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A Syllabus for Citizenship: Stanford Builds Programs for the Habits Democracy Requires
Two weeks before Election Day, Stanford is betting that citizenship can be taught. A yearlong frosh fellowship and a Hoover-built Civic Profile offer new students a roadmap to…
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Six Strings and a Centennial: Stanford Live Turns Late October Toward the Guitar, the Blues and the Beats
Over the next eleven days, Stanford Live puts its season-long argument about the guitar and America at center stage: Julian Lage at Bing, a Georgia bluesman and a…
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Birdies for Her: Stanford’s Golf Champions Win at Home, and Play for Something Larger
The defending national champions won the Stanford Intercollegiate by 19 strokes, Meja Örtengren took the medal, and the PlayForHer campaign behind the event reported more than $170,000 raised…
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The Provisional Generation: Notes on the Spirit of the Times at Stanford
A broken federal compact, a chilled culture of argument, a technology that rewrites the future of work, and a student body asked to plan careers on shifting ground.…
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The Altered Photograph: Trust, Identity and AI on the Farm
When a university office used generative AI to change a student's race and gender in a promotional image, it exposed a question every campus now faces: in an…
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What Stanford Inherits, and What It Owes the Next Generation
Founded by grieving parents as a gift to "the children of California," Stanford now faces hard questions about legacy admissions, access and what one generation owes the next.…
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The Humanities at Stanford Face Their Reckoning, and Their Opening
Humanities degrees at Stanford have fallen by more than half in two decades, and computer science, long the default, is now shrinking too. Faculty argue that an age…
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The Art of Disagreement, Relearned
Stanford has bet on institutional neutrality and open inquiry. National surveys show students are still wary of saying what they think. On the Farm, the work of rebuilding…
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Woodside’s Rural Ideal Meets the Housing Mandate
A 16-story builder's remedy proposal, a hard-fought family housing project and a dispute over two horses on half an acre reveal a town working to honor its equestrian…
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Mountain View Chooses a New Council, With No Incumbents on the Ballot
Eight candidates are competing for three open seats in a city that has become the Peninsula's laboratory for housing, street design and resistance to federal immigration enforcement. Whoever…