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Opening Remarks for the Class of 2027

Hello everyone!  I am Jill Dolan, the Dean of the College, and I’d like to welcome you as THE GREAT PRINCETON CLASS OF 2027!  My … Continue reading

August 26, 2023 · Leave a Comment

Coming Back – A Princeton education in the ‘new normal’

In May, The New York Times published an essay by Jonathan Malesic, a writing teacher at Southern Methodist University, titled “My College Students Are Not … Continue reading

September 27, 2022

Handling Knowledge: Princeton University Press and the Pleasure of the Book

Dean Dolan delivered these remarks at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Princeton University Press (PUP) Association, at Prospect House, on Princeton’s campus, on December … Continue reading

February 14, 2020

Opening Remarks to the Class of 2023

August 31, 2019 I have the pleasure of ending our session today with a few final thoughts of my own to send you off into … Continue reading

October 1, 2019

Opening Remarks to the Class of 2021

September 2, 2017 I want to speak with you tonight about two things:  politics and love.  Your class arrives at a complicated time in our … Continue reading

September 2, 2017

Thoughts on Faith

On November 29, 2016, the Office of Religious Life at Princeton honored its student leaders of faith groups.  I was fortunate to be invited as … Continue reading

December 8, 2016

Welcome to the 2016- 2017 Academic Year

September 29, 2016 Dear Princeton Students, We write to welcome you to the 2016- 2017 academic year.  This fall, 1,306 new undergraduates and 647 new graduate … Continue reading

September 29, 2016