Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton,New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey,Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747,and then to the current site nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University.
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1,2013,through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township,both of which are now defunct. As of the 2020 United States census,the borough's population was 30,681,an increase of 2,109 (+7.4%) from the 2010 census combined count of 28,572. In the 2000 census,the two communities had a total population of 30,230,with 14,203 residents in the borough and 16,027 in the township.
Cedar Grove is a township in north central Essex County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census,the township's population was 12,980,an increase of 569 (+4.6%) from the 2010 census count of 12,411,which in turn reflected an increase of 111 (+0.9%) from the 12,300 counted in the 2000 census.
Lawrence Township is a township in Mercer County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located at the cross-roads between the Delaware Valley region to the southwest and the Raritan Valley region to the northeast,the township is an outer-ring suburb of New York City in the New York Metropolitan area,as defined by the United States Census Bureau,while also directly bordering the Philadelphia metropolitan area and is part of the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area.
Rider University is a private university in Lawrence Township,New Jersey. It consists of four academic units:the Norm Brodsky College of Business,the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,the College of Education and Human Services,and Westminster College of the Arts.
Grove City College (GCC) is a private,conservative Christian liberal arts college in Grove City,Pennsylvania. Founded in 1876 as a normal school,the college emphasizes a humanities core curriculum and offers 60 majors and six pre-professional programs with undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts,sciences,business,education,engineering,and music. The college has always been formally non-denominational,but in its first few decades its students and faculty were dominated by members of the Presbyterian Church,to the extent that it was sometimes described as having a de facto Presbyterian affiliation;in more recent decades,it and the Presbyterian Church have moved apart.
Cedarville University is a private Baptist university in Cedarville,Ohio. It is chartered by the state of Ohio,approved by the Ohio Board of Regents,and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Lawrence Seldon Bacow is an American economist and retired university administrator. He was the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023. Before that,Bacow was the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.
Harold Tafler Shapiro is an economist and university administrator. He is currently a professor of economics and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Shapiro served as the president of University of Michigan from 1980 to 1988 and as the president of Princeton University from 1988 to 2001.
Lawrence Harvey Schiffman is a professor at New York University;he was formerly Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education at Yeshiva University and Professor of Jewish Studies. He had previously been Chair of New York University's Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and served as the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is currently the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and Director of the Global Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies. He is a specialist in the Dead Sea Scrolls,Judaism in Late Antiquity,the history of Jewish law,and Talmudic literature.
The Hun School of Princeton is a private,coeducational,secondary boarding school located in Princeton in Mercer County,New Jersey,United States. The school serves students from sixth through twelfth grades. Currently,the head of school is Jonathan Brougham. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1963 and is accredited until January 2025. The acceptance rate for the school has been reported as 35%. It is also a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
Cedar Grove High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the Cedar Grove,in Essex County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey,operating as the lone secondary school of the Cedar Grove Schools. "Committed to Excellence" is the school's motto. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1968;The school's accreditation status was extended for seven years in Fall 2018.
Lawrence Woodmere Academy,also known as "LWA",and "Woodmere Academy",is an independent school located in Woodmere,New York,United States. It is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and the New York State Board of Regents.
Ira H. Fuchs is an internationally known authority on technology innovation in higher education and is a co-founder of BITNET,an important precursor of the Internet. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. Since 2012 he has been President of BITNET,LLC a consulting firm specializing in online learning and other applications of technology in higher education.
Cormac ÓGráda is an Irish economic historian and professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. His research has focused on the economic history of Ireland,Irish demographic changes,the Great Irish Famine,and the history of the Jews in Ireland.
Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater was an American Presbyterian philosopher.
Robert Albert Diaco is an American football coach and a former linebacker. He is a defensive analyst for the LSU Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). He played college football at the University of Iowa for coach Hayden Fry from 1992 to 1995. He then served as the head coach of the UConn Huskies (2014–2016).
Christopher Ludwig Eisgruber is an American academic and legal scholar who is serving as the 20th President of Princeton University,where he is also the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. He is also an expert on constitutional law,with an emphasis on law &religion and federal judicial appointments.
Laurie Aleta Carter is the 17th president of Lawrence University,a position she began in July 2021. She is Lawrence University's first BIPOC president. She has also served as president of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
