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Opinion

The N-Word and Language as Property

Debates about whether Whites in academia — professors or students — are entitled to sling and fling the N-word with abandon, be it in a song, a “lesson” or some sort of speculative “thought experiment” (as seems to be the case with the most recent incident) are not a bug, but a feature of a society structured by racial dominance, oppression and exploitation.

February 22, 2018

Students

Legacy Preferences Challenged at Elite Schools

BOSTON — Students and alumni at some of the nation’s top universities are urging their schools to reconsider admissions policies that give an edge to relatives of alumni. Campus groups for first-generation and low-income students at 12 elite universities issued a joint letter Wednesday asking their schools to review the impact of so-called legacy admissions […]

February 14, 2018

Students

First-Generation Students Celebrated in Nationwide Festivities

In an effort to showcase and empower first-generation students, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) will organize a national celebration on college and university campuses this week.

November 5, 2017

Students

Scholar Defends Chinese-American Researcher Jailed in Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Chinese-American graduate student sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly “infiltrating” the country and sending confidential material abroad is innocent of all charges against him, his professor at Princeton University said on Monday. Xiyue Wang’s arrest, which authorities said happened nearly a year ago, only came […]

July 17, 2017

African-American

Tracy Smith Named New Poet Laureate

Tracy K. Smith, the director of Creative Writing and the Roger S. Berlind Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, has been named the nation’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2017-2018.

June 15, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Princeton Professor Cancels Lectures After Speech Leads to Threats

TRENTON, N.J. — A Princeton University professor says she canceled lectures this week after receiving death threats following a commencement address in which she called President Donald Trump “a racist and sexist megalomaniac.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African American Studies at the Ivy League school in New Jersey, spoke to graduates at Hampshire […]

June 1, 2017

African-American

Princeton Renaming Building in Honor of Toni Morrison

West College — a central building on the campus of Princeton University — will be renamed in honor of Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate who currently is a professor emeritus at the Ivy league school.

April 19, 2017

African-American

Glaude’s Book Examines Devaluing of Black Lives

Text examines how Black lives continue to be rendered insignificant in an era when many thought that the election of the nation’s first Black president would signify a dramatic shift in race relations.

March 30, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Princeton Takes Major Step Forward in African-American Studies

Princeton University is one step closer to offering an undergraduate major in African-American studies.

May 26, 2015