Recommended read. This essay largely does an excellent job of addressing some of the challenges "elite" schools are facing today, with one stumble, I think. The following two sentences get their own paragraph:
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I have little sympathy for the lingo of “safe spaces” and “microaggressions.” They strike me as the wrong way to describe the University’s inclusivity goals.
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... and they strike me as the words of a person whose place at Princeton was never questioned because of their race, or was advised while there that their grade in certain professors' courses could be improved by wearing a short skirt and sitting in the front row.
I get that what Eisgruber *means* is that he would prefer a different terminology; he declares in the following paragraph that Princeton offers 'what might ... be called "safe spaces"'. However, he offers no reason for why he'd prefer a different terminology, and provides no alternative terminology, so his little diatribe is not a useful one. It would have been better to simply exclude that paragraph from the essay.
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