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Hayk Yengibaryan and Christopher Bao
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: In his annual State of the University letter published on Jan. 29, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 defended the University’s endowment, its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, and institutional restraint. Though his letter does not, according to him, address the recent orders and policies from the Trump administration targeting universities, much of what Eisgruber wrote addressed attacks on higher education in recent years.
The shooting at Brown is deeply tragic. But it is not the time for mere thoughts and prayers. It hasn’t been for decades. As another Ivy League university, this moment calls for Princeton to stand in solidarity with the victims of the Brown shooting by pushing for significant reform to fight violence. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is uniquely equipped as the past chair and active board member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) — an organization with a precedent of condemning gun violence — to lobby for gun reform policies on the national and state level.
A discussion about Fizz and the role of social media in our discourse took place at Princeton University on December 3rd, 2025, hosted by the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC) and funded by Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS), While the discussion has been lauded as an example of what can come about through open and civil exchange of ideas, several questions remain worth considering. What is the place of anonymous speech in our society? Should someone take responsibility for the things they say? Or has our public discourse been hollowed out by social media to the point where online commentary should be considered performative?
Tal Fortgang ‘17
When Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber spoke at Harvard on November 5, 2025, he expressed what to his detractors may have sounded like an epiphany. “There’s a genuine civic crisis in America,” he said, noting how polarization and social-media amplification have made civil discourse uniquely difficult. Amid that crisis, he concluded, colleges must retain “clear time, place, and manner rules” for protest, and when protesters violate those rules, the university must refuse to negotiate. As he warned: “If you cede ground to those who break the rules … you encourage more rule-breaking, and you betray the students and scholars who depend on this university to function.”
Dennis Doherty
February 07, 2025
I continue to be amazed that Princeton is sitting on a $34.1B endowment fund while arguing in favor of taxpayer-funded student loan relief. In a previous note in the Alumni magazine, President Eisgruber lamented the lack of support for taxpayer-funded relief of student loan debt for those who had not finished their degree programs.
IMHO, Princeton has been part and parcel of the abuse of the well-intended student loan program which enriched both the banks and the universities. It was intended to enable more students to be able to manage the costs of higher education but, along with the increased demand came increased tuition, a windfall for Princeton among others. I guess that’s just capitalism – it’s a business. And the down side of that was that in many cases, young people cam out with degrees that would not lead to career paths that would easily enable them to repay those loans – a reflection on the poor quality of student advisement while young and frequently uninformed students took on a financial burden in many cases comparable to a house mortgage.
And then to argue that the taxpayers should bear this burden! While Princeton sits on a $34.1B endowment! I am stunned at the audacity of demanding carpenters, plumbers, laborers, etc., pick up the bill for Princeton’s greed!
Again, IMHO, the students do indeed deserve student loan debt relief – but at the cost of the banks and universities that abused such a well-intentioned program.