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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.
Annabel Green '26
Philosophy Professor Jennifer A. Frey of the University of Tulsa delivered a lecture on October 21, 2025 titled “What is a University and How Can We Recover It?” as part of the James Madison Program’s Stuart Lecture Series on Institutional Corruption in America. Professor Frey explored the historical vocation of the university and the crisis facing the contemporary academy.
City Journal
Excerpt:
Princeton University, like all Ivy League schools, has sunk more deeply into administrative activism over recent years. The school maintains a robust Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy, with more than six DEI employees per 1,000 students. The school also displays several other activist commitments that distract it from its educational mission—most notably, Princeton’s decision to intervene in the Students for Fair Admissions case at the Supreme Court in favor of affirmative action.
Elizabeth Hu
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 addressed conflicts between free speech and censorship on college campuses during a discussion at the Princeton Public Library on Monday. He was joined in conversation by Deborah Pearlstein, Director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Policy.
He also addressed the difference between censorship and controversy through a reference to Judge Kyle Duncan, who was invited to speak at Stanford Law School in 2023. Duncan’s talk was interrupted by student protesters throughout and was eventually cut short. “That’s real censorship,” Eisgruber said. “It made it impossible for a speaker that some people on campus wanted to hear to be heard, and that should be recognized.”
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.