A sophomore from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was found dead in her dorm room on Tuesday, VCB5 reported, citing an email sent to the student bodyby MIT President L.
William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial column “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League,” argues in his latest book, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life,” that the current higher education system is facing a crisis.
Starting this academic year and awaiting final approval, residential college advisers will be considered to be students with “special responsibilities” in regard to alleged instances of sexual misconduct, under proposed changes to “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities.”The proposed changes were approved by the faculty on Sept.
The University’s latest Annual Giving campaign raised a record-breaking total of$58,748,900, with an also record-breaking participation rate of 61.4 percent for undergraduate alumni. The previous record was $57,246,302 from two years ago, and the previous record for participation was 61.3 percent from 2010-11. Graduate alumniparticipation was 13.7 percent. University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said the combination of three factors —quality of the education provided by the University, character of and intense loyalty to the community, andlasting reminder of how much alumni owed to the people that came before them —makes the campaign successful year after year. “Annual Giving is something that affects the lives of every faculty member and everystudent on this campus,” Eisgruber explained.
The Asian American Students Association is creating the first intercollegiateundergraduate journal of Asian-American studies, “Unfound.” The publicationis sponsored by the Program in American Studies andthe Fields Center. According to the website, the journal’s title reflects its mission to explore what hasremained unfound for Asian-Americans, who are caught between two identities.AASA co-president Evan Kratzer ’16, one of the editors in chief, said that members ofAASA’s Asian American Studies Committee drew inspiration for “Unfound” from theeffectiveness of the Princeton Journal of East Asian Studies, which is supported by the East Asian Studies Program. After realizing that an analogous journal for Asian-American studies did not exist in theUnited States, Kratzer said that AASA members sought to help build a community of peoplewho are interested in Asian-American studies. “In the past, the Journal of East Asian Studies had gotten Asian-American studies-specific articles, and they thought it wasn’t relevant because it’s not East Asian Studies.That’s completely true,” he said.
William Deresiewicz, author of “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and The Way to a Meaningful Life” discussed the crisis of higher education at a lecture on Thursday. A former Yale professor, Deresiewicz gained national recognition after his column “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” went viral online in 2008.
Consumers and employees are demanding more transparency and social responsibility from big corporations, said Jack Dorsey, founder and CEO of Square and co-founder of Twitter, at a discussion on Wednesday. Dorsey spoke as part of a panel entitled “Be the Change: Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy.” Besides Dorsey, the panelists were Deb Dugan, CEO of (RED), and Chris Kuenne ’85, a Keller Center professor and the CEO of Rosemark Capital Group. Dorsey explained there is now a need for companies to be mindful of everything going on in the community. “We have to focus on our element of the equation, but we can’t end the sentence there,” he explained.
U.S. Senator Cory Booker visited Tigerlabs, a venture capital firm on Nassau Street, on Wednesday afternoon, according to Planet Princeton. Booker was in Princeton to judge a startup pitch competition.
The value of Yale’s endowment grew from $20.8 billion to $23.9 billion from June 30, 2013 to June 30, 2014, earning a 20.2 percent investment return, the Yale Daily News reported.
University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 and Mayor Liz Lempert, as well as members of the town council, will meet on Nov.
The statistical accuracy of the official unemployment rate is questionable, concludes a working paper recently published in the National Bureau of Economic Research by Alan Kreuger, Wilson School professor and former chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. He conducted the research with coauthors Alexandre Mas, professor of economics, and Xiaotong Niu,analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. Methodology used by the U.S.
Princeton University Press will outsource its distribution and book fulfillment services from a local company in Ewing, N.J.
Ramona Romero is the University’s new appointed general counsel, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 announced onWednesday morning.
Harvard’s endowment grew to $36.4 billion in the 2014 fiscal year with a return of 15.4 percent, the Harvard Crimson reported. This endowment is just below the institution’s peak in endowment in June 2008 before it lost nearly $11 billion in the global financial crisis. Harvard’s return for the 2014 fiscal year is higher than the return of 11.3 percent it got during the 2013 fiscal year. The 2014 fiscal year marked the fifth consecutive year in which Harvard exceeded the benchmark it created for itself.
Europe faces the dual challenge of remaining credible while ensuring its own stability, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy said at a panel discussion Tuesday. The panel, in addition to Van Rompuy, consisted of Renée Haferkamp, former director general of the European Commission; Peter Hall, a professor of European studies at Harvard; and Andrew Moravcsik, director of the European Union Program at the University. Van Rompuy advocated for more coordination and solidarity between the various constituent members of the European Union while maintaining that each country is ultimately responsible for its own well-being. When asked if the European Union countries which are better off should make fiscal transfers to weaker countries, Van Rompuysaid that they should.
The Princeton town council passed an ordinance banning fracking throughout the town at a council meeting on Monday. The ordinance, which was passed by a vote of 5-1, makes Princeton the first town in Mercer County and the second town in New Jersey to ban fracking, which critics say causes significant damage to the environment.
PHILADELPHIA — University President Christopher Eisgruber '83 urged alumni to consider expanding the size of the incoming freshman class at an alumni event here on Tuesday evening. “I’m proud of all the students who we have, but I know we can do better and do more by taking more students,” he said.
When David Pupa wanted to write a fictional book whose main character attends the University, he was told that he would have to gain official approval before it could be published. In order to get the approval, Pupa submitted a rough draft of his manuscript and was granted preliminary approval two weeks later.
The Witherspoon Institute — a conservative think tank based in Princeton that has many ties to the University — and a University-sponsored program for undergraduate students received substantial funding from the Koch brothers-backed DonorsTrust and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in the year 2012, according to Internal Revenue Service records. The Institute's ties to the University include politics professor Robert George, who helped found the Institute in 2003 and who is currently a senior fellow there, as well as history professor Harold James and politics professor John Londregan, both of whom are also senior fellows.
After edging out a win against Millersville on the opening day of the season, Princeton continued its winning ways with an impressive performance against Ivy League rival Columbia and secured a 38-29 victory.
