In response to: In search for a president, new committee gets down to business
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November 2024
Princetonians lead think tanks; the perfect football season of 1964; Nobel in physics.
The committee that will search for a replacement for President Tilghman includes 11 alumni. Of the nine who are not members of Princeton’s faculty or staff, five work in finance and two work as health-care executives (Campus Notebook, Nov. 14). None of the University’s many accomplished alumni in literature, music, or media — to name a few fields — can be found on the list. If the composition of the committee reflects the University’s values, it suggests a lopsided and impoverished view of who and what matters to the Princeton community.