School planning
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The newly named Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has expanded its expertise in recent years to include extraterrestrial surface processes and atmospheric formation.
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New Senior Associate Deans and Associate Deans will include a focus on environmental justice; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and more.
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The new Oceans Department will provide unique oceans education and create global impact. The Energy Science & Engineering Department will increase in size and add expertise.
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Faculty leading efforts to design curricula within the new school discuss new courses debuting next fall and preview what might be different in new degree programs.
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Kathryn “Kam” Moler has been named transition dean of the new school focused on climate and sustainability, and Stephan Graham will be transition vice dean.
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Graduate students across disciplines participated in an immersive, weeklong summer course that could be a model keystone experience for Stanford’s new school.
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Email from Provost Drell announcing the launch of a search committee for a founding dean of the new school focused on climate and sustainability.
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The new school will include transitional academic divisions, university-wide cross-cutting themes organized into institutes and an accelerator focused on solutions.
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Stanford trustees received briefings on university initiatives including the new school focused on climate and sustainability.
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Stanford’s Long-Range Vision seeks to increase and accelerate both the creation of new knowledge through foundational research and the uptake of that knowledge as solutions.
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The Faculty Senate heard an update on the structure of the new school and learned about a Sustainability Accelerator that will translate policy and technology solutions.
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After a Deliberative Polling event, faculty showed majority support for proposals relating to the organization and structure of the new school – but not without debate.
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Following deliberations by a Blueprint Advisory Committee, leaders are seeking faculty input on proposals for the new school’s structure, composition and areas of focus.
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A school focused on climate and sustainability, announced last May, is beginning to take shape. Leaders anticipate blueprints for the school’s academic structure by winter quarter.
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Initiatives that arose out of the university’s Long-Range Vision have been making progress toward the goal of accelerating Stanford's impact in the world.
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President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced a school focused on climate and sustainability that will help the university address the urgent challenges facing the planet.
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A committee is exploring ways of bridging sustainability efforts on campus and creating new mechanisms for addressing critical issues facing the planet
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At its meeting this week, the Board of Trustees heard a report on the progress of the Sustainability Initiative, among other matters.
