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Princeton’s Office of Finance Appoints Minority-Owned Asset Management Firm. Will Others Follow Suit?
Princeton University’s Office of Finance and Treasury signaled its commitment to working with minority-owned financial firms this week when it announced that it had entrusted Ramirez Asset Management of New York, part of the oldest Hispanic investment firm in the U.S., with investing 50% of its latest bond proceeds.
July 21, 2021
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Higher Ed’s Most Common Rationale for Diversity Favors White Students More than Black
Ask a university administrator why they value diversity and they’ll likely give you one of two rationales. One is instrumental: “diversity provides viewpoints that are educationally fruitful for everyone.” The other is moral: “diversity is just and intrinsic to undoing years of systemic racism.” But is one rationale better than the other? And which one do students prefer? These were the driving questions behind a recent study conducted by Princeton researchers.
May 6, 2021
News Roundup
Princeton Will Pay Almost $1M in Pay Back to Female Professors in Settlement
The Department of Labor found that Princeton University is guilty of pay discrimination between 2012 and 2014, though the investigation dates back to nearly a decade ago. Princeton has agreed to pay close to $1 million in back pay to its female professors, reported CNN. According to CNN, 106 women professors in full-time positions were […]
October 13, 2020
African-American
Mellody Hobson to Establish New Residence College at Alma Mater, Princeton University
Mellody Hobson and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation have made the lead gift to establish a new residential college at Princeton University in 2023, according to officials at Princeton University. The Hobson College will be the first residential college at Princeton named for a Black woman and will be constructed on the site of First College, […]
October 9, 2020
COVID-19
Young Invincibles: Elite Institutions Should Accept Stimulus Funds
Late last week, the University of Pennsylvania joined its rich, elite peers, like Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities, in refusing its share of funds from the coronavirus stimulus package. It was a laudable move on the part of these universities, many observers said, but one advocacy group, Young Invincibles, said on Monday these universities shouldn’t refuse the money.
April 27, 2020
HBCUs
Princeton and Five HBCUs Teach Students About Archives
Princeton University, along with five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), launched a program to introduce students to the archival field. The program, titled Archives Research and Collaborative History (ARCH), recently held its inaugural weeklong session at Princeton. The goal of ARCH is to “engage students and professionals in the work of the archival field, […]
August 2, 2018
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Academicians Celebrated in ‘Black Scholars Matter’ Series, part 3
This is the final in a three-part Black History Month series celebrating Black academicians and their work.
February 15, 2018
African-American
Diverse Conversations: Why Doesn’t Minority Faculty Look Like America?
A recent report found that, at some schools, like Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and Princeton, there are more foreign teachers than Hispanic and Black teachers combined.
December 23, 2015
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