Stanford will offer free employee-only coverage through Kaiser Permanente in 2019. Rates will increase for employees who choose plans other than Kaiser for employee-only coverage. Next year, Stanford is increasing the university contribution to employees who enroll in the Stanford Health Care Alliance plan to mitigate cost increases in the plan.
Keller, vice provost for University Libraries and the University Press, will oversee the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, which supports campus-based learning and extended education.
Herbert S. Lindenberger, a professor emeritus who founded Stanford’s Department of Comparative Literature and inspired generations of students and scholars, died on Oct. 1.
At Thursday’s meeting, the senate heard reports from leaders of ResX, the initiative focused on improving Stanford’s residential education program, and from the chair of the Advisory Committee on Renaming Junipero Serra Features.
With the success of Stanford’s worksites in downtown San Jose and Newark, Stanford is expanding to a third co-working office space managed by Regus in San Francisco, starting October 1.
Over the summer, Brenda McComb joined Stanford as interim associate vice provost and dean of students. She is among several new staff members serving students and the Stanford community.
Zohar Manna, who pioneered theoretical computer science techniques that today help form the basis for artificial intelligence and for reliable software, died at his home in Israel Aug. 30.
John Farquhar, a beloved mentor, pioneer in cardiovascular disease prevention and professor emeritus of medicine and of health research and policy, died Aug. 22 at the age of 91.
