October 3, 2024 Professor Ronald Levy’s 50 years of finding cancer cures As a student at Palo Alto High School in the late 1950s, Ronald Levy M.D. ’68 always viewed the higher education juggernaut on the…
September 10, 2024 Dear Faculty Senate: Our creative writing lecturers deserve better I remember the first Faculty Senate meeting I attended like it was yesterday. After signing up on the RSVP list, I just showed up…
August 9, 2024 Jay Hamilton to ‘foster success’ as new vice provost for undergraduate education James “Jay” T. Hamilton, Department of Communication chair and Stanford Journalism Program director, is set to begin his role as vice provost for undergraduate…
May 24, 2024 UGS debates fossil fuel companies funding research The newly elected 26th Undergraduate Senate (UGS) heard from Graduate Student Council members Perry Nielsen M.S. ’24 and second year Ph.D. in Earth System…
April 12, 2024 Faculty Senate debates undoing Scott Atlas censure Jonathan Levin ’94 made his first remarks as incoming president to the Faculty Senate on Thursday, at a meeting where the Senate continued to…
April 5, 2024 Instructors generate different approaches to AI As generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like ChatGPT change academia and raise concerning implications for education, instructors across the University have taken varying responses…
February 23, 2024 Pro-Palestine faculty group encourages education on Gaza Students advocating for Palestine amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza war have made progress through public displays of protest, including the longest student-run sit-in in Stanford…
February 1, 2024 Earth systems students oppose proposed name change to major Over 100 students signed a Dec. 6 letter to the Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS) dean opposing a proposal to rename the earth systems…
December 1, 2023 Strawser | The Faculty Senate and VPSA are keeping secrets at students’ expense Since the Honor Code took effect in 1921, Stanford has expected students to report one another’s alleged cheating during exams, thus keeping instructors (i.e….
November 2, 2023 Strawser | Uplift undergraduate voices in the VPUE search I am cautiously looking forward to the formation of the search committee tasked to find the University’s next Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education (VPUE)….