Culture and Management in the Americas (Stanford Business Books)

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However, it remains an expensive area in which to own property, and the average price of single-family homes on campus is actually higher than in Palo Alto. Some of the land is managed to provide revenue for the university such as the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park. White and John B. White II, one of whom died before graduating and one shortly after in Stanford University is a private, non-profit university that is administered as a corporate trust governed by a privately appointed board of trustees with a maximum membership of The Board appoints a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and prescribe the duties of professors and course of study, manage financial and business affairs, and appoint nine vice presidents.

As of the university was organized into seven academic schools. The powers and authority of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of tenure and non-tenure line faculty, research faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other academic administrators, but most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 55 elected representatives of the faculty.

Its elected leadership consists of the Undergraduate Senate elected by the undergraduate students, the Graduate Student Council elected by the graduate students, and the President and Vice President elected as a ticket by the entire student body. Stanford is the beneficiary of a special clause in the California Constitution , which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes. In , President John L.

Funds supported new fellowships for graduate students, new endowed chairs for faculty, and 38 new or renovated buildings. The new funding also enabled the construction of a facility for stem cell research; a new campus for the business school; an expansion of the law school; a new Engineering Quad; a new art and art history building; an on-campus concert hall; a new art museum; and a planned expansion of the medical school, among other things. In fiscal year , 1. Stanford follows a quarter system with Autumn quarter usually starting in late September and Spring Quarter ending in early June.

As of the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research oversaw eighteen independent laboratories, centers, and institutes. Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center , the Stanford Research Institute an independent institution which originated at the university , the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace a major public policy think tank that attracts visiting scholars from around the world and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design a multidisciplinary design school in cooperation with the Hasso Plattner Institute of University of Potsdam that integrates product design, engineering, and business management education.

Stanford is home to the Martin Luther King Jr. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to address challenges facing the ocean. The main library in the SU library system is Green Library , which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms. Lathrop Library previously Meyer Library , demolished in , holds various student-accessible media resources and houses one of the largest East Asia collections with , volumes. Stanford University is home to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts museum with 24 galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child.

There are outdoor art installations throughout the campus, primarily sculptures, but some murals as well. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society, the Stanford Improvisors, [] the Stanford Shakespeare Society, and the Stanford Savoyards, a group dedicated to performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Notably, Stanford ranks high and often first in many domestic college ranking measures , leading Slate to dub Stanford in as "the Harvard of the 21st century," [] and The New York Times in the same year to conclude that "Stanford University has become America's 'it' school, by measures that Harvard once dominated.

Stanford is one of the most successful universities in creating companies and licensing its inventions to existing companies; it is often held up as a model for technology transfer. The university is described as having a strong venture culture in which students are encouraged, and often funded , to launch their own companies. Stanford awarded 1, undergraduate degrees, 2, master's degrees, doctoral degrees, and professional degrees in the — school year.

As of , fifteen percent of undergraduates were first-generation students.

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First-year undergraduates are required to live on campus, and all undergraduates are guaranteed housing for all four undergraduate years. Some are reserved for freshman, sophomores, or upperclass students and some are open to all four classes. Most residences are co-ed; seven are all-male fraternities , three are all-female sororities , and there is also one all-female non-sorority house, Roth House. In most residences, men and women live on the same floor, but a few dorms are configured for men and women to live on separate floors single-gender floors.

Several residences are considered theme houses. Co-ops or "Self-Ops" are another housing option. These houses feature cooperative living, where residents and eating associates each contribute work to keep the house running, such as cooking meals or cleaning shared spaces.

These houses have unique themes around which their community is centered. Many co-ops are hubs of music, art and philosophy. As of around 55 percent of the graduate student population lived on campus. Stanford also subsidizes off-campus apartments in nearby Palo Alto , Menlo Park , and Mountain View for graduate students who are guaranteed on-campus housing but are unable to live on campus due to a lack of space. As of Stanford had 16 male varsity sports and 20 female varsity sports, [] 19 club sports [] and about 27 intramural sports [] In , following a unanimous vote by the Executive Committee for the Associated Students, the athletic department adopted the mascot "Indian.

Its traditional sports rival is Berkeley , the neighbor to the north in the East Bay. Stanford has had at least one NCAA team champion every year since the —77 school year [] and has earned NCAA national team titles since its establishment, the most among universities one more than the four times larger enrollment UCLA Bruins , and Stanford has won individual national championships, the most by any university.

Students and staff at Stanford are of many different religions. The Stanford Office for Religious Life's mission is "to guide, nurture and enhance spiritual, religious and ethical life within the Stanford University community" by promoting enriching dialogue, meaningful ritual, and enduring friendships among people of all religious backgrounds.

It is headed by a dean with the assistance of a senior associate dean and an associate dean. UPW sometimes has multifaith services. Weddings happen most Saturdays and the university has for over 20 years allowed blessings of same-gender relationships and now legal weddings. It offers a common room, an interfaith sanctuary, a seminar room, a student lounge area and a reading room, as well as offices housing a number of Stanford Associated Religions SAR member groups and the Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Religious Life.

Most though not all religious student groups belong to SAR.

The Windhover Contemplation Center was dedicated in October , and was intended to provide spiritual sanctuary for students and staff in the midst of their course and work schedules; the center displays the "Windhover" paintings by Nathan Oliveira , the late Stanford professor and artist. Some religions have a larger and more formal presence on campus in addition to the student groups; these include the Catholic Community at Stanford [] and Hillel at Stanford. Fraternities and sororities have been active on the Stanford campus since , when the university first opened. In , University President Donald Tresidder banned all Stanford sororities due to extreme competition.

As of Stanford had 31 Greek organizations, including 14 sororities and 16 fraternities. Nine of the Greek organizations were housed eight in University-owned houses and one, Sigma Chi , in their own house [although the land is owned by the University] [].

Six chapters were members of the African American Fraternal and Sororal Association, 11 chapters were members of the Interfraternity Council, 7 chapters belonged to the Intersorority Council, and 6 chapters belonged to the Multicultural Greek Council. As of Stanford had student organizations. These funds include "special fees", which are decided by a Spring Quarter vote by the student body.

The Stanford Daily is the daily newspaper and has been published since the University was founded in Stanford Marketing is a student group that provides students hands on training through research and strategy consulting projects with Fortune clients, as well as workshops led by people from industry and professors in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Its goal is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. Each year, SWIB organizes over 25 events and workshops, hosts a winter and spring conference, and provides mentorship and spring quarter internships. It is staffed primarily by students. Stanford's Department of Public Safety is responsible for law enforcement and safety on the main campus. Murder is rare on the campus though a few of the cases have been notorious including Theodore Streleski 's murder of his professor in and the unsolved murder of Arlis Perry in Stanford Memorial Church.

In , Stanford University was the tenth highest in the nation in "total of reports of rape" on their main campus, with 26 reports of rape. Department of Education, and found that Stanford was one of the top ten universities in campus rapes in , with 26 reported that year, but when analyzed by rapes per students, Stanford was not among the top ten. Early in the morning of January 18, , a woman visiting campus to attend a party at the Kappa Alpha fraternity was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a freshman who had a swimming scholarship.

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The assault was interrupted by two Swedish graduate students. In February , Elise Clougherty filed a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit against venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale. As of late , Stanford had 2, tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical center faculty.

Stanford's faculty and former faculty includes 45 Nobel laureates , [] 5 Fields Medalists as well as 14 winners of the Turing Award , the so-called "Nobel Prize in computer science", comprising one third of the awards given in its year history.

The university has 27 ACM fellows. Stanford alumni have started many companies and, according to Forbes , has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Stanford disambiguation. History of Stanford University. Carnegie Mellon discoveries and innovation , Illinois discoveries and innovation , MIT discoveries and innovation , and UC Berkeley discoveries and innovation. List of companies founded by Stanford University alumni. The census data for California and the United States as a whole does include people who are here on temporary visas or who are undocumented.

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In Jane Stanford changed the maximum number of trustees from 24 to 15 and set the term of office to 10 years. On June 1, , she resigned her powers as founder and the board took on its full powers. In the s the board decided that 15 members was not sufficient to do all the work needed and in March petitioned the courts to raise the maximum number to 23, of whom 20 would be regular trustees serving year terms and 3 would be alumni trustees serving 5-year terms.

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