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(02/17/15 7:04pm)
Satellite constellations can be optimized to better predict flooding around the world, researchers from the University, Cornell University and The Aerospace Corporation said in a study published on Feb. 11.
(02/11/15 8:43pm)
The University is in the process of creating more gender neutral, single stall bathrooms around campus, according toMichele Minter, vice provost for institutional equity and diversity.
(02/04/15 3:58pm)
Roughly 40 percent of students who applied to become residential college advisers for the 2015-16 year, including both returning and new applicants, were offered positions on Wednesday, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students Michael Olin said.
(02/02/15 7:09pm)
There will be a tuition increase of 3.9 percent for the 2016 fiscal year, the University’s Priorities Committee announced in its annual operating budget report released on Monday.The increased budget also includes a 7.4 percent increase in the University’s financial aid budget to $140.2 million for next year. This is in accordance with a “stay-even” financial aid budget designed to protect financial aid recipients from the effects of an increase in tuition.Despite the tuition increase, the University’s total cost of tuition, room and board will still be $630 below the cost of the current year’s closest competitors, including all of the Ivy League institutions, Stanford and MIT, the report said.According to the report, the average net tuition, room and board is $13,072 for students receiving financial aid today, which is 31 percent lower than in 2001.The current 2014-15 tuition sits at $41,820 but will be raised to $43,450 next year. The overall fee increase is also 3.9 percent, including a 4.6 percent increase in room and a 3.1 percent increase in board costs, according to the report. This will result in an overall fee package of $57,610 next year, compared to the current $55,440.The Priorities Committee made its recommendation based on national labor markets and other inflation rates.The Priorities Committee and the Committee on Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid predicted an increase in the fraction of students on financial aid from 58.6 percent to approximately 60 percent for the class entering this coming fall.“The good news story from my perspective is that Princeton remains really one of the most affordable deals in higher education, and that’s an extraordinary thing,” University Provost David Lee GS ’99said. “Even for students who don’t receive aid, our tuition is really at the bottom of our peer group.”As far as expenditures, funding for the Office of Information Technology and the Art Museum will also be increased by 4.3 and 6.9 percent, respectively. The Art Museum hopes to provide universal access to digital images and scholarly documentation of its collection and OIT submitted a request for a new position in high-performance computing, which the Committee approved.Additionally, more resources will be granted to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and the Freshman Scholars Institute.The budget will also accommodate a push to improve the diversity of career opportunities made available through the Office of Career Services, with a goal oftransitioning from a transactional model in which Career Services primarily helps upperclassmen find jobs and internships to a model that better assists students craft visions for their career goals.Other recommendations the Committee made include an increase of graduate stipends of 3 percent and an aggregate salary pool equivalent to the pools of the last two years for faculty pay. Lee said that remaining competitive with peer institutions in faculty salaries was essential to prevent losing faculty.The Committee also released projections about budget deficits in coming years, predicting a $20 million deficit in fiscal year 2018 and a decrease of $2 million each year after that.“Those numbers are not unusual historically,” Lee said of the predicted deficits. “1.7 billion dollars is the operating budget, so it’s a tiny percentage.”Lee said the Committee felt confident with its investments this year and aims to use its financial resources to ensure the most effective and consequential investments are made.University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and numerous members of the Priorities Committee did not respond to requests for comment.
(01/11/15 4:17pm)
The Office of Admission has received and processed 26,976 applications for the Class of 2019 as of Jan. 6, the second highest in the University's history, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.
(12/15/14 1:00pm)
The University admitted 767 single-choice early applicants to the Class of 2019. Of the 3,850 applicants, 19.9 percent were accepted.
(12/11/14 6:12pm)
Professors applauded the protests in the wake of Michael Brown’s and Eric Garner’s deaths in recent weeks, and clarified the practices and legal processes that help explain their deathsand the lack of indictment in a panel discussion on Thursday.
(11/24/14 1:27pm)
The University has scheduled two one-day placeholder dates for Princeton Preview this spring, but it has not fully decided whether Preview will once again be a day-long event or if it will later be expanded into a multi-day form, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said this week.
(11/17/14 1:14pm)
The University has received approximately 3,830 early action applications so far this year for the Class of 2019, according to Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye.Last year, the University received 3,854 early action applications, but Rapelye said more applications could still come in this year. It is not uncommon, she said, for students who intend to apply early action to send in their applications but to specify regular decision accidentally.Students have until Dec. 1 to correct their decision options with the Office of Admission, she said.The Office of Admission may also accept late applications if a students has a legitimate reason for submitting late, Rapelye said, including health problems for the student or close family members and international students whose school schedules may leave them on holiday when applications are due.Overall, Rapelye described the numbers as “exactly the same this year,” adding that the numbers are still “a little soft” because of the applications that could come in within the next week or two.Of the 3,854 early action applicants to the Class of 2018 last year, 714 were accepted, producing an acceptance rate of 18.5 percent. Six hundred ninety-seven of the 3,810 early action applicants to the Class of 2017 were admitted, corresponding to an 18.3 percent early acceptance rate.Rapelye said the ideal size for the Class of 2019 is 1,310 students, and she anticipates that the number of students accepted early this year will be in the same range as that of last year.Last year, 4,692 applied to Harvard early, and 4,750 applied to Yale early. Harvard admitted 21.1 percent of these applicants, and Yale accepted 15.5 percent of early action applicants.Students will receive their acceptance decisions in mid-December.“We’re rating and reading the files now. We haven’t gotten to committee yet —that will happen in December,” Rapelye said, referring to the stage of the process in which admission officers convene to go over applications together and to “vote on candidates.”There are 20 full-time staff members reading applications in addition to 20–24 individuals helping with the technological and administrative sides of admission, Rapelye said.The office temporarily hires 25 to 30 additional readers from outside the University each year who have appropriate credentials in education and writing, she said.The pool of applicants has increased by 93 percent over the last 10 or 12 years, she said, adding that the University has seen 25,000–27,000 applications in each of the last three or four years.Rapelye said it’s difficult to identify trends in admissionsince the switch to single-choice early action in 2011.“We’re still in the first three years of early action. We don’t have a long trendline to look at,” Rapelye said.Last year, the University rejected a very low number of students in the early round, deferring 3,042 to the regular decision cycle. Twelve applicants withdrew, and only 49 were rejected.“Because the Common App was not working properly at this stage, we refused a very small number last year,” Rapelye said. “Here’s my philosophy about early: If a student is really not going to be competitive in the spring, we want to give them an indication now to say this is not going to be a possibility, and we hope you will now re-apply to other schools. That’s what a refused decision in December is.”When students are deferred, it is generally because the University wants to see how they compare to the rest of applicants or to see how they perform in their senior year classes, which Rapelye saidis incredibly important in the decision-making process.The University hasn’t yet calculated the demographic breakdown of applicants, but Rapelye said this information will be available in December when acceptance letters are sent out.
(11/09/14 11:52am)
Approximately 56 percent of undergraduate students at the University engage in study abroad programs between semesters and summers abroad, and 27 percent do it more than once, according to Director of Study Abroad in the Office of International Programs Mell Bolen.
(11/04/14 8:17pm)
A small fire was reported in McCormick Hall on Tuesday at 5:37 p.m. Fifteen people were evacuated from the building housing the Princeton University Art Museumwhen a small fire appeared in an office on the third floor, according to University spokesperson Martin Mbugua.
(11/03/14 8:52pm)
Yale has been accused of being insensitive to instances of harassment against women after facts about a sexual harassment case that has been unfolding for the past five years in the Yale School of Medicine came to light, according The New York Times.
(10/13/14 1:11pm)
“USG: where men are presidents and women are secretaries” is one of a series of posters that have spawned conversations about equal gender representation around campus, most notably in regards to the Undergraduate Student Government and campus leadership in general.
(09/28/14 9:33pm)
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate passed several resolutions regarding its position on the Report from the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Policy Regarding Assessment and Grading, and welcomed Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources & Education to discuss its policies and future goals at its weekly Senate meeting Sunday.
(09/21/14 8:27pm)
The Undergraduate Student Government Senate announced its budget and goals for the year in Sunday afternoon’s senate meeting immediately following the town hall meeting on sexual assault policy.
(09/17/14 10:30pm)
Approximately 70 percent of students change their course of study during their time at the University, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said in a recent interview, citing an internal study she had seen.
(09/16/14 8:05pm)
Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert broke a tie at last Monday’s council meeting to raise her own and other governing officials’ salaries.
(09/16/14 7:24pm)
The TD Bank in Princeton was robbed at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, Planet Princeton reported.
(09/10/14 2:22pm)
Students from the Class of 2018 represent 46 states, along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. 40.6 percent of students come from three states: New Jersey, California and New York, and no students come from Nebraska, Alaska, North Dakota and Wyoming, according to information provided by Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye .
(05/11/14 6:12pm)
Following an announcement Thursday, the University has revised its official yield rate for the Class of 2018, increasing it to 69.2 percent, which actually marks a slight increase from last year's yield of 68.7 percent.