When Ted Price ’10 was flying back from a trip to the Hamptons to attend Reunions in June 2010, just before his graduation, he encountered a huge storm.
Over fall break, University President Shirley Tilghman and four other administrators traveled to South America and formally signed a strategic partnership with the University of Sao Paulo. And by the end of this academic year, the University will have concluded three strategic partnerships — the other two with Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Tokyo — and intends to pursue at least a few more.
The University’s plan to build a new complex of arts buildings came under fire at a meeting of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday evening as opponents of the plan spent two hours under oath criticizing the University’s plan to move the Dinky station.
Summer experience is a “wildly overrated” portion of college applications, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said at a talk Thursday night with Jacques Steinberg, editor of The New York Times blog “The Choice,” which focuses on college admission.
While University President Shirley Tilghman plans to step down from her post in Nassau Hall this June and eventually rejoin the faculty, none of her fellow top-level administrators are planning to step down from their posts alongside her, according to interviews with them this week.
Princeton is now the only Ivy League school still searching for a new university president following Dartmouth’s announcement Thursday that Philip Hanlon, a top administrator at the University of Michigan, would be the school’s 18th president. Dartmouth’s announcement is just three weeks after Yale named its current provost, Peter Salovey, as its next leader.
Harvard received 4,856 applications to its single-choice early action program, a 15 percent increase over the last year, when it first reinstated an early admission option.
Robert Zoellick, who was president of the World Bank during the global financial crisis and held that position until this past June, challenged public policy students not to simply analyze a problem but to actually solve it in a lecture hosted by the Wilson School on Thursday.
Though Jacques Steinberg said he is not an expert on the Princeton admission process, the prominent New York Times reporter who runs ‘The Choice’ blog certainly knows the field of higher education. Before his lecture Thursday afternoon at an event hosted by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Steinberg sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss trends in the college admission process.
The presidential search committee solicited feedback from students in eight focus groups over the past two evenings, in hopes of getting direct feedback on what the student body wants from their new University president.
According to Ed Felten, a renowned expert on computer security and a Wilson School and computer science professor, the copyright meme circulating on Facebook walls which has been discredited by many commentators is “not entirely silly.”
All co-op members will be charged a $50 fee paid to the University beginning next semester, a result of a recommendation made by the University’s Priorities Committee, which crafts the University’s budget, and approved by the University’s Board of Trustees in January. Administrators said the increase in fees will help pay for the services the University provides the co-ops, but co-op leaders countered that they had not been consulted before the decision was made.
The Cyclab student co-op, which repaired bicycles for free, has closed down this fall after a divorce from its former partner organization, U-Bikes. It had been operating for six years.
At a gathering of legal experts Tuesday in which panel participants discussed the recent Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, one audience member asked a question: “Is race-based affirmative action dead?”
At one of its last meetings before Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consolidate, the Transition Task Force discussed a forthcoming report to be produced by Wilson School graduate students on the consolidation process.
The University will allow staff members to apply for up to five days of paid leave to volunteer with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University implemented a similar policy.
Princeton is not one of the four universities that have offered former CIA director David Petraeus GS ’87 a position on its faculty, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said Tuesday. Last week, The New York Times reported that he had offers from four schools, though it did not name the schools.
When Alejandro Zaera-Polo was appointed as the new dean of the School of Architecture in March, student reactions were mixed. An informal poll circulated among the school's graduate students in March found that only five of 58 respondents approved of Zaera-Polo's selection.
After spending a month on campus in 2000, New York Times opinion columnist and conservative commentator David Brooks returned to campus to deliver a lecture on the recent cultural shift. Reflecting on his original moniker “Organization Kid” in his 2001 article for The Atlantic magazine, Brooks believes this “achievement ethos” has only deepened since he left campus more than a decade ago. After his lecture, Brooks sat down with the ‘Prince’ to expand upon his cultural observations and how they might relate to Princeton.
The iron fence that bordered the north side of Prospect House for over a century and became a topic of Princeton folklore has been permanently taken down.
