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...Princeton University Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline has 13 members, the Yale College Executive Committee has 10 members, and the Stanford University Board on Judicial Affairs has 15 members...
...boards at Princeton, Yale, and Stanford only deliberate disciplinary cases, and do not field petitions and academic reviews...
Several peer institutions—such as the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University—offer activity-based learning programs, according to Boes...
Sitting in a brightly lit classroom at the Stanford Business School three years ago, Matt Scott got to wondering what it would take to light the rest of the world. Artificial lighting may not seem a necessity like food or shelter, but 1.6 billion people around the globe lack access to electricity and the on-off switches we take for granted. Inspired by the Light Up the World Foundation, which promotes the use of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Scott, now 31, traveled to India and in 2004 partnered with Amit Chugh to devise a market strategy for replacing...
...what they do,” we tell ourselves. But as famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo reminds us, we are all capable of distasteful, even evil, actions, given the right situation.As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows, Zimbardo was the creator and lead experimenter in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) of 1971, which resulted in the “dominant conclusion…that the pervasive yet subtle power of a host of situational variables can dominate an individual’s will to resist.” The study involved Stanford undergraduate and graduate students role...