Shirley M. Tilghman, the president of Princeton University since 2001, will be stepping down from her post in June. She announced her decision on Saturday in an e-mail to the Princeton community, our colleague Ariel Kaminer reports:
During Dr. Tilghman?s administration, the university, which already had the highest per-student endowment of any college in the country, raised vast amounts of money. The latest capital campaign, begun and completed in difficult economic times, brought in $1.88 billion. But in the letter she noted, ?There is a natural rhythm to university presidencies.?
In an interview later, she explained that in June, at the conclusion of that fund-raising campaign, ?I began to think about what I had set out to do as president and what remained to be done. I concluded somewhat immodestly that every important initiative I set in motion was either concluded ? done ? or was now on an irreversible path to success where it really wouldn?t require a lot of my time or attention to ensure that it would be fully realized.?
Ms. Tilghman is the third Ivy League president this year to announce that she is leaving. Richard C. Levin announced in August that he plans to leave Yale University after 20 years at the helm. In July, Jim Yong Kim, the former president of Dartmouth College, became the new leader of the World Bank.
Brown University has a new president this year: Christina Hull Paxson. She succeeds Ruth Simmons, the first black leader of an Ivy League school, who announced in September 2011 that she would be stepping down.
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