COLLEGE News

Hamilton has been the chair of the faculty board that oversees COLLEGE.

A glimpse inside Ban Wang's COLLEGE 113: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction

The documentary Navalny was screened as part of the COLLEGE Three Books program

from the Stanford Daily.

This play was inspired by the Three Books selection and produced in collaboration with COLLEGE

Formerly a summer reading program, Three Books will now pair readings or other media with each quarter of COLLEGE.

COLLEGE faculty leaders explain the program vision in the New York Times (paywall)

COLLEGE invites students to reflect on their own place and purpose at Stanford, in society, and in the world.

The course was part of a series of changes that have shaped what undergraduate education at Stanford looks like today.

The Stanford Report peeked inside "Living with Viruses"

A spring-quarter course taught by Stanford professors William Barnett and Chris Field asked students to consider solutions to global predicaments.

The Wall Street Journal discusses COLLEGE among other NEH/Teagle programs.(paywalled)

Stanford frosh read, attended, and discussed William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as part of their COLLEGE winter course, Citizenship in the 21st Century.

from the Stanford Report

from the Stanford Daily. COLLEGE co-sponsored the TAPS production and integrated it into the Citizenship syllabus

COLLEGE gets a mention in this piece from the Chicago Tribune (paywalled)

COLLEGE presented an update to the Faculty Senate

COLLEGE has become a small part of the national conversation about curriculum.

The Stanford Report followed the Why College? seminar taught by Provost Presis Drell

from the Stanford Report

From the Office of Development

Miller spoke at Stanford as part of the COLLEGE program, which assigned her book.

From the Stanford Magazine

Faculty Director Dan Edelstein writes on the philosophy behind COLLEGE.

Faculty Director Dan Edelstein updated faculty colleagues on COLLEGE.

From Inside Higher Ed, a debate about the purpose of a first-year requirement.

COLLEGE presented to the Board of Trustees as part of a larger discussion about promoting civil discourse.

From the Stanford Daily. Westover spoke as part of the COLLEGE and ESF programs.

The Atlantic places "Citizenship in the 21st Century" in the national context of civic education.

The $250,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation, which supports the launch of Stanford’s new requirement for first-year students, is part of a broader national initiative.

For the first time since spring 2020, there are several thousand undergraduates on the Farm. The university has big plans for how they’ll live and learn.

President Tessier-Lavigne addressed the inaugural cohort of faculty teaching in COLLEGE.

From the Stanford Daily

“Citizenship in the 21st Century” is being piloted during the winter quarter as part of a new core curriculum for first-year students.

From the Stanford Daily. See 10: Why College? Your Education and the Good Life.

From the VPUE Spotlight staff newsletter.

The new two-course Civic, Liberal and Global Education Requirement for undergraduates approved in May has been reduced to one course for 2021-22 only.

From the Stanford Daily

The Faculty Senate approved the proposal to establish a Civic, Liberal and Global Education requirement for first-year students.

From the Stanford Daily

Faculty engaged deeply with proposals about the first year and majors.

The four co-chairs of the two undergraduate education design teams presented proposals about the first-year and majors.

Editorial by the Stanford Daily.

The original proposal for what became Civic, Liberal, and Global Education.

The co-chair of the First-Year Experience Design Team, Professor Dan Edelstein, was appointed as the faculty director for Stanford Introductory Studies.

COLLEGE began as a focus on the first-year intellectual experience, one of 19 initiatives under Long-Range Planning.