In an email to the university community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announces adjustments to Stanford’s plans for the undergraduate autumn quarter due to continuing public health conditions.
The theater is housed in the historic Roble Gym, home of the Department of Theater and Performance Studies where Elam taught and directed for 30 years.
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Persis Drell and Elizabeth Zacharias, vice president of human resources, addressed the university’s latest responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during an online conversation, followed by a Q&A, with the Stanford community.
The university is seeking input from the campus community on the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed Title IX policies and disciplinary processes for sexual harassment and sexual assault.
At a special meeting on July 30, the Faculty Senate approved new grading policies for the 2020-21 academic year, including one stating that all university courses offered for a letter grade must also give students the option of taking the course for a credit/no credit grade.
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has appointed Patrick H. Dunkley, deputy athletic director, and Claude M. Steele, a professor emeritus of psychology, as co-chairs of the Community Board on Public Safety, which is expected to hold its first meeting in early fall quarter.
Drawings of swastikas on a Memorial Church wall, which Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said have “no place on our campus,” are being investigated as a hate crime by the university’s Department of Public Safety.
Provost Persis Drell is allocating funds to enable all doctoral students in good academic standing to receive 12 months of funding for up to five years.
Mandates imposed by the county and state based on the evolving COVID-19 pandemic may prompt changes in the university’s fall academic and undergraduate housing plans. Final decisions about fall plans are targeted for mid-August.
