The Dartmouth, the college’s student paper, published an op-ed on Thursday revealing that, for the first time in the school’s history, more than half of grades awarded at the school are A’s or A-minuses.
The Wilson School accepted 90 sophomores out of about 180 who applied, Professor in Public and International Affairs Stanley Katz told The Daily Princetonian on Thursday, when decisions were announced.
Rutgers University announced last week that it would offer a gender-neutral housing option for students beginning in the 2011-12 academic year.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer gave a talk titled “Political Reporting in the 21st Century” before an audience of roughly 50 students and community members in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber on Thursday night. The talk was sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada delivered the annual John Marshall Harlan ’20 Lecture in Constitutional Adjudication to a nearly full Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on Thursday night. Her talk, titled “Global Justice: The Power and the Pity,” was hosted by the Wilson School’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.
Though under one month remains until the University’s deadline to notify its 27,115 applicants for the Class of 2015 of the decision regarding their admission, a small number of students have already been informed that they should expect to have a spot in the incoming freshman class.
Called to campus in summer 2009, Borough police officers readied their patrol rifles and began searching the campus for a gunman. Walking alongside the Borough officers were the University’s Public Safety officers. But instead of carrying the handguns and assault weapons as did the Borough officers, Public Safety officers were unarmed.
William G. Bowen GS ’58, former president of the University and president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has recently published a book titled “Lessons Learned: Reflections of a University President.”
The Township’s new Chief of Police, Robert Buchanan, was sworn into office on Monday evening. Buchanan replaces former chief Mark Emann, who left the Township Police Department following a corruption investigation.
This year, the University and nearly all other peer institutions received record numbers of applicants, continuing a years-long trend of increasing competitiveness.At a recent higher-education conference at the University of Southern California, Skidmore College professor emeritus Sandy Baum and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson presented a radical solution to this issue: The “top 20” undergraduate educational institutions could alleviate the problem by increasing their class sizes by 50 percent.
Lewisburg, Pa. — Separated from the nearest city by 50 miles of winding roads, Bucknell University is dotted by brown-brick buildings and encircled by snow-capped mountains. The small liberal arts school is much smaller in size and population than Princeton, is markedly farther than Princeton is from any major metropolitan area and has much less crime than Princeton does, according to crime reports filed with the U.S. Department of Education.By all accounts, then, Bucknell’s is a safer campus. But Bucknell’s public safety officers now carry guns, and Princeton’s do not.
University professors Stanley Katz and Joyce Carol Oates were among 10 recipients of the 2010 National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama at a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.Katz, a Wilson School professor and president of the American Council of Learned Societies, was recognized ?for a career devoted to fostering public support for the humanities,? according to a White House press release.Oates, a creative writing professor and the author of more than 50 novels, among other works, was recognized ?for her contributions to American letters,? according to the statement.?Works of art, literature, works of history; they speak to our condition and they affirm our desire for something more and something better,? Obama said at the ceremony.?The arts and the humanities help us through the hard times and they remind us of what make the good times worthwhile.
Three University alumni who played noteworthy roles in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s gathered for a panel discussion titled “John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights: Fifty Years After” on Wednesday in Robertson Hall.
University students celebrated the Romanian and Bulgarian holiday of Martisor on Tuesday with traditional food, bracelets and charms at the Frist Campus Center.
Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) defeated IBM’s Watson, a computer that can respond to spoken questions, in a Congressional exhibition “Jeopardy!” match in Washington, D.C., on Monday night.
Morrison delivered her lecture, titled “Invisible Ink: Reading the Writing and Writing the Reading,” to a packed auditorium of students, University officials and community members. The lecture was hosted by Wilson College as part of its lecture series in honor of the residential college’s 50th anniversary.
Within the span of five months in 2009, three gun scares — none of which involved real guns — hit the University campus, each renewing calls to allow the University’s unarmed Public Safety officers to carry guns.
The University and Borough reopened public talks about the Arts and Transit Neighborhood on Tuesday evening at the Borough Council meeting.
The editorial board at The Chronicle, Duke University’s student newspaper, ran an editorial last month examining grade inflation at the university and recommending that administrative officials take action against it.
Rockefeller College card-checker Helen Wilkinson, 81, passed away last Wednesday at her home in Princeton Junction.
