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Incumbent members Michele L. Tuck-Ponder and Beth A. Behrend and newcomer Jean Y. Durbin appear to have won the Nov. 3 election for the Princeton Board of Education, though the Mercer County Board of Elections has yet to finalize the results.
In a year of global reckoning around issues of racial equity, Novogratz Bridge Year Program administrators are contemplating their role in this realignment, as they respond to minority students’ claims of racial, gender, and sexuality-based discrimination and harassment during their time abroad.
Allen Liu ’22 and Christian Potter ’22 have begun campaigning for the position of Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President, with voting to begin next week.
Last month, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced that the University would establish an on-campus testing laboratory to facilitate COVID-19 testing.
Despite the obstacles that COVID-19 presents to student activism, the environmentalist student group Divest Princeton has only gained steam. Next week, the group will face one of its biggest tests of public support yet: a referendum on the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) winter election ballot.
Having been one of the last Ivy League universities to announce its fall semester plans, Princeton now awaits a spring semester decision set to be announced in early December, becoming one of the last Ivies to reveal concrete plans for the spring.
During the weekly Undergraduate Student Government (USG) meeting on Nov. 15, Orientation Program Coordinator Neena Robertson of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) presented results from the Class of 2024 orientation survey and a review of the week-long event for first-years.
On Election Day, New Jersey voters overwhelmingly supported — with 67 percent approval — a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana for those over the age of 21. However, the state legislature still needs to pass a bill on the matter before the drug becomes legal.
The University has updated the criteria that determine which students may apply for spring emergency housing. Students who face unsafe or hostile conditions on account of “social identity” or “protected characteristic(s)” will now be eligible to apply.
On Friday, Nov. 13, the Municipality of Princeton’s Health Department (PHD) reported 16 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week, adding to a two-week total of 30 new positive cases. These weekly and biweekly counts are the highest the PHD has seen since early May, when case numbers previously peaked.
On Nov. 2, the University announced that campus laboratories can partially re-densify, with a minimum of 125 square feet per occupant. Researchers must continue to use personal protective equipment (PPE), as well as follow strict social distancing guidelines.
On Nov. 12, the Ivy League Council of Presidents made the unanimous decision that they will not be conducting athletic competitions for winter sports for the 2020–2021 academic year.
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The Spanish and Portuguese department has canceled its summer abroad programs in Argentina, Portugal, and Spain, citing concerns surrounding international travel.
In the fourth payment of a six-year program, the University will mail checks to about 700 local homeowners. The payments follow a 2016 settlement agreement, which resolved a lawsuit challenging the University’s property tax exemptions.
During the Nov. 9 Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting, Deputy Dean of the College Elizabeth Colagiuri announced that the University has not lengthened next semester’s spring recess, which will run from March 13-16.
Princeton University has been named among one of several institutions to receive a $53 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). On Oct. 29, the grant was formally awarded to a consortium of scientists at five institutions — Princeton University, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), University of Washington, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — to subsidize the construction and deployment of 500 robotic floats for monitoring ocean health.
In a memo sent to all faculty members on Tuesday, Dean of the College Jill Dolan announced University support for two formats for undergraduate courses — hybrid or online — for the spring 2021 semester.
McCarter Theatre has announced plans to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, especially to combat systemic racism in American theater.
The Daily Princetonian has been tracking COVID-19 cases in the town of Princeton as well as in the University. Tracked cases for the town span from early April to present day, while University cases have been tracked since the beginning of the fall semester on Aug. 31, 2020.
