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The potential transaction supports NDNU’s ongoing transition to a primarily graduate university while providing Stanford with additional space to support its people and programs and deepen its commitment to the region.
Anti-Vax University? Stanford says fully-vaccinated students must be tested for COVID-19 twice a week! Share: Since March 2020, all students, faculty, and staff at Stanford have had to undergo regular COVID-19 testing: undergraduate and graduate students twice a week, and faculty whenever they visit campus. But starting May 2nd, graduate students have had to test only once a week, and testing for faculty/staff/postdoctoral researchers was made optional. As for undergraduates, Stanford leaders wrote: âWeâre asking for the continued partnership of our undergraduates in do...
Op-Ed | The price we must all pay: carbon pricing Woods Institute for the Environment hosted a “virtual celebration” on Monday to acknowledge the progress Stanford and the world has made in the 50 years since the first Earth Day in 1970. (Photo: JAWED KARIM/Wikimedia Commons) on April 20, 2021 “Among the most urgent issues of our time are climate change and the challenge of creating a sustainable future for people and our planet,” affirmed Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne as he announced the new School of Sustainability in May 2020. Overwhelming evidence has shown the acceler...
Atlas, Ferguson, and Hanson: On Free Speech at Stanford What is the purpose of academic freedom? Is it to allow all kinds of ideas to be expressed and explored, protecting even speech that people in the past considered hereticalâprotecting free expression that some people today would like to âcancelâ? Or is it to allow co-workers in the ideological minority to be personally and selectively disparaged with impunity? The answer for some faculty at Stanford University would appear to be the latter. In a recent meeting of the Stanford Faculty Senate, four professors (Joshua Landy, ...
A Triumphant Day in the Senate Share: Yesterday evening, the Stanford Faculty Senate met and debated a resolution which sought to create a faculty committee to study the Universityâs relationship with the Hoover Institution. The faculty who proposed the resolution, led by Professor of Comparative Literature David Palumbo-Liu, gave a detailed presentation expressing their concerns, and delivered a litany of charges against current and former Hoover fellows for making what they call âa travesty of honest intellectual debateâ. The resolution called for an ad hoc â...