At a special emergency meeting on March 26, the Faculty Senate approved a variety of new academic policies, including implementing a Satisfactory/No Credit grade for spring quarter.
During its annual conservation campaign, Sustainable Stanford is encouraging everyone on campus to “say goodbye” to drinking and dining items designed to be used once and thrown away, such as plastic utensils, and switch to their reusable counterparts.
At its Feb. 20 meeting, the senate approved an oversight committee for the Stanford University Press, and approved several motions regarding teaching staff appointments and the status of fellows at designated policy institutes recommended by the Committee on the Professoriate.
With leaders appointed for the Changing Human Experience, Public Humanities and Innovative Medicines Accelerator, those initiatives are poised to further humanities research, disseminate that work beyond campus and accelerate new medicines.
