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Faculty co-chairs of the Our Community and Engagement Beyond Our University steering groups talk about their process for sorting through hundreds of ideas and share some of the main themes that emerged.

Last summer and fall, more than 100 members of the Stanford community – undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, academic staff and postdoctoral scholars – formed into four groups that took on the task of reviewing more than 2,800 ideas for Stanford’s future submitted by people across the university community.

The four steering groups, organized around the areas of Education, Research, Our Community and Engagement Beyond Our University, produced white papers summarizing and framing the ideas that were submitted as part of the long-range planning process launched by President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell.

Those white papers have now gone to the university’s Executive Cabinet for further review. The papers will be released to the campus community in early February.

Here, in the first of two videos, the faculty co-chairs of the Our Community and Engagement Beyond Our University steering groups talk about their process for sorting through hundreds of ideas and share some of the main themes that emerged. A second video on the Education and Research area steering groups will appear later this month.

Featured in this video are:

  • Juliet Brodie, professor of law and associate dean for clinical education at Stanford Law School and co-chair of the Engagement Beyond Our University group
  • Ramesh Johari, associate professor of management science and engineering and co-chair of the Our Community group
  • Sue McConnell, professor of biology and co-chair of the Our Community group
  • Joseph Woo, professor and chair of cardiothoracic surgery and co-chair of the Engagement Beyond Our University group