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...students.During the years Ostriker served as Princeton’s provost, he oversaw the University’s push to reduce student loans, an achievement he took pride in, according to both Socolow and Ostriker’s daughter.After stepping down from his post in 2001 upon Shirley M. Tilghman??s selection as Princeton’s president, Ostriker returned to Cambridge University to assume the prestigious position of the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy.He returned to Princeton in 2005, and last year was elected the treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences...
...Princeton plans to increase the fraction of the endowment it plans to spend—upping the spending rate from a projected 6.25 percent to 6.7 percent next year, which is higher than its usual target rate of 4 to 5.25 percent, according to Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman??s letter to the community on Monday. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...idea of Princeton’s commitment to expand its faculty and its courses in the field—that Princeton is committed to furthering the study of race relations must be applauded by anyone who takes seriously the role of education in solving social problems.”Tilghman??s statement comes from the recommendations made by the President’s appointed committee of leading faculty which is chaired by Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, a former Harvard professor who has been working towards its proposal since fall 2005. Also on the committee was Princeton religion...
...taken toward making academic careers compatible with family caregiving responsibilities,” the presidents wrote. The statement came nearly ten months after three of the presidents—Stanford’s John Hennessy, MIT’s Susan Hockfield, and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman??penned an op-ed for The Boston Globe that appeared to criticize Summers’ now infamous remarks on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science. “The question we must ask as a society is not ‘can women excel...
...Tilghman??s suggestion of a longer tenure clock—one that would give professors more time to both raise a family and complete the amount of research and scholarship necessary to earn tenure—is one potential solution...