Global changes spur comprehensive review of undergraduate education at Stanford

Stanford will review its curriculum, to reaffirm or revise its goals for undergraduate education, and to ensure that its requirements reflect its stated goals.

Stanford has appointed an 18-member task force, composed of faculty, students and staff, to undertake a wide-ranging review of undergraduate education on the Farm, Provost John Etchemendy announced at Thursday’s Faculty Senate meeting.

A two-page document distributed at the meeting, entitled "The Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford University," outlined the need for the review:

"The growing social, political, economic and ecological interconnectedness of the world certainly challenges us to look more broadly at what it means to be an educated citizen. How do these changes affect what today’s student needs from an undergraduate education? What do we want our students to gain from their time on the Farm? How do we best prepare them for local, national and global citizenship?"

BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN

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