What Students Say
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"You can't outsource critical thinking"
In COLLEGE 102, first-year students wrote essays, styled as policy memos, on AI in the classroom. The winning proposal centered on keeping students accountable for their own critical thinking and was presented to the provost.
May 06, 2026
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‘Civic Salons’ engage students on complex issues
Civic Salons are a joint project between COLLEGE and E Pluribus Stanford
March 18, 2025
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Civic Salons bring citizenship conversations from classrooms to first-year dorms
from the Stanford Daily.
February 11, 2025
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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
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‘How to Do Nothing’: A visit to the Windhover Contemplative Center
from the Stanford Daily.
January 15, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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How Stanford’s Why College course took one student on an unexpected journey
from the Stanford Report
January 11, 2023
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Three Books author Lulu Miller lectures on purpose, disability and biodiversity
Miller spoke at Stanford as part of the COLLEGE program, which assigned her book.
October 19, 2022
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‘Empathy, perspective and hope’: Memoirist Tara Westover reflects on the value of a COLLEGE education
From the Stanford Daily. Westover spoke as part of the COLLEGE and ESF programs.
October 14, 2021
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New first-year requirement to debut next fall
From the Stanford Daily
April 02, 2021
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10 underrated classes Stanford students should consider
From the Stanford Daily. See 10: Why College? Your Education and the Good Life.
February 04, 2021
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Unit cap, new first-year requirements a boon for academic exploration. Some ask: At what cost?
From the Stanford Daily
August 27, 2020
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Students ask for bigger role in proposals to change first-year, undergrad major requirements
From the Stanford Daily
May 06, 2020
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Will Stanford live up to its vision for a first-year shared intellectual experience?
Editorial by the Stanford Daily.
October 20, 2019