Tilghman’s intimate knowledge of the scientific community served her well in her tenure as president, as the University moved forward on a number of science-related initiatives.
In addition to stepping down as University president at the end of this year, President Shirley Tilghman has offered to resign from her position on Google’s Board of Directors. According to Tilghman, there is a practice at Google in which members offer to resign their posts once they leave their current position.
Shirley Tilghman, the University’s 19th president whose on-campus, activist pushes drew both the lavish praise and ire of the University community, announced Saturday that she will step down this June after 12 years as president. Tilghman announced her departure in an email to the student body after informing the University Board of Trustees at their meeting on Friday night. The trustees learned the news for the first time this weekend, though Tilghman told Kathryn Hall ’80, the chair of the board, about her plans to retire prior to Friday’s meeting. Hall and Tilghman both said the board had encouraged Tilghman to stay on as president. Tilghman plans to finish out the year and then take a year leave, partially in London, before returning to the faculty.
After University President Shirley Tilghman announced her retirement, students, faculty and alumni alike immediately began to engage in a campus-wide dialogue, reflecting on Tilghman’s contributions to the University while also thinking about Princeton’s future. The Daily Princetonian reached out to several individuals in the Princeton community to hear their thoughts on Tilghman’s sudden retirement plans.
At the beginning of last spring, Tilghman was unsure of her future, she told The Daily Princetonian on Saturday. The Aspire campaign was set to finish over the summer, and in 2009 Tilghman had said she would follow in the footsteps of her predecessor, Harold Shapiro GS ’64, and step down at the conclusion of a major fundraising push.
Hours after announcing that she would step down as University president, Shirley Tilghman sat down with The Daily Princetonian to discuss her retirement and the highlights of her presidency. Tilghman told the ‘Prince’ that the residential college system wasn’t designed as exactly as she had hoped, that she chose to retire after deep thinking over the summer and more.
If University President Shirley Tilghman could have her way, every student on campus would be a member of both a four-year residential college and an eating club.This ideal vision reflects a series of reforms to campus residential and social life made under Tilghman’s tenure, characterized by the expansion of residential colleges, hostility towards Greek life and a relationship with eating clubs defined by underlying support but a desire for reform.
Nearly a year after animal rights groups began to intensely protest alleged animal abuse violations in University laboratories, the University has named a director of a new office that will oversee the University’s compliance with appropriate animal research guidelines and regulations.
In some ways, it resembles a regular University course: Students meet weekly around a table to discuss readings and hand in a major paper at the end of the semester. But the $350 check students earn at the course’s completion is a reward not listed in the Undergraduate Announcement.The Sinai Scholars program, hosted by the University’s Chabad chapter, markets itself as a “class” on the 10 Commandments. Students meet weekly over dinner and discuss texts, but no homework is expected for the course. And as students shop classes and schedules, the program is recruiting them to sign up for the weekly course and noting the $350 stipend they receive upon completion of the course.
First lady Michelle Obama ’85 will come to Princeton Township to speak at a fundraiser for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign on Sunday, Sept. 23, her first fundraising visit to the area and a rare acknowledgement of her alma mater.
Students returning to campus this fall were greeted by an unfamiliar sight — 12 enormous animal heads, each 10 feet tall and cast in bronze, lined up along the Fountain of Freedom outside Robertson Hall.
The January consolidation between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township entered the final stage of the yearlong process on Wednesday evening as the Transition Task Force released the first draft of its final report on the merger at its meeting.
Faculty members nearing the end of their careers are pleased with the University’s retirement programs, so much so that the University’s work in faculty retirement earned the University a $100,000 grant from the American Council of Education.
A mystery in number theory that has puzzled mathematicians for the past three decades may have been solved last week by a Princeton alumnus.
Firestone Library is honoring former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, on the centennial of his election as President of the United States in 1912 with an exhibit in the library’s Milberg Gallery.The exhibition, titled “The Election for Woodrow Wilson’s America,” features photographs, love letters from Wilson to his wife Edith, political cartoons and campaign posters of Wilson during the 1912 election, when he defeated both incumbent President William Howard Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt.
Labyrinth Books has added additional security measures by its exit in response to inventory shrinkage — or the loss of products — at the store. To prevent future product loss, Labyrinth has hired a security guard stationed at the front of the store and installed an electronic gate at its entrance.
Firestone Library was evacuated at approximately 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday after a faulty sensor caused a fire alarm to ring in an elevator shaft.
At one of the nation’s most prestigious economic policy summits, economics professors Markus Brunnermeier and Yuliy Sannikov presented a paper this summer that argued that monetary policy can play a redistributive role in the economy during financial crises and stimulate growth.
As her former embassy in Yemen was stormed by protestors angered by an anti-Islam film, Barbara Bodine watched the chaos from the comfort of the Wilson School. Bodine, who served as the American ambassador to Yemen from 1997 to 2001 as part of her 30 years in the Foreign Service, currently lectures at the Wilson School while leading the school’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative.
The suspect in the alleged sexual assault on Sunday in 1939 Hall may have electronically recorded the incident, the Borough police confirmed on Tuesday. Both the alleged suspect and victim are University students. The police are consulting with the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office about whether to file charges in the case.
