Alumni News
Alumni Careers Network links alumni and students
Since 1980, the Alumni Careers Network has grown from a few hundred alumni to more than 4,500. Participation is simple, but the impact is lasting. If you are not already an ACN volunteer, offering career advice to students and fellow alumni, join now.
Reserve spaces now for 2008 Princeton Journeys programs
With the publication of another RoadMap catalog, Princeton Journeys has announced a full roster of educational travel experiences for Princetonians of all stripes. Reserve your space on such 2008 programs as Brazil, Greece and the wildly popular journey to China and Tibet. For more information or to request this year's catalog, visit the Princeton Journeys website.
Goheen video wins CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Silver Medal
A video celebrating Robert Goheen’s 70-year association with the University, "Robert F. Goheen ’40 *48: Reflections of a President,” recently won a Council for Advancement and Support of Education 2007 Circle of Excellence Silver Medal. To view the 15-minute video, go to the website of the Office of the Vice President and Secretary.
From the PAW: The (un)silent generation speaks again
By the time members of the Princeton class of 1957 arrived on campus late in the summer of 1953, they already had been saddled with a dismal label, as part of what Time magazine had called the "silent generation." But a young politics professor named Otto Butz thought the characterization was just plain wrong. The young men he was meeting in precepts were bright and seemed to be interested in the world, even if their power to do much about it was limited by the fact that they were still students. Butz developed an idea for a book: Would his students be willing to write essays disproving the charge of indifference? The resulting work, "The Unsilent Generation," caused quite a stir when it was published not long after the class had graduated. Read the full article.