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Kingscote Gardens, where the Title IX Office is located. (Photo: JORDAN PAYNE/ The Stanford Daily) on April 7, 2021 Stanford announced on Wednesday that it is appointing two men to key roles overseeing the response to sexual harassment and violence — a decision that drew mixed responses from survivor advocates. Deputy Athletics Director Patrick Dunkley will serve as vice provost for institutional equity, access and community, and civil rights attorney Stephen Chen will serve as Title IX coordinator and director of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Education (SHARE) Office. Dunkley,...

Apr 14, 2021 As part of their IDEAL fellowships, the scholars will be assigned to the schools and departments corresponding to the fields of their doctorate, and they will teach one course per year while they expand on their research. Each fellow will be given a faculty mentor selected from among Stanford’s Academic Council faculty. The IDEAL fellows also will be involved in organizing a major Stanford conference that will bring together scholars who are at the forefront of the study of race and ethnicity. “I am delighted to welcome our first IDEAL Provostial fellows to Stanford,” Drell...

The left's failed attack on the Hoover Institution was a victory against the academy's intolerance. Yet most conservatives lack the same protection.

Share The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on work-life balance and teaching, research and service have caused significant stress for Stanford faculty members, particularly women faculty, as well as faculty members who are at the lowest level of the Stanford professoriate salary scale, are pre-tenure and who have at-home and family obligations.   Professors Anne Joseph O’Connell, law, and Sara Singer, medicine, delivered to the Faculty Senate a presentation on a quality-of-life survey conducted by the Faculty Women’s Forum. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) A faculty quality-of-life surv...

Students exult: 'We won! We're getting a Black Studies Department at @Stanford!' FacebookTwitterEmail A Stanford University student walks in front of Hoover Tower on the campus in Palo Alto.Paul Sakuma / Associated Press 2012 Stanford University officials announced Tuesday that they are transforming their 52-year-old program of African and African-American studies into a full-fledged academic department. The move comes after Stanford’s Black Student Union and Black Graduate Student Association created a petition last summer urging Stanford to make the change, following the Minneapolis polic...