February 6, 2024 Editorial Board | Picking a president: What really matters Stanford is on the hunt for a president. We’re not the only ones: Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania are also scrambling to find…
November 29, 2023 From the community | What should a university stand for? In a recent article, a former provost lamented the loss in our university and society of “the ability to disagree, to dispute, to debate,…
June 15, 2023 From the Community | A note on academic freedom and institutional orthodoxy There has been a great deal of conversation in our community recently over a motion introduced in the Faculty Senate. Several articles have appeared…
May 31, 2023 From the Community | A parable of academic freedom Dear Prof. Berk, Together with Prof. Lipsick, I brought before the Faculty Senate, in its May 11 session, the resolution that calls for the…
May 30, 2023 Editorial Board | MTL is abusing the concept of Academic Freedom President Marc Tessier-Lavigne expressed unusual fervor about the Hoover Institution when several members of the Faculty Senate proposed a resolution earlier this month to…
May 29, 2023 From the Community | Why did we propose a resolution about the association of Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Mercer with Stanford? On May 11, 2023, we proposed a resolution in the Faculty Senate requesting that the association of Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Mercer in all…
