After graduating from Princeton as an English concentrator, Jarrett earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Brown University. He began teaching at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2002 and later taught at Boston University before joining the faculty at NYU.
In his role at Princeton, Jarrett said he hopes to recruit, cultivate, and retain distinguished faculty. Jarrett said in a University statement that he also aims “to help advance the University’s longstanding commitment to having a positive impact on humanity.”
Jarrett is the first person appointed as dean of the faculty who was not already a current Princeton faculty member. He will succeed electrical engineering professor Sanjeev Kulkarni, who has served in the role since 2017.
The University announced a MAJOR GIFT from Wyc Grousbeck ’83 and his wife, Emilia Fazzalari, to support the expansion of the undergraduate student body. A dormitory in one of the two new residential colleges being built south of Poe Field will be named Grousbeck Hall. The University did not release the amount of the gift. Grousbeck is governor, managing partner, and CEO of the NBA’s Boston Celtics. Fazzalari is CEO of Cincoro Tequila.
The University offered admission to 16 TRANSFER APPLICANTS, 1.2 percent of the 1,349 who applied. Of those offered admission this year, 10 are on active U.S. military duty or have served in the military. Nine of those admitted are first-generation college students.
Nine University TRUSTEES began new terms July 1: MARISA DEMEO ’88, an associate judge for the D.C. Superior Court; BLAIR EFFRON ’84, co-founder of Centerview Partners; LORI DICKERSON FOUCHÉ ’91, former CEO of TIAA Financial Solutions; BOB HUGIN ’76, former CEO of Celgene; KATHY KIELY ’77, the Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism; TIMOTHY KINGSTON ’87, the chairman of Goldman Sachs in Chile; ELIZABETH MYERS ’92, a managing director at J.P. Morgan; KATHRYN ROTH-DOUQUET *91, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Blue Star Families; and young-alumni trustee MORGAN SMITH ’21, a Project 55 Fellow in Chicago.
Members of the UNIVERSITY’S JEWISH COMMUNITY were harassed on at least two occasions during Commencement weekend, according to a May 21 statement from the Center for Jewish Life’s board of directors. Recent exchanges on social media and residential-college listservs, the board added, had “moved beyond political disagreement to antisemitism.” President Eisgruber ’83 responded to the incidents in a statement posted online. “Sharp, intense, and provocative disagreement about Israel and Palestine is fully consistent with the debate that must occur on college campuses,” he wrote. “Harassment, heckling, stereotyping, and intimidation are not.”
Fifteen professors are transferring to EMERITUS STATUS after a combined total of more than 500 years on the faculty:
CHIH-P’ING CHOU, East Asian studies, 42 years
LYNN ENQUIST, molecular biology, 27 years
EDWARD FELTEN, computer science and public affairs, 28 years
ANDREW L. FORD, classics, 35 years
OLGA HASTY, Slavic languages and literatures, 28 years
MICHAEL JENNINGS, German, 40 years
GERTA KELLER, geosciences, 36 years
SARA MCLANAHAN, sociology and public affairs, 31 years
ALEXANDER NEHAMAS *71, philosophy and comparative literature, 31 years
PHILIP NORD, history, 40 years
JAMES RICHARDSON ’71, creative writing, 41 years
THOMAS SHENK, molecular biology, 37 years
YAKOV SINAI, mathematics, 28 years
MARTA TIENDA, sociology, 24 years
ROBERT J. WUTHNOW, sociology, 45 years
Princeton will require all students to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination by Aug. 1 in order to enroll for the fall semester. Vaccination will be required for faculty and staff as well. In a May 20 letter to the campus community, President Eisgruber ’83, said the University expects students to be in residence and teaching to be in person when classes begin Sept. 1. Extracurricular activities are expected to resume, and the eating clubs are slated to reopen as well.
In May, the New Jersey state senate and assembly passed Laura Wooten’s Law, requiring the state’s middle schools to teach civics and provide “the knowledge and skills for active citizenship.” Wooten, a former member of Princeton’s dining services staff who died in 2019, was the longest-serving poll worker in the United States.
For the Record
An earlier version misstated one detail about Gene Andrew Jarrett ’97’s teaching career. He was a professor and faculty administrator at Boston University before coming to NYU.
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3 Years AgoAn item in the July/August issue misstated a detail about new Dean of the Faculty Gene Andrew Jarrett ’97’s teaching career. He was a professor and faculty administrator at Boston University before going to NYU.