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Self Description

January 2007: "Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. The ambience of its earliest days is palpable in historic landmarks on campus, most notably Nassau Hall, which in 1783 was the temporary capitol of the United States.

From such a distinctive beginning grew something great -- a community of learning that continues to evolve, providing abundant opportunities to talented students from around the world.

Today, more than 720 faculty members, who are leaders in their respective disciplines, instruct Princeton's 4,815 undergraduate students and 2,300 graduate students."

http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/facts/

Third-Party Descriptions

February 2012: "In fact, the Education Department is currently investigating a complaint against Harvard — Jeremy Lin’s alma mater — for allegedly discriminating against Asian Americans in admissions. The department is also looking at Princeton, where a faculty member’s own research has shown that Asian Americans need SAT scores about 140 points higher than white students’ — when everything else is equal — to have the same chance of getting into an elite college."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-jeremy-lin-a-stereotype-that-should-be-celebrated/2012/02/15/gIQAEynYHR_story.html

May 2011: "Princeton University, for example, pays $1.2 million voluntarily to the Borough of Princeton, and $500,000 to the township. But when the university met resistance from local officials this year to some zoning changes it is seeking to build a new $300 million arts complex — especially to its proposal to move a train station a little farther from downtown — university officials said that they might rethink those voluntary payments."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/us/12nonprofits.html

June 2010: "Princeton started the no-loan trend by eliminating loans in financial aid packages for low-income students in the 1998-99 academic year and for all students in 2001. Other selective universities followed, with a flurry of aid pledges approved in 2006 through 2008."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/05/AR2010060500717.html

July 2001: Notably absent from the group that endorsed the guidelines were Harvard and Princeton, two of the wealthiest universities in the United States, which have already increased their financial aid beyond what most of their competitors offer. Both universities said they agreed with the need-blind approach to financial aid but did not sign the agreement because it would have reduced the aid they give to students.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/06/national/06COLL.html

November 2001: A leading Ivy League university excelling in both research and the liberal arts.

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Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Economic Policy Studies (CEPS) Organization Oct 25, 2012
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Center for Information Technology Policy Organization Sep 28, 2006
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Organization Apr 1, 2008
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Princeton University Press Organization Apr 17, 2008
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) Organization Jun 12, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Esq. Person May 14, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah Person Apr 17, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Hannah Arendt Person Jun 16, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) James A. Baker III Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Gary J. Bass Ph.D. Person Apr 1, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Justin E. Bekelman M.D. Person Dec 14, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Lisa Belkin Person Apr 10, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Ben S. Bernanke Ph.D. Person Apr 28, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jeffrey "Jeff" P. Bezos EE Person Oct 20, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alan S. Blinder Person Jun 25, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sen. Christopher "Kit" S. Bond Esq. Person Mar 21, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Prof. William G. Bowen Person Oct 1, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Julian Parks Boyd Person Jul 31, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Joseph Braude Person Jul 12, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. John W. Budd Ph.D. Person May 26, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. D. Graham Burnett Ph.D. Person Oct 18, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Thanassis Cambanis MS Person Nov 2, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Bryan Caplan Person Jul 2, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jonathan D. Cohen Person Mar 3, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Alberto R. Coll Person Jul 12, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rick Curtis Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Michael A. Cusumano Ph.D. Person Apr 3, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., Esq. Person Jun 15, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jeffrey "Jeff" Drazan MBA Person Jul 27, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Esq. Person Sep 21, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Albert Einstein Person Apr 3, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Douglas W. Elmendorf Ph.D. Person Jan 7, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Gerry Faulhaber Ph.D. Person Mar 23, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Edward W. Felten Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein Ph.D. Person Aug 31, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Michael B. First M.D. Person Dec 19, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Susan Tufts Fiske Ph.D. Person Mar 5, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Steve Forbes Person Aug 14, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Charles Fried Esq. Person Sep 20, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Bill Frist M.D. Person Oct 14, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Robert P. George Esq. Person Apr 12, 2004
Student/Trainee (past or present) Michael S. Greco Esq. Person Jul 27, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Michael Groden Ph.D. Person Nov 27, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross Person Jan 19, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. J. Alex Halderman Person Nov 22, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) William R. Hambrecht Person Aug 4, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Fred Hitz Person Oct 22, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Catherine Holahan Person Apr 18, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. John H. Jackson Esq. Person Aug 24, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Lisa P. Jackson MS Person Oct 24, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Amy Myers Jaffe Person Nov 3, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Justice Elena Kagan Esq. Person May 18, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) John Kamm Person Feb 18, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. John Keegan Person Dec 1, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Philip Kitcher Ph.D. Person Jun 15, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard Esq. Person Mar 24, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alan B. Krueger Person Aug 21, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Paul R. Krugman Ph.D. Person Oct 2, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Kevin M. Kruse Person Nov 7, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Thomas Samuel Kuhn Ph.D. Person Jun 15, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Rae Langton Ph.D. Person Jun 27, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Rep. James "Jim" A. Leach Person Nov 26, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Timothy B. Lee MS Person Jul 11, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Brian Leiter Esq. Person Jan 5, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Charles "Chuck" Lewis Person Jan 30, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Susan B. Long Person Aug 7, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Jeff Merkley Person May 31, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Mary Miller Ph.D. Person Oct 25, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Harris G. Mirkin Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Thomas H. Murray Ph.D. Person Jan 22, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Esq. Person Oct 30, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Helen Nissenbaum Ph.D. Person Apr 12, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Robert Nozick Person Nov 22, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Joyce Carol Oates Person Jul 30, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Michelle Obama Esq. Person Feb 29, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Stephen W. Pacala Person Mar 25, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Claiborne de Borda Pell Person Dec 3, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Richard Perle M.A. Person Jul 15, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Tera W. Hunter Ph.d. Person Aug 2, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Paul R. Pillar Person Feb 10, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Catherine Rampell Person Nov 2, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Uwe E. Reinhardt Ph.D. Person Apr 28, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) David Rieff Person Jan 5, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Kenneth S. Rogoff Person May 21, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Harvey S. Rosen Ph.D. Person Oct 25, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Joydeep Roy Ph.D. Person May 23, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Person Feb 24, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Douglas Rushkoff Person Oct 7, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Pamela Ryckman Person Jun 18, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Senator Paul Spyros Sarbanes Esq. Person
Student/Trainee (past or present) Eric E. Schmidt Ph.D. Person Jun 2, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) George P. Schultz Ph.D. Person Dec 2, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Eldar Shafir Ph.D. Person Jul 24, 2009
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Prof. Harold T. Shapiro Person Jun 12, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Hyun Song Shin Person Apr 6, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) David K. Shipler Person Jun 24, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) George Pratt Shultz Person Jan 9, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Lee M. Silver Person Nov 21, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Jessica Silver-Greenberg Person Apr 27, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Harvey A. Silverglate Esq. Person Feb 17, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Peter Singer Person May 14, 2009
Student/Trainee (past or present) Peter W. Singer Ph.D. Person Jun 5, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Anne-Marie Slaughter Ph.D. Person Jun 24, 2012
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Robert H. Socolow Person Mar 25, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Judge Sonia Sotomayor Esq. Person May 18, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Chester S. Spatt Ph.D. Person May 7, 2012
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer Esq. Person Jun 11, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Paul Starr Person Nov 13, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Gov. Bob Taft MA, Esq. Person Jul 16, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. James Trussell Person Aug 25, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Mark J. Vanlandingham Ph.D., MPH Person Jul 16, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael Walzer Person Apr 1, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dan J. Warmenhoven Person Dec 27, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. John Hubbel Weiss Ph.D. Person Jun 20, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Cornel West Person Jun 17, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Keith E. Whittington Person Oct 12, 2005
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) President Woodrow Wilson Person May 23, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Frank G. Wisner Person Jul 25, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Dr. Alfred Y. Wong Ph.D. Person Jun 7, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Julian E. Zelizer Person Oct 15, 2012

Articles and Resources

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Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Feb 17, 2012 A Stereotype Worth Celebrating

QUOTE: In our college admissions process, especially, we punish Asian Americans who hew too closely to the stereotype. Rather than rewarding students for their individual effort and achievement, we effectively penalize them for doing so well as a group.

 Washington Post
May 11, 2011 Squeezed Cities Ask Nonprofits for More Money

QUOTE: As recession-racked cities struggle to balance their budgets with everything short of feeling behind sofa cushions for loose change, a growing number are seeking more money — just don’t use the word taxes — from nonprofit institutions that occupy valuable land but by law do not pay property taxes.

 New York Times
Jun 06, 2010 Colleges offer grants, work-study to reduce students' debt

QUOTE: More than 50 colleges -- including elite private schools and flagship state universities in Virginia and Maryland -- have eliminated or capped loans in their financial aid portfolios for some or all students, promising enough aid in grants and work-study to cover most of the gap between what they charge and what each student can afford to pay. At a handful of private universities with sizable endowments, including Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, the goal is quite literally to eliminate loan debt for most graduating seniors.

 Washington Post
Mar 03, 2008 Modern-Day McCarthyism: On Juicycampus.com, some all-too-familiar smear tactics

QUOTE: The bullies and gossips have found a way of exploiting a new medium—the Internet—to have their fun. Unlike McCarthy, who craved publicity, the modern-day campus blowhards thrive on anonymity. But they [know] how to use the medium of the moment to attract large audiences to smear individuals, who have no effective recourse.

 Newsweek
Mar 06, 2007 In Diversity Push, Top Universities Enrolling More Black Immigrants: Critics Say Effort Favors Elite Foreigners, Leaves Out Americans

QUOTE: The large representation of black immigrants developed as schools' focus shifted from restitution for decades of excluding black Americans from campuses to embracing wider diversity, the study's authors said. The more elite the school, the more black immigrants are enrolled. "A lot of these institutions have been promoting the increase in their black populations, but clearly this increase reflects a growth in their black immigrant populations," said Camille Z. Charles, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the study.

 Washington Post
Feb 19, 2007 Student Journalism: Bad Work Undercuts First Amendment

QUOTE: Student journalists at the high school and college level have a unusual opportunity to learn the craft of journalism and to give members of their school communities meaningful information about relevant issues and events. Given that these are student journalists, the quality of the work may fall short of professional standards.

 Poynter Online
Dec 16, 2006 What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?

QUOTE: In the same world in which more than a billion people live at a level of affluence never previously known, roughly a billion other people struggle to survive on the purchasing power equivalent of less than one U.S. dollar per day. .... Philanthropy on this scale raises many ethical questions: Why are the people who are giving doing so? Does it do any good? Should we praise them for giving so much or criticize them for not giving still more?

 New York Times
Sep 14, 2006 Princeton report slams Diebold touch-screen systems: Researchers created vote-stealing code; Diebold disputes claim

QUOTE: Computer science researchers at the university said they were able to create vote-stealing code that can be installed in a minute on Diebold hardware and change vote counts undetected.

 Computerworld
Sep 13, 2006 Harvard's fairness lesson

QUOTE: Harvard has come to believe that the practice unfairly favors students from sophisticated high schools and families -- and that binding programs favor those who have little concern about financial aid.

 Boston Globe
Sep 04, 2006 Many Entry-Level Workers Feel Pinch of Rough Market

QUOTE: young people in the nation’s work force face a choppy job market in which entry-level wages have often trailed inflation, making it hard for many to cope with high housing costs and rising college debt loads.

 New York Times
Sep 04, 2006 Stolen Lives: Some ID Theft Is Not for Profit, but to Get a Job

QUOTE: Though most people think of identity theft as a financial crime, one of the most common forms involves illegal immigrants using fraudulent Social Security numbers to conduct their daily lives. With tacit acceptance from some employers and poor coordination among government agencies, this practice provides the backbone of some low-wage businesses and a boon to the Social Security trust fund.

 New York Times
Sep 01, 2006 Short End: Tall people earn more because they're smarter.

QUOTE: It is well-documented that short people earn less money than tall people do...Higher intelligence resolves the puzzle of higher pay for the tall but begs the question of why height and intelligence are related in the first place. It is possible that early childhood care, including prenatal care, can increase both height and cognitive ability. But maybe the Fates just have it in for short people.

 Slate
Aug 25, 2006 Fed Chief Sees Faster Pace for Globalization

QUOTE: If Mr. Bernanke had a message to political leaders, it was that they needed to acknowledge the costs of globalization, in terms of lost jobs, disrupted livehoods and wrenching change and help their constituents come to terms with them.

 New York Times
Aug 24, 2006 Morning After Pill Is Cleared for Wider Sales

QUOTE: The Food and Drug Administration today approved over-the-counter sales of the “morning-after” contraceptive pill to women 18 and older, resolving one of the most contentious issues in the agency’s 100-year history.

 New York Times
Jul 19, 2006 Colleges Make Way for Internships

QUOTE: as many as half of all internships are unpaid or low-paid...Some students even effectively end up paying tuition to do unpaid internships because some companies, concerned about labor laws, require students to receive academic credit for the experience.

 New York Times
May 07, 2006 Contra-Contraception

QUOTE: It may be news to many people that contraception as a matter of right and public health is no longer a given, but politicians and those in the public health profession know it well.

 New York Times
Mar 22, 2005 Learning to Stand Out Among the Standouts: Some Asian Americans Say Colleges Expect More From Them

QUOTE: "...selective colleges routinely reject [Asian American applicants] in favor of African American, Hispanic and even white applicants with lower scores in order to have more diverse campuses and make up for past discrimination."

 Washington Post
May 02, 2004 How to End Grade Inflation

QUOTE: Incorporating 'degree of difficulty' into students' G.P.A.'s would turn campuses upside down; it would eliminate faculty capriciousness precisely by factoring it in...it would yield a world in which the average grade was never anything more or less than the middle of the scale.

 New York Times
Nov 09, 2003 Rich Colleges Receiving Richest Share of U.S. Aid

QUOTE: The federal government typically gives the wealthiest private universities, which often serve the smallest percentage of low-income students, significantly more financial aid money than their struggling counterparts with much greater shares of poor students.

New York Times
Mar 30, 2003 Attack on Colleges' Aid to Minorities Widens

QUOTE: The Center for Equal Opportunity and the American Civil Rights Institute, two groups that oppose affirmative action, have threatened to file federal complaints against about 30 universities, contending that their reliance on race to determine eligibility for certain awards and academic enrichment programs violates civil rights law.

 New York Times

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