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      Princeton Declines to Punish Students Who Disrupted Event and Shouted Antisemitic Slurs in Violation of Rules

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      Princeton Should Be More Elitist

      June 30, 2025 4 min read

      By Khoa Sands ‘26

      Much of my writing and observations on free speech and academic freedom at Princeton over the past several years in some way revolve around the relationship between the ivory tower and civil society. I have stressed why a liberal society depends on liberal education, the tensions between civic education and the pursuit of truth, and how campus protests mirror social revolutions. Of course, as has been repeated numerous times, free speech is the only way universities can adhere to their truth-seeking missions. However, academic freedom is important from the civil society angle as well, as it legitimizes elite institutions in the eyes of a wider democratic society.

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      What does it mean to Stand Up For Princeton?

      June 23, 2025 5 min read 1 Comment

      Tal Fortgang ‘17

      With President Eisgruber personally leading the academic “resistance” against the Trump administration’s attack on elite universities, Princeton launched a campaign, announced in the Daily Princetonian on May 2, that “encourages alumni, faculty, students, and friends to make their voices heard in support of higher education during this challenging period.” Stand Up for Princeton and Higher Education aims to deputize a cadre of the most influential Americans – Princetonians themselves – who tend to have strong nostalgia for their alma mater, not merely to pay it forward to future Princetonians through donations but to become a kind of political force defending the university in Washington. 

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      Reconsidering External Threats

      June 18, 2025 3 min read

      By Khoa Sands ‘26

      The second Trump administration's attack on higher education has reinvigorated conversations around academic freedom. Concerns once relegated to the center and the right have been taken up again by the left with newfound salience. Princeton, thankfully, has managed to escape the worst of the madness, despite some major cuts to research funding. This relatively privileged situation has not stopped Princetonians from debating, discussing, and defending academic freedom at Princeton. 

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      Florida to create less "woke" university accreditation system, Gov. DeSantis says

      June 26, 2025 1 min read

      CBS News Miami 

      Excerpt: Florida is working with university leaders from five other Southern states to form a new higher-education accrediting body, Gov. Ron DeSantis and officials from the other states announced Thursday.

      The Commission for Public Higher Education, which will need federal approval, would be an alternative to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, a longtime accrediting agency that has clashed with Florida education leaders in recent years.

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      Cornell Hired Based on Race, Internal Documents Show

      June 26, 2025 1 min read 1 Comment

      Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe 
      City Journal 

      Excerpt: In recent months, Ivy League universities have changed their tune on “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Under pressure from President Trump, these institutions have renamed DEI departments, scuttled unpopular programs, and assured the administration that they are following the law. As Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff explained in February: “Just as we do not exclude anyone at Cornell for reasons irrelevant to merit, neither do we . . . hire or promote employees, award chairs or tenure, or make any other merit-driven decisions at Cornell based on race, ethnicity, or other attributes.”

      Kotlikoff’s statement was unequivocal, but according to a trove of internal documents we have obtained, it was also untrue.

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      Texas Asks Colleges to Identify Undocumented Students

      June 25, 2025 1 min read

      Susan H. Greenberg
      Inside Higher Ed

      Excerpt: Public colleges and universities in Texas have been asked to identify which of their students are undocumented so they can be charged out-of-state tuition, The Texas Tribune reported. The move follows a district court ruling earlier this month that prohibits students who are not legal residents from paying in-state tuition.

      In a letter to the state's public college presidents last week, Texas Higher Education commissioner Wynn Rosser wrote that “each institution must assess the population of students who have established eligibility for Texas resident tuition … who are not lawfully present and will therefore need to be reclassified as non-residents and charged non-resident tuition.”

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      Dear PFS Subscribers, Members and Friends,

       

      June provides a welcome pause for PFS to try to make sense of a year uniquely disruptive in the history of American higher education. There was no better place to do this than at Heterodox Academy’s third annual conference, Truth, Power and Responsibility, held June 23 - 25 in Brooklyn, New York.

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      May 30, 2025

      PFS Subscribers, Members and Friends,

      Reunions ‘25 is the focus of this month’s PFS Newsletter. While Princeton and other elite institutions of higher education are under intense and unprecedented scrutiny from the federal government, on campus PFS held a highly successful Reunions ‘25 event featuring John Tomasi, President of Heterodox Academy, in conversation with Princeton Professor of Politics John Londregan.

      See an excerpt and a link to a YouTube recording of the entire event below.


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      223 out of 251. A “red light” institution has at least one red light policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.

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