Faculty and Staff News
Lindi Press, alumna, 2003 Amy J. Blue Award winner, dead at 66
Press retired from Stanford last summer after working at Stanford for three decades, including 11 years as academic committee coordinator in the Registrar's Office. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and a Master of Liberal Arts degree at Stanford.
1.10.13
Bing Concert Hall opening leads to parking, traffic changes
The opening celebrations at the Bing Concert Hall this weekend may cause some parking and traffic challenges beginning Friday afternoon and lasting through Sunday.
12.19.12
Online trove of university photographs keeps growing
There are now more than 600,000 photographs,and counting, stored in the Stanford ALL-Image Exchange, best known as SALLIE, the university's online image library. Campus units are saving time and money by using the database.
12.17.12
Update on gas pipeline replacement and testing near campus
Last year was a 'very busy year' for the Committee on Graduate Studies
The Committee on Graduate Studies spent much of its time last year reviewing Interdisciplinary Programs, degree-granting programs that meet the academic needs and interests of students and faculty not served by the degree options offered in the university's regular academic departments.
Faculty Senate chair describes trajectory of his academic career
Raymond E. Levitt, chair of the 45th Faculty Senate, said he "bumbled into" an academic career, which took him first to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then - in 1980 - to Stanford, where he had earlier earned his PhD.
11.26.12
Lots of Cardinal football fans expected on Friday, Nov. 30
Three words sum up the Stanford journey: Integrate, innovate and inspire, Elam tells Faculty Senate
At the third meeting of fall quarter, the senate heard an update on the redesign of undergraduate education that the faculty approved last spring.
Ann F. Marshall, 'a world-class electron microscopist,' to receive the 2012 Marsh O'Neill Award
Marshall, who arrived at Stanford in 1979, has dedicated her career to training others and to enhancing the excellence of materials characterization at the university.
11.8.12
Faculty Senate to hear progress report on new undergraduate requirements
Starting this year, freshmen are required to take a Thinking Matters course, and the class entering in the fall of 2013 is required to take 11 courses in eight Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing categories to earn a bachelor's degree.
10.26.12
Faculty Senate grapples with the possibilities and challenges of online learning
John Mitchell, vice provost for online learning, outlines progress in online teaching and learning and hears both praise and skepticism.
10.24.12
Faculty Senate will devote Thursday's meeting to online education
A one-hour Q&A will follow a 35-minute presentation by four faculty panelists.
10.22.12
Open Enrollment begins Friday: Materials now available to make health care plan decisions
Visit Stanford University Benefits to find out what's changing in health care plans in 2013 and to download summaries of benefits and coverage for Kaiser Permanente HMO, and the Blue Shield EPO, PPO and High-Deductible PPO plans.
Senate discusses student workload and Stanford's computing infrastructure, and applauds Bass University Fellows
At the Faculty Senate's first meeting of fall quarter, a panel of professors talked about how their departments had chosen the number of units required for majors, and the chair of the Committee on Academic Computing and Information Systems talked about expanding the university's wireless Internet and telephone service.
10.12.12
Report of the president: Academic Council Professoriate appointments
The Academic Council Professoriate appointments, promotions, and reappointments for the periods indicated were reviewed by the Advisory Board of the Academic Council on May 22, May 29, June 12, June 19, June 26, July 24, August 14, and August 28, 2012, and were approved by the President.
