Initiatives

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has appointed a committee to research assertions Stanford had quotas that limited admissions of Jewish undergraduate students in the 1950s...

Stanford will host several virtual events celebrating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., including a documentary film festival, a worship service and the...

Two programs sponsored by VPGE support building intellectual communities and expanding diversity among grad students and postdocs.

"The goal is for students to feel like they are seen, that there are support systems, and that they’re not invisible,” said Ankita Rakhe, assistant dean for student...

On Wednesday, Stanford released the findings from Stanford’s first-ever campus-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) survey, conducted in May of this year. Stanford...

Stanford’s new vice provost for institutional equity, access and community talks about creating a more equitable and inclusive campus community.

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne discussed the Stanford Vision while Vice President for Development Jon Denney detailed fundraising to support the vision during a report...

Psychiatrist Lawrence Fung expanded his autism research into developing a program that helps those on the spectrum find jobs.

A panel discussion, “Dimensions of Mexican American Rhetoric,” featuring three prominent scholars in the field, kicks off the new Notation in Cultural Rhetorics program...

A new university office joins with the National Education Equity Lab to deliver dual-credit Stanford courses to underserved students nationwide.

Matthew Rascoff, vice provost for digital education, talks about the newly created office that will marshal Stanford’s teaching and learning expertise and technological...

Provost Persis Drell told the Faculty Senate Thursday that a committee has been charged with developing recommendations for a process to create a new institute on the...

Pediatrician Lisa Chamberlain will lead a new office that promotes pediatric health equity via research, community engagement and health policy.

A new website with the university’s official land acknowledgment encourages its use at events and celebrates ties to the Muwekma Ohlone and other Native communities.

Stanford historians are illuminating the complex story of environmental damage in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.

A pilot of the IDEAL Learning Journey, which began in late June with 251 staff members, is coming to a close. This fall, program administrators will evaluate the pilot’s...

Under the new Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEaD) program, the School of Medicine invited college students from across the country to spend the summer doing...

Through the Scholars in Service program, four faculty members will advance new evidence-based solutions to address disparities made worse by COVID-19.

Destin Jenkins and Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh will join the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences faculty.

‘We’re all learning and teaching together’: GSE professor Jonathan Rosa takes community-based learning to a new level in his ethnic studies course.