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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.
Oliver Wu
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 spoke about defending free speech on college campuses during a book talk at the new Princeton University Art Museum’s Grand Hall on Wednesday. The event was open to University students, faculty, and staff, but had limited spots. Eisgruber spoke for over half an hour before taking questions from the audience.
Eisgruber noted the tense climate for higher education under the second Trump administration. “American research universities are the best in the world, but today, they face unprecedented and withering attacks from our country’s own government,” he said. “Much of this attack is both unlawful and broadly unpopular.”
By Tal Fortgang ‘17
What is an Ivy League university? The simplicity of the question is deceiving. Everyone knows what Harvard is. Except increasingly, no one does – not the students who attend, and certainly not the administrators who shape the institution, thereby answering that question every day.
Isaac Barsoum
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: On Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, Sunrise Princeton, alongside the Princeton Progressive Coalition, organized a rally of more than 100 demonstrators. We called on the University to act as a leader by defending life-or-death climate research, divesting from weapons manufacturers to end the genocide in Palestine, protecting immigrants and international students, and safeguarding academic freedom in a time when rising authoritarianism threatens progress across the world.
As a lead organizer for this rally, I learned an important lesson: Princeton students care a lot about progressive change, and are willing to publicly display their support because they’re optimistic that their actions can make a difference on a policy level. They just feel like they’re too damn busy.
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.