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Wendy Kopp, co-founder and CEO of Teach For All and a 1989 Princeton graduate, has been selected as the speaker for the University’s 2022 Baccalaureate ceremony, to be held May 22.
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications May 15, 2021 8:30 p.m. At Princeton’s virtual Class Day ceremony on Saturday, May 15, author, comedian and host of “The Daily Show” Trevor Noah urged seniors to foster friendships that create “home” wherever they are, to travel to challenge their worldview and to not let the lessons of compassion learned in the pandemic recede into history. “Comedy for me has always been that place where we can talk about the uncomfortable truths," Trevor Noah, host of "The Daily Show," told members of the Class of 2021 during the virtual Class Day ceremony Sa...
President Eisgruber's 2021 Commencement Address "Together, Six Feet Apart" by the Office of Communications May 16, 2021 12:31 p.m. Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications President Christopher L. Eisgruber's address "Together, Six Feet Apart," as prepared for delivery at Princeton University's Commencement ceremony on May 16, 2021. Tradition allows the Princeton president to share a few thoughts each year with our graduating students at Commencement. I regard that as a great privilege in any year, but especially so in this one, when all of you have persevered valian...
Don't show me this message again✕ Hod father: Boris Johnson, an unlikely leader of the working class (PA) I didn’t believe it at first. It has taken a long time to absorb and understand it. It seems so contrary to everything we have always known about politics in Britain that it requires a big adjustment of our world view. The link between class and voting has been reversed. People are now more likely to vote Tory if they are working class than if they are middle class – and the other way round for Labour. It was not until the elections last week that this fact suddenly became a stapl...
Share Prairie View A&M University President Ruth J. Simmons, who previously served as president of both Brown University and Smith College, will deliver the keynote address at Princeton University’s 2021 Baccalaureate ceremony. Simmons was selected by the Committee on Honorary Degrees, which includes University trustees, faculty members and students, and approved by the Board of Trustees. Ruth Simmons Photo courtesy of Prairie View A&M University “Ruth Simmons is a visionary leader who has throughout her career demonstrated the commitments to education, civic engagement, and social respon...