Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed needs of students will have priority. Students will fashion their own curriculum, teach each other, study on their own up to a third of the time, and quit school, return or transfer at will. Scholars, predicts Lewis B. Mayhew, a professor of higher education at Stanford, will be paid well enough to spurn research grants and outside fees. They will thus finally be able to accept the idea that "their chief duty is to help young people change...
...Stanford's quality gave him a high goal to work toward when he was at Rice, Pitzer is no less ambitious now. His aim, he says, is "to make Stanford as strong as Harvard and M.I.T. - put together...
...Stanford's student leaders were not pleased. They complained that they had not had any voice in the selection, and Student Body President Denis Hayes, who argued that Pitzer had "no recent experience with race relations or student relations," led a move for an unofficial student referendum on the appointment. It is not likely to come to much-especially if Stanford's students take the trouble to look up Pitzer's record at Rice. There he fought successfully to remove an admissions ban on Negro students from the trust agreement under which the university was founded...
Under Sterling, Stanford successfully conducted a $113 million fund drive and solidified its position as one of the best-financed schools in the nation...
More significant, the American Council on Education now rates the overall quality of Stanford's graduate education third in the nation, behind Berkeley and Harvard, with particular strength in engineering, psychology, biochemistry, zoology and physics. Its law school is gaining stature under Dean Bayless Manning, and its medical school is at the forefront of heart surgery through work directed by Dr. Norman E. Shumway...