President Eisgruber deserves strong support from Princeton’s alumni community for his defense of academic freedom in a recent op-ed in The Atlantic. Our group of a dozen Compadres, MPAs from 1967 and 1968, has not hesitated to question the strategic direction of the School of Public and International Affairs, but we stand shoulder to shoulder with Princeton’s leadership in resisting financial and political intimidation. As incoming president of the American Association of Universities, we hope that President Eisgruber will succeed in mobilizing 70 other research university presidents to protect America’s one-of-a-kind higher education assets.
President Eisgruber deserves strong support from Princeton’s alumni community for his defense of academic freedom in a recent op-ed in The Atlantic. Our group of a dozen Compadres, MPAs from 1967 and 1968, has not hesitated to question the strategic direction of the School of Public and International Affairs, but we stand shoulder to shoulder with Princeton’s leadership in resisting financial and political intimidation. As incoming president of the American Association of Universities, we hope that President Eisgruber will succeed in mobilizing 70 other research university presidents to protect America’s one-of-a-kind higher education assets.