Princeton creating $5M professorship that no other N.J. college has
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
With a $5 million endowment from Google’s former CEO and his philanthropist wife, Princeton University will establish a professorship of Indigenous Studies, creating a first of its kind position for any New Jersey university.
Amid a reckoning over racial justice and the Trump Administration’s attacks on Critical Race Theory, the announcement comes “at a time when people around the globe are giving new and much needed attention to the multiple strands that compose national histories,” Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber said, according to an announcement from the school.