Our Vision

In May 2019, Stanford launched its Long-Range Vision for how the university can accelerate its purposeful impact in the world, based on proposals submitted by the campus community. These stories describe the planning process for Our Vision, and detail the progress of initiatives that accelerate new solutions for urgent challenges, enhance our knowledge of our world and ourselves, advance education for our undergraduate and graduate students and support our community of faculty, students and staff.

Stanford Report — November 17, 2021

A message from the president and provost on the DEI survey results

Stanford University has released its first-ever campus-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) survey.

Stanford Report — November 10, 2021

Patrick Dunkley champions change

Stanford’s new vice provost for institutional equity, access and community talks about creating a more equitable and inclusive campus community.

Stanford Report — November 9, 2021

Home purchase program for staff has a successful start

Last spring, the Affordability Task Force announced a new staff home purchase assistance program to address challenges that surfaced in the input gathered from staff related to housing affordability. The program started in April 2021 and to date, 120 staff have actively participated, and 18 staff have become homeowners through the program.

Stanford Report — November 5, 2021

Stanford’s vision prioritizes citizenship, solutions, sustainability, IDEAL values and more, president tells Faculty Senate

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne discussed the Stanford Vision while Vice President for Development Jon Denney detailed fundraising to support the vision during a report to the Faculty Senate on Thursday. The meeting also included a presentation about the Global Engagement Review Program.

Stanford Report — November 4, 2021

Equity seed grant bolsters environmental justice efforts

Stanford researchers have been working to weave critical concepts of equitable sustainability and environmental justice into research, teaching and community-based learning, including through a new environmental justice minor.

Stanford Report — October 28, 2021

Stanford invests in doctoral students with new RAISE Fellowship

The Research, Action and Impact for Strategic Engagement, or RAISE, Fellowship will support doctoral students pursuing research and scholarship addressing social issues.

Stanford Report — October 28, 2021

Immersive sustainability course embodies new school principles

Graduate students across disciplines participated in an immersive, weeklong summer course centered on systems thinking, transdisciplinary thinking, and connecting research and practice that could be a model keystone experience for Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainability.