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Luke Grippo and Irene Kim
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: An hour after the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting on Monday, March 24, President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 addressed the Princeton town community to address the state of higher education, the University endowment, and ways to maintain collaboration between the town and the University.
The Princeton Town Hall Meeting is an event held annually by members of the Princeton Council in collaboration with Eisgruber, with the goal of facilitating open communication between the University and the town.
Isaac Barsoum
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: At a time when autocracy is rising nationwide, Princeton should respond with democracy here. For too long, the disciplinary and policy-making procedures at Princeton have been opaque and anti-democratic. We ought to move toward the democratization of internal processes, thereby affirming the importance of disciplinary due process and true community input in policy formation.
Cynthia Torres
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: At the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting on Monday, Eisgruber was confronted with queries on the Trump administration and University governance from several students who had skirted the committee’s rules on submitting questions on advance.
The first question came from Vasanth Visweswaran ’28, who asked Eisgruber how he could use his position as chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU) to “defend all members of the University community from the recent Trump administration attacks on free speech, funding cuts and threats for deportations.”
James R. Wells, '46
May 03, 2024
I think the best thing for Princeton at this point in time would be to close it’s doors and shut down for a year immediately following commencement. Take a year off – let the “brilliant faculty” pursue their own paths for a year – earn their own income. Let the Administration and the Trustees spend a sabbatical rethinking what its mission really should be. Princeton apparently seems unable to set forth or follow any clear or useful mission at the present time. A year off might be refreshing – especially if they spent time studying the educational goals of the early university presidents.