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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Straws in the Wind - Part 167

From the Daily Princetonian: In an interview with The Daily Princetonian this September, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 was asked about a lobbying group he reportedly spearheaded to fight the Trump administration’s increases to the tax on university endowments. When pressed on which other universities were involved in the group, he declined to name them. The ‘Prince’ reached out to the 20 U.S. universities with the largest endowments that could be hit by the new endowment tax about whether they were part of the lobbying group. 19 did not respond to multiple requests for comment and one, Rice University, declined to comment...

“When we asked particular institutions to work with us, some of them want to be more open about that, some of them want to be less so,” Eisgruber said...

Full story at https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/11/princeton-news-universities-eisgruber-endowment-lobbying-group.

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