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(02/22/18 3:57am)
On Feb. 12, President Trump unveiled his budget for the 2019 fiscal year. The proposed budget includes a host of changes to federal student loan programming, including the elimination of subsidized government loans, a reduction in income-based repayment plans, cuts to Pell Grant subsidies for universities, and an extended period before graduate students can be eligible for loan forgiveness.
(02/16/18 3:58am)
(02/08/18 2:27am)
Next Monday, President Eisgruber will hold this year’s annual Town Hall meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community.
(01/27/18 12:30am)
Chester Lam ‘19 of Morganville, N.J. was a loyal, caring, and funny, though quiet, friend to those who knew him well.
(12/14/17 3:47am)
On Dec. 13, the Office of Communications announced that President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 had joined over two dozen university presidents from campuses across the nation to found the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. According to their mission statement, this alliance is “dedicated to increasing public understanding” about the impact immigration policies have on students, their campuses, and their communities. The group also pledged to support policies the create and sustain a “welcoming environment” for immigrant, undocumented, and international students on American campuses.
(11/29/17 3:29am)
The Graduate Student Government hosted a call-a-thon in Green Hall on Nov. 28 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. for students to contact key senators and ask them to vote against the proposed Republican tax plan. The bill, which the House of Representatives passed on Nov. 16, would significantly increase University graduate students’ tax burdens and make graduate education unaffordable for many students across the nation.
(11/28/17 3:05am)
Dozens of members of the University community gathered in Maeder Hall on Monday, Nov. 27 for the first of three town hall meetings on the University’s handling of sexual misconduct cases, specifically the disciplinary actions it takes against perpetrators.
(11/21/17 3:33am)
Dozens of graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty members gathered on Monday, Nov. 20 in Maeder Hall to discuss a petition demanding that the University elevate its disciplinary action against Sergio Verdú, a Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was found guilty of sexual harassment in a Title IX investigation earlier this summer. Over 650 undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have signed the petition.
(11/09/17 4:40am)
“At its heart and at its best, [domestic work] is about upholding the dignity and quality of life of others,” said Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance in a lecture on Wednesday. “It’s the work that allows all other work to be done.”
(11/07/17 3:54am)
Students gathered in Lewis Library on Monday, Nov. 6, to protest a talk by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, accusing her of being Islamophobic and promoting hatred against Palestinians.
(11/03/17 8:39pm)
The University has launched a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The U. filed the joint complaint on Nov. 3 in federal court in Washington, D.C., alongside Maria De La Cruz Perales Sanchez '18 and Microsoft.
(09/28/17 3:08am)
Refugee agencies across the nation are bracing themselves for President Trump’s presidential deliberation on the refugee cap for the coming fiscal year. An official decision is due on Oct. 1, but the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the cap will be lowered to 45,000. This would be a drastic cut from the 110,000 permitted under the 2016 fiscal year budget, and the lowest ever since the Refugee Act was signed into law in 1980.
(09/25/17 3:41am)
Many graduate students with children disagreed with a University statement that claimed that the new on-campus facility for the University-National Organization for Women Day Nursery will make affordable childcare more accessible to all members of the University community.
(09/20/17 2:09am)
The children of faculty are the beneficiaries of one the University’s most recent investments: high-quality childcare.
(08/19/17 3:10pm)
University students expressed sadness and horror at the violence at protests led by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend.
(05/02/17 3:48am)
Members of the Princeton Citizen Scientists find the lack of American lawmakers with science backgrounds shocking, so on May 1, the group traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for evidence-based policymaking and met with 22 legislators or their staffers.
(04/21/17 3:17am)
On April 20, the Princeton Unionization Information Committee gave their first presentation advising against unionizing with the American Federation of Teachers. Around two dozen people attended the meeting.
(04/10/17 8:11pm)
At noon on April 10 in Palmer Square, a lone guitarist stood next to an anti-war sign to protest the United States cruise missile strike on Syria. That musician was Fred Stein, an active member of the Libertarian Party who believes strongly in limiting U.S. foreign involvement and in “minding our own business” on a national scale.
(04/07/17 2:43am)
In the summer of 2016, the University launched a new five-week course in which six students traveled to Greece to report on the refugee crisis from its front lines, working as foreign correspondents. On April 5, the students sat down with an audience to talk about their experience in this capacity.
(03/15/17 5:04am)
On Monday night, four panelists from NYU and Rutgers shared their experience with higher education unions and encouraged University graduate students to unionize.