The Venture Forward campaign is entering its final year, and it is already transforming the University in spectacular fashion.

Venture Forward is a mission-driven campaign. We’ve not set any internal or external dollar goals. Instead, we have focused intensely on gifts and initiatives that advance key priorities as defined in Princeton’s…

Princeton’s excellence depends on many factors, but foremost among them is the caliber of the professors who produce world-class research, educate our students, help to run the institution, and conduct searches to identify potential colleagues.

At Princeton, the most important guarantor of faculty quality is a committee known as “the…

I am honored by the invitation to speak with you on this, the holiest of days in the Jewish calendar.

If I may, I would like to start on a personal note and tell you a bit about my family history.

My great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch, was a lawyer in Breslau, Germany, and a prominent member of the Reform community in that city.

For Opening Exercises on September 1, we gathered on the front lawn of Nassau Hall to welcome Princeton’s new transfer students and the Class of 2028. I invited students to carefully consider the meaning and value of liberal arts education as they pursue their Princeton journey, and to be inspired by the “transcendent” experience of Pre-read…

Mr. President, officers and members of the society, friends, and guests:

It is an honor and a pleasure to address you as the American Whig-Cliosophic Society convenes for another year in its long and illustrious history.

This is the second consecutive year that I have spoken to your Society.  Last year, I was able to stay for…

“Two Threats to the Ivy Athletics Model” was first published in the September 2024 version of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

The Gary Walters ’67 Princeton Varsity Club Awards Banquet is among my favorite events during Reunions…

As delivered

Please let me begin by saying, again, what a pleasure it is to welcome you to Princeton! I am delighted to greet all of you who gather here today as you begin your Princeton journeys.

The vibrant weeks at the beginning of each new academic year invigorate all of us, and they are especially memorable for…

Let me begin by extending a warm and personal welcome to all of Princeton’s new transfer students and everyone in Princeton’s Great Class of 2028!  I am so happy that you are here, and I look forward to getting to know you in the days, weeks, and years ahead.

I will greet all of you more formally a few days from now at Opening…

To the New Jersey Congressional Delegation

Dear Member of Congress:

As presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities throughout New Jersey, we write to convey the importance of federal research funding to our state and request that you support – and advocate for – robust funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in…

Commencement 2024: ‘Leaning into Life, at Princeton and Beyond’ was first published in the July 2024 edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

On May 28, I had the honor of presiding…