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Carlett Spike
Princeton Alumni Weekly
Excerpt: Halts on new visa interviews, expanded ICE raids, and travel bans are just a few of the Trump administration tactics that have created an environment of fear and frustration for international students on college campuses across the country. At Princeton, international graduate students have faced a semester of uncertainty as policies are frequently changing and their options to continue their studies and research work remain unclear.
Lily Halbert-Alexander
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: In an otherwise insightful, hopeful, and at times even beautiful, piece in the New Yorker in April, Princeton Professor of History D. Graham Burnett makes one critical error: Compared to the rise of AI, he remarks, the Trump administration’s frightening invasions into university affairs seems like a “sideshow.”
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.
Bruce Berkow
December 20, 2024
But there is reason to conclude that systemic anti-racism does indeed permeate academia, with potentially disastrous consequences.