Residential College 7
New College East | |
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Residential college | |
Princeton University | |
Coordinates | 40°20′33″N 74°39′17″W / 40.342411°N 74.654673°WCoordinates: 40°20′33″N 74°39′17″W / 40.342411°N 74.654673°W |
Established | 2022 |
Sister college | New College West |
Undergraduates | around 500[1] |
New College East (known as Perelman College and Residential College 7 until 2021) is the future seventh residential college at Princeton University. It is scheduled to be opened before September of 2022.[1] The construction of New College East will increase the undergraduate student body population by 10 percent, or 500 students. It aims to be LEED Gold certified.[2] Deborah Berke Partners are the architects of the new buildings.[3] A sister college, tentatively titled New College West, will also be built adjacent to New College East, and share the same dining facility.[2] New College West will house students displaced by the demolition of First College, which is to be replaced with Hobson College in 2026.[4]
Perelman family donation[]
The college was originally made possible by a $65 million gift from the Perelman Family Foundation, run by Debra '96 and Ronald Perelman.[5] Prior to the removal of the Perelman name in 2021, it would have been the first residential college at Princeton to be named after Jewish people.[6]
In June 2021, Princeton University removed the Perelman name from New College East after the Perelman Family Foundation ceased payments to the University under their gift agreement.[7]
References[]
- ^ a b Eisgruber, Christopher. "State of the University 2020". Princeton University. Princeton University. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ a b "New Residential Colleges, including Perelman College". Princeton University Facilities. Princeton University. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ Strauss, Eric. "Perelman gift to fund new residential college at Princeton". ROI-NJ. ROI-NJ. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Home Page | Construction at Princeton". 2021-11-01. Archived from the original on 2021-11-01. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
- ^ Adams, Susan. "The Billionaire Perelmans Give Princeton $65M". Forbes. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ JTA. "Princeton is naming a residential college after Ronald and Debra Perelman". The Times of Israel. The Times of Israel. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ Hess, Naomi. "Perelman name removed from Residential College 7". The Daily Princetonian. The Daily Princetonian. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- Colleges of Princeton University