Colin Lahiff

I think @Princeton should seriously consider adopting the recommendations in the Yale report, which include: • Expand financial aid and make pricing more transparent and predictable for families • Reform admissions by prioritizing academic achievement, reducing legacy/athlete/donor preferences, and establishing a minimum academic threshold • Address grade inflation — Yale's median grade is now an A — through grade normalization and transcript percentiles. (Harvard and Yale are moving so we wouldn't be going alone this time.) • Combat self-censorship in classrooms, with joint faculty-student classroom principles • Pursue intellectual pluralism through departmental self-studies and investment in underrepresented scholarly traditions • Implement a device-free classroom default to restore focused learning • Create a shared civic education curriculum for first-year undergraduates • Streamline administrative bureaucracy with a transparent, faculty-involved review • Strengthen faculty governance, including faculty liaisons to the Board of Trustees • Communicate more openly and listen more broadly to public concerns

I know this is an unpopular take, but genuine expertise is going to be valued even more in coming years: I wanted to see if @OpenAI's ChatGPT would get the internal dynamics of how Reagan almost selected Baker, and then others pushed for Kirkpatrick, and then finally he settles on McFarlane to be his third APNSA... Not only does ChatGPT totally miss this, it doesn't even get the basic order right, insisting Carlucci is Reagan's 3rd APNSA, when he was in fact Reagan's 5th APNSA.