Sometimes, it’s not very good to give, or to receive. Princeton University is in the midst of a contentious legal dispute with a former donor’s family concerning a gift now worth almost $900 million....
In a legal battle watched nervously by universities around the country, a New Jersey judge yesterday sent to trial a dispute between Princeton University and the heirs of a supermarket fortune and left open...
Princeton University could lose $1.5 billion as the result of a critical development in a five-year legal battle that could influence how much say donors have in determining how nonprofit organizations use their gifts....
Sometimes the stars seem to come into alignment. Just as I was getting ready to write a column (this column) on a new documentary about free speech and political correctness on campus, the film’s...
I am old enough to remember when America’s colleges and universities seemed to be the most open-minded and intellectually rigorous institutions in our society. Today, something very much like the opposite is true: America’s...
To get a sense of what the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has in mind when it talks about reforming higher education, you could start with the venue of its latest meeting. Last...
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