, Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression

      Excerpt: Freedom thrives when the people, not bureaucrats, decide which ideas are worthy of discussion, debate, or support. As FIRE has long argued, campus reform is necessary. But overreaching government coercion that tries to end-run around the First Amendment to impose an official orthodoxy is unacceptable. And the White House’s new Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education raises red flags.

      The compact includes troubling language, such as calling on institutions to eliminate departments deemed to “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.” Let’s be clear: Speech that offends or criticizes political views is not violence. Conflating words with violence undermines both free speech and efforts to combat real threats.

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      September 30, 2025 6 min read

      October 1, 2025

      Dear PFS Subscribers, Members and Friends,

      On September 25, PFS Vice-Chair Leslie Spencer ‘79 and Executive Director Angela Smith attended the third annual conference of the MIT Free Speech Alliance, an affiliated alumni group. The conference focussed on this fraught moment in higher education, with threats posed by both left and right and by the federal government.

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      August 2025 Newsletter

      August 28, 2025 6 min read

      August 29, 2025

      Dear PFS Subscribers, Members and Friends,

      Big news! PFS now has over 10,000 subscribers, representing 14% of the undergraduate alumni population. 

       “Resist vs. Reform” is this month’s Special Feature: President Christopher Eisgruber ‘83 was in the spotlight, forcefully defending his leadership role in the now publicly acrimonious divide. Some university presidents, including Eisgruber, urge their colleagues to present a united front against the Trump administration and refuse to admit a need to reform longstanding problems. The opposing camp, led by Chancellors Daniel Diermeier of Vanderbilt University and Andrew D. Martin of Washington University St. Louis, argues that “de-wokification” reform from within is the only way to resolve what is needed to restore public confidence in elite higher education.


      Princeton FIRE Rankings
      Princeton moves up—but still "fails"—in FIRE's 2026 College Free Speech rankings

      160 out of 257. Princeton moves up—but still "fails" (earning a grade of "F")—in FIRE's 2026 College Free Speech rankings.

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