“To begin with, ours is an increasingly pluralistic society, and, simply put, Princeton and its peers do not come close to looking like America today,” concluded the report by the university’s Trustee Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity.
It has been nearly 50 years since Princeton University began admitting women and actively recruiting minority students, but the school is still too white and too male, according to a new report that calls for big changes on the Ivy League campus.
Christopher Eisgruber, the university’s new president, and the school’s board of trustees signed off today on a series of recommendations by a campus committee convened to take a hard look at campus diversity.
The 19-member group found that Princeton has made great strides in welcoming minorities, women and low-income students into its undergraduate classes in recent decades. But the rest of the school — including graduate programs, faculty and top administrators — still lacks diversity.
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