As we near the end of 2025, we are grateful to all of you who have rallied around Princeton and American higher education — whether you’ve called your lawmakers, carried a Stand Up sign in the P-rade or simply stayed informed through this newsletter. Thank you!
Over the past few weeks, campus has been buzzing with great reasons to Stand Up, including the opening of the new Princeton University Art Museum, the Many Minds, Many Stripes conference celebrating graduate alumni, and the announcement of a significant development for quantum computing. Read on for the scoop.
Standing Up for academic excellence
Watch this video from the recent conference, Many Minds, Many Stripes, which celebrated graduate alumni, Princeton’s 125-year legacy of graduate education, and Princeton’s values of standing up for academic and research excellence.
In the news
- President Eisgruber appeared on CBS Sunday Morning for a segment about how universities are addressing challenges to higher education by protecting free speech. He also had engaging conversations recently with Princeton professors Julian Zelizer and Eddie Glaude, Jr.
- The Princeton University Art Museum reopened last month in a breathtaking new building at the heart of campus that offers unparalleled access to more than 5,000 years of art for students, faculty, staff and the public. The museum, as always, is free and open to all, underscoring Princeton’s abiding commitment to the humanities.
- In a significant step forward for technology that is key to American success and security, Princeton engineers have built a superconducting qubit that lasts three times longer than today’s best versions, putting quantum computing on the fast track for great advances.
- Brian Heuser, an associate professor at Vanderbilt University, contributed a piece for Inside Higher Education that argues that universities are the R&D labs of our national security infrastructure. He contends that “Universities are not optional in the defense of this republic — they are indispensable.”
- College: Proud Sponsor of America at its Best is a new campaign from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education that is a “grass-roots movement aimed at reminding people of the countless ways that higher education makes American life better — regardless of whether you have a college degree.” Check it out!
Support the Annual Giving Campaign
Stand up for Princeton by participating in this year’s Annual Giving campaign. Because of budget uncertainties associated with federal funding, the University will need to draw even more heavily on Annual Giving and other sources. Support is always welcome, and every gift counts.
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