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I didn’t know that college would be a factory of unreason.
Still, even a place like Stanford can’t ignore the growing skepticism of higher education in general, and the sense, amplified by the pandemic, that college instruction can happen even without a campus, Rascoff acknowledged.
He sees potential opportunities for Stanford to try to expand access to its offerings now that more online capacity has been developed, though he says it’s too early to say whether Stanford would consider doing something like offering an online bachelor’s degree.
“No one would argue that online is a full replacement for the in-person campus,” he said.
Stanford University received responses from 6,000 of their students (response rate just under 40%) to identify the main obstacles students encountered during the spring quarter, when it moved its classes to remote learning. The article describes not only the main issues that needed to be addressed as a result of the survey responses, but the steps it has taken to mitigate these for the upcoming fall quarter (semester), since undergraduates will not be on campus in the fall.
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Katie Ledecky, Lia Neal, Simone Manuel and Maya DiRado are some of the Olympians with a Stanford University tie.
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The recent release of ChatGPT — a new natural language processor that can write essays, spit out a Haiku, and even produce computer code — has prompted more questions about what this means for the future of society than even it can answer, despite efforts to make it try. Faculty from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning are already thinking about the ways in which ChatGPT and
Stanford University has launched a digital education office with the intent of broadening equity and access to higher education through digital pathways.
The organizer, Niall Ferguson, found himself on the defensive after a tweet with images of 30 white, male speakers prompted anger from female historians.
The @Stanford Project boldly reimagines the way we approach a college education.
The uproar over Brock Turner’s six-month sentence has put sexual violence at the center of a national conversation.
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