The University Board of Trustees inducted seven new members this year, including Young Alumni Trustee Jackson Artis ’20. All University alumni, these board members will serve four to eight year terms.
In a hearing held today, the Government agreed to rescind the Directive “on a nationwide basis” and return to previous COVID-19 guidence that allows students taking online courses to reside in the U.S. on F-1 visas “for the duration of the emergency.”
Students will be tested immediately upon arrival and weekly thereafter.
“We call upon the University to amplify its commitment to Black people and all people of color on this campus as central to its mission, and to become, for the first time in its history, an anti-racist institution,” the faculty letter reads.
In response to longstanding demands made by graduate students, SPIA will add a “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” course requirement.
Some other students “doing wet-lab work” or other research that requires being on campus will also be allowed to return, Dean of the College Jill Dolan said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Princetonian.
The University’s decision on fall undergraduate instruction will not come this week. In a statement to The Daily Princetonian, University Spokesperson Ben Chang indicated that the announcement will be made the week of July 6.
The message further notes that “more details about orientation and the fall term” will come “in early July.”
Wilson College will become “First College” and the Woodrow Wilson School will be renamed “The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.”
“The University heard these demands before,” said one petition signatory. “It’s all about applying pressure at this point.”
When asked whether Fr. Zeis will return to campus to resume his past position, Monseigneur Thomas Mullelly told the ‘Prince’ a different priest had been appointed in Fr. Zeis’s former role.
“We have convened several task forces during the past decade to study issues of diversity and inclusion at Princeton University and made progress by implementing changes they recommended,“ President Eisgruber wrote to Cabinet members. “We have not, however, focused on eliminating racism. That is the charge I give to you now.”
Our interactive graphic explores and compares different announced reopening plans across the state.
“The University is not pursuing the issue of immunity,” a spokesperson told the ‘Prince.’ Instead, it “will focus on the principles and initiatives outlined by the governor and attorney general” in a June 2 announcement.
Divest Princeton’s Ryan Warsing said that action is “particularly impactful” now, because the CPUC Resources Committee is currently deliberating on the group’s proposal.
Artis said he is “eager to talk about how the world is moving right now.”
Dolan and Calhoun answered student questions about Fall 2020, acknowledging that most policies will rest upon President Eisgruber’s July decision on whether to return to campus.
Marks will enter her new role on June 8, after working for more than 17 years at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC).
The move was made to prioritize “those who have already matriculated in the department,” according to an announcement.
Johnson shared his reflections on being named valedictorian, responding to challenging situations, and growing as an undergraduate.
