education Update...It’s a Race! Coming hot on the heels of my previous blog post [http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2010/02/27/uncontested-election/] about the lack of serious competition, a new slate has officially entered oreid 28 Feb 2010
education The Other Senate: Cribbing Code This is a continuation of my series “The Other Senate” about the reports and goings-on of the Faculty Senate. Search “the other senate” to find the other articles. Recently, news oreid 11 Feb 2010
education This Just In: Massive Hit to Endowment "Harder than Average" The Stanford Daily website, now showing the spiffy new look that new editor-in-chief [http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2010/01/14/a-new-day-for-the-daily/] Kamil Dada promised before his election [http://www.stanford. oreid 4 Feb 2010
education The Other Senate: Stanford SUES? This is a continuation of my series “The Other Senate” about the reports and goings-on of the Faculty Senate. Search “the other senate” to find the other articles. Stanford’s oreid 7 Jan 2010
education The Year in Review (According to Stanford) If you’re interested in some of the major events that occurred at Stanford this past year, here’s a round-up [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/january4/year-in-review-01052010.html] oreid 5 Jan 2010
admissions Interesting Take on College Selectivity Caroline Hoxby, a Stanford professor whose work I’ve mentioned before [http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2009/09/22/not-just-creaming-charter-schools-that-work/] , has released another report, this time entitled “The Changing Selectivity of oreid 24 Dec 2009
education A Sports Powerhouse on the Cheap? A set of fascinating statistics [http://www.centerforcollegeaffordability.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=50432] has been calculated by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which looked at DI oreid 23 Dec 2009
education Tallying Up FY09 Followers of Fiat Lux may have noticed my interest in the finances of the university, as I’ve written on the potential asset sale [http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2009/10/ oreid 22 Dec 2009
The Stanford Review The Other Senate ![](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june3/gifs/senate_etch.jpg)Provost Etchemendy presents to the Faculty SenateThis blog, the Review, and the Stanford Daily have all often ruminated about oreid 21 Dec 2009
education And The Other Shoe Doesn’t Drop After All So, some of you might remember way back in October [http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2009/10/15/stanfords-asset-fire-sale/] when I blogged about the potential for Stanford to have a major oreid 15 Dec 2009
admissions On Legacy and Endowment In a recent Stanford Daily article [http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=1036521], it was reported that almost 1/5 of the class of 2013 was legacy, which, according to oreid 4 Dec 2009
Stanford University Efficiency Ideas? Stanford Wants Them Stanford has begun a stealth initiative to improve its efficiency. Yes, in an effort that has received no broad publicity (that I could find), Provost John Etchemendy inaugurated a website oreid 17 Nov 2009
education Time to Update Affirmative Action Affirmative action based on race has been a feature of national discourse since it was first mentioned by President John F. Kennedy [http://www.oeod.uci.edu/aa.html] in oreid 10 Nov 2009
Stanford University Grade Inflation Must Go Like any student, I love seeing that beautiful letter “A” on my transcript. Throw a plus on it, and I’m even happier. Hell, give me an A- or a oreid 20 Oct 2009
Economics Stanford’s Asset "Fire Sale"? ![John Powers, Stanford Management CEO](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/may3/gifs/powers_J.jpg)John Powers, Stanford Management CEOAs has been reported in [the New York Times](http: oreid 14 Oct 2009
Economics Stirring Things Up: Former Stanford Professor Named President of the Minneapolis Fed A former Stanford professor, Narayana Kocherlakota, has just been named [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZ30mkfC7V7k] chief of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve branch. Kocherlakota was oreid 30 Sep 2009
education Not Just "Creaming": Charter Schools That Work ![A Student at Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in NYC](http://www.blockmagazine.com/media/charter-school-desk350.jpg)A Student at Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in NYCStanford University professor [Caroline Hoxby](http: oreid 22 Sep 2009
education Making Education Pay (for teachers, that is) In a recent interview [http://learningmatters.tv/blog/op-ed/interview-with-rick-hanushek/2513/] with veteran correspondent and founder of Learning Matters [http://learningmatters.tv/] John Merrow, Hoover fellow Eric Hanushek laid out oreid 19 Aug 2009