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Jenny S. Martinez, dean of Stanford Law School and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law, has been named Stanford’s 14th provost, incoming President Richard Saller announced on Aug. 23.
After six years, Persis Drell is resigning from her role as Stanford’s Provost. The circumstances of her “stepping down”—as the Stanford Report gently puts it—are unknown, but comes after a year mired in scandal for the university. As Provost, Drell was Stanford’s chief academic and budgetary
"We need an organization," writes the Graduate Student Council, "that will endure beyond any student government’s tenure and has institutional memory of past negotiations with University leaders."
The University is considering partially reinstating the line, which more than 1600 students petitioned to bring back. Provost Persis Drell has confirmed that the N and O lines will not be returning.
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."