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Princeton Chooses Its Provost to Become Its Next President Christopher L. Eisgruber will replace Shirley M. Tilghman, left.Credit...Mel Evans/Associated PressPrinceton University announced on Sunday that Christopher L. Eisgruber, a constitutional scholar who has been the university’s provost for nine years, would be its next president.
Mr. Eisgruber, 51, is replacing Shirley M. Tilghman, who became the second woman to lead an Ivy League university when she rose to the Princeton presidency in 2001. She announced her retirement last September.
The announcement followed a six-month search. Mr. Eisgruber — who graduated from the university in 1983 and returned as a professor in 2001 before becoming its No. 2 officer — will start on July 1, becoming the university’s 20th president.
“Chris Eisgruber has all of the qualities we were looking for in Princeton’s next president,” Kathryn A. Hall, the chairwoman of the board of trustees, said in a statement.
“He has played a central role in many of the key initiatives of recent years, some of which he now will be responsible for bringing to fruition.”
Among those initiatives were a $1.88 billion fund-raising campaign, several large construction projects and an expansion of the university’s financial aid program. But Mr. Eisgruber also helped oversee contraction after the 2008 financial crisis, which shrank Princeton’s endowment by 22.7 percent, prompting painful cutbacks and layoffs.
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