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I am delighted to be with you here today as the University officially welcomes Princeton’s Great Class of 2026 and celebrates the beginning of a new academic year. I have always enjoyed the energy of Opening Exercises and the feelings of renewal and promise that accompany them.
Our gradual…
Let me begin by welcoming Princeton’s Great Class of 2026 to campus! You are already extraordinary in one way: you are the largest class ever to enter Princeton University. And I am confident that by the time you graduate, you will have proven yourselves to be wonderful and extraordinary in many other ways.
My first…
by Christopher Eisgruber
The Biden Administration last week took an important step to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Congress must now act to provide permanent protection for Dreamers, including those who are Princeton students and alumni.
The Department of…
by Christopher Eisgruber
Relief and appreciation swept our research community earlier today as Congress passed a monumental bipartisan bill designed to shore up the U.S. research enterprise and boost America’s economic and strategic competitiveness.
You could all but hear the cheers across Route 1 at the…
by Christopher L. Eisgruber
Bravo to the federal education department for recently expanding a college-in-prison program that helps incarcerated people successfully transition back to society—and which has given Princeton faculty and students genuinely meaningful opportunities to extend our impact beyond this campus.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. For Princeton, it is a day of both pride and frustration.
Pride, because DACA students at Princeton have conducted important research, served in leadership roles, and been able to participate in all aspects of the university…
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In a few minutes, all of you will walk out of this stadium as newly minted graduates of this University. Before you do, however, it is my privilege to say a few words about the path ahead.
That privilege feels even more special than usual this year. It is an honor to speak to the Great…
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As you know from prior experience, Princeton tradition allows the University president to say a few words to each graduating class at its Commencement exercises. Giving that address is a special privilege, and one that I cherish.
That privilege today feels even more extraordinary than usual, since…
Our hearts break for the ten people killed and three others wounded by a racist gunman in a Buffalo grocery store last weekend. The anguish caused to the victims and their families, and to the broader Black community, is simultaneously unfathomable and yet too familiar. It is outrageous, unjust, and intolerable.
As I…