News
-
Jay Hamilton appointed vice provost for undergraduate education
Hamilton has been the chair of the faculty board that oversees COLLEGE.
July 24, 2024
-
Envisioning the future through a sci-fi lens
A glimpse inside Ban Wang's COLLEGE 113: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction
July 12, 2024
-
Navalny’s daughter and Michael McFaul remember his defiance
The documentary Navalny was screened as part of the COLLEGE Three Books program
April 25, 2024
-
‘How to Do Nothing’: A visit to the Windhover Contemplative Center
from the Stanford Daily.
January 15, 2024
-
TAPS’s ‘For Now’: A theatrical respite from toxic productivity
This play was inspired by the Three Books selection and produced in collaboration with COLLEGE
December 03, 2023
-
Three Books joins the COLLEGE curriculum
Formerly a summer reading program, Three Books will now pair readings or other media with each quarter of COLLEGE.
October 03, 2023
-
By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars
COLLEGE faculty leaders explain the program vision in the New York Times (paywall)
September 03, 2023
-
How Stanford is reimagining the undergraduate experience
COLLEGE invites students to reflect on their own place and purpose at Stanford, in society, and in the world.
July 14, 2023
-
100 years ago, Stanford’s first general education requirement was a course on citizenship
The course was part of a series of changes that have shaped what undergraduate education at Stanford looks like today.
July 11, 2023
-
Exploring minds and shaping perspectives: How COLLEGE took a Stanford student on a journey of discovery
The Stanford Report peeked inside "Living with Viruses"
July 11, 2023
-
Learning different approaches to sustainability
A spring-quarter course taught by Stanford professors William Barnett and Chris Field asked students to consider solutions to global predicaments.
June 27, 2023
-
Great Books Can Heal Our Divided Campuses
The Wall Street Journal discusses COLLEGE among other NEH/Teagle programs.(paywalled)
June 09, 2023
-
Learning from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Stanford frosh read, attended, and discussed William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as part of their COLLEGE winter course, Citizenship in the 21st Century.
March 21, 2023
-
Exploring concepts of citizenship
from the Stanford Report
March 14, 2023
-
Gender and media in politics through ‘Julius Caesar’
from the Stanford Daily. COLLEGE co-sponsored the TAPS production and integrated it into the Citizenship syllabus
March 12, 2023
-
Jonathan Zimmerman: College’s purpose is to create citizens, not to be a job placement service
COLLEGE gets a mention in this piece from the Chicago Tribune (paywalled)
February 22, 2023
-
The Faculty Senate ... heard a presentation on the COLLEGE undergraduate requirement program in Thursday’s meeting.
COLLEGE presented an update to the Faculty Senate
February 09, 2023
-
DeSantis wants a ‘core curriculum.’ That idea is college kryptonite.
COLLEGE has become a small part of the national conversation about curriculum.
February 05, 2023
-
COLLEGE prepares students for a lifetime of inquiry
The Stanford Report followed the Why College? seminar taught by Provost Presis Drell
January 12, 2023
-
How Stanford’s Why College course took one student on an unexpected journey
from the Stanford Report
January 11, 2023