Weathering the storm

Financial aid rises with the economy’s downturn; stability expected for the budget, Aspire campaign

Published in the Nov. 19, 2008, issue

The University has been forced to increase its financial-aid spending by more than $3 million, and the timing and scope of campus construction projects may be adjusted in response to the financial crisis. But Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 said last...Read more

Shepherding the endowment through the Great Depression

Published in the Nov. 19, 2008, issue

The recent economic downturn, with the inevitable comparisons to 1929, forcefully recalls the great and exceedingly modest Dean Mathey 1912 and his role in shepherding Princeton’s endowment. A financial wunderkind who became a partner at the prominent...Read more

Partnerships aim to increase income diversity

Published in the Nov. 19, 2008, issue

  Olivia Quach ’12 was a junior at Harrisonburg (Va.) High School when she learned about QuestBridge, a nonprofit program created to increase the number of talented, low-income students at elite U.S. universities. Quach, whose Chinese parents emigrated from...Read more

A behind-the-scenes look at the Supreme Court

Published in the Nov. 19, 2008, issue

  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may not agree with colleague Antonin Scalia on many judicial issues, but she does concede that the conservative justice has the high court’s best singing voice. Ginsburg shared this and other tidbits from “the...Read more

In the news

Published in the Nov. 19, 2008, issue

RAJIV VINNAKOTA ’93, co-founder and managing director of the SEED Foundation, and CLAIRE MAX *72, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will receive the University’s highest awards for alumni at Alumni Day...Read more