Graduate students in the humanities who have successfully completed their general examination and who have already demonstrated excellence in teaching as an AI in a previous semester may apply to participate in a pilot initiative that allows them to co-design and co-teach an undergraduate course at Princeton with a faculty mentor. The aim of this initiative is twofold:  first, to facilitate graduate student intellectual development and pedagogical and professional experience under the guidance of a seasoned mentor, specifically through the design and full co-teaching of a course; and second, to provide innovative new team-taught classes for Princeton’s undergraduates.

PUPP is a comprehensive college preparation initiative that supports low-income, high achieving high school students from high schools in Mercer County. Our goal is to prepare our students for admission to and success within our nation's top colleges and universities. In addition, PUPP co-leads the Greater Trenton College Access Network, a collaboration among a range of organizations that work on youth development, college access and workforce development. We have nurtured deep relationships with campus partners, local schools and communities, and others in order to provide a high level of strategic and impactful opportunities for young people in the region.

PTI provides credit-bearing college courses to inmates at New Jersey correctional facilities near Princeton’s campus. Courses in several disciplines are taught by volunteer instructors, including Princeton faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, alums, and advanced undergraduates.  Graduate student volunteers have the opportunity to teach their own courses in a nontraditional, meaningful setting through this initiative. 

The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) fosters relationships that bring community-identified priorities and interests into conversation with academic learning goals through community-based research, empirical analysis, service learning, citizen science, participant observation, public humanities, practicing arts, and other collaborative modalities and methods of knowledge co-creation. ProCES supports academic collaborations between Princeton faculty, staff, students, and community partners that create opportunities to learn from community experience and expertise. Partners include non-profit, public sector, and non-governmental organizations and grassroots community leaders representing a variety of fields as well as racial and environmental justice and social change frameworks.

The Program in Teacher Preparation, commonly referred to as Teacher Prep, prepares students to serve as teachers and educational leaders in our nation’s secondary schools. The program is open to Princeton undergraduates, graduate students, and alums, who may return to Princeton at any time to complete the program. Students completing the program earn a University certificate and are eligible for a New Jersey State teaching license, which is transferable to other states.

Princeton graduate students who will be registered in Dissertation Completion Enrollment (DCE) status are invited to apply for one-year positions as Quin Morton Teaching Fellows through the Princeton Writing Program. Quin Morton Teaching Fellows teach one topic-based writing seminar of their own design each semester and participate in an intensive faculty development program, which includes meetings and workshops on seminar design and writing pedagogy.

ReMatch is a research mentoring program designed to connect undergraduate students and graduate students, two historically unconnected populations at Princeton, through their shared interest in academic research. ReMatch offers fellowship funding for mentorship connections and joint research projects. The graduate student mentors come from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, representing research opportunities of interest to a wide spectrum of undergraduates.

Each of the undergraduate residential colleges at Princeton includes up to ten graduate students who live among the undergraduates within the college and offer academic, intellectual, social, and cultural programming and support to those undergraduates. Residents graduate students (RGSs) are appointed each spring through an interview process managed by the Office of the Dean of the College.

Science Outreach was created in 2022 to facilitate mutually beneficial and sustainable relationships between Princeton University Science educators and researchers on the one hand, and local K-12 school districts, non-profit organizations, and community stakeholders on the other. Science Outreach serves as a nexus connecting faculty, students, and postdocs with youth, schoolteachers, nonprofit organizations, and the broader community with the goals of increasing engagement, participation, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields.  

The McGraw Center offers extensive programs and services for graduate students and postdoctoral associates related to their development as both scholars and teachers. Programs are based on current research on effective teaching, adult learning, mentoring, and well-being and are led by trained graduate student fellows or by our professional staff. They include: Assistant in Instruction Training and Scholarly Approaches to Teaching. The McGraw Center also offers helpful resources for graduate students.