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Will Austin's avatar

This is great note and bit of data - thanks for sharing!

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Melissa's avatar

Will -- I would love to talk to you about Princeton's 10-year journey to do this. It's been the primary drive of President Eisgruber's tenure: expansion to drive inclusive excellence. The campus has added two new residential colleges in the last five years, which is a long undertaking - from a planning and execution perspective. I don't have the details at my finger tips, but it's a fantastic example of the leadership and shared effort required to make some of these things happen. (And takes real resources to both build and maintain.)

Some relevant highlights are here: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/05/09/princeton-celebrates-magnificent-additions-campus-yeh-college-and-new-college-west

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Michael Dannenberg's avatar

Fun fact: If elite colleges subject to the federal endowment tax that applies to institutions with more than $500,000 in wealth per student let in enough more students, they could escape the tax entirely.

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Marcy Murninghan's avatar

Very informative, well written piece. Thank you!

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Will Austin's avatar

Thank you!

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Ben's avatar

I'd like faculty and administrators with vocal social justice bents at private institutions like Harvard or Columbia or Duke or others to explain how they justify their employment at places that operate counter to the tenets of social justice. They seem more vocal about countless issues that don't touch on the non-profit status, the endowment size or the carefully curated eilte-ness (while 20% of the student body are undeserving athletes and children of alums).

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