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The Faculty Senate tabled undoing the public censure of Hoover fellow Scott Atlas, who made anti-vaccine and inflammatory comments during the COVID-19 pandemic, to a later date. The Senate failed to pass a resolution on public Canvas.
University leadership described tension between Stanford's research policies and increased federal concern over undue foreign influence.
In an open letter to the the Director of the Hoover Institute, the President, the Provost and the Board of Trustees, 90 Stanford faculty members call for a public accounting of Rupert Murdoch's appointment to the Hoover's Board of Overseers. They write, "we wonder what kind of signal his presence sends to our students, who we are training to seek the truth, and to our colleagues on the faculty, who are constantly held to the highest standards of honesty, truth and responsible scholarship."
Faculty members criticized the initiative, which drew widespread backlash in December.
The Faculty Senate heard a presentation on the changing athletics landscape in relation to collegiate athletic conference realignment, the ability for student-athletes to monetize their brand, and more during its Thursday meeting.