Undergraduate representatives of the Asian American Activities Center recently sent out a new student survey on faculty diversity in an effort to inform and advance advocacy efforts for a broader range of backgrounds within the faculty body, according to involved students.
President Barack Obama’s second-term push to overhaul the United States’ immigration system may be uniquely feasible in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election, according to Stanford political observers.
The number of black and Hispanic faculty members at Stanford reached a new high last year but, their numbers as a percentage of total faculty have not increased in a decade. That was among the conclusions in this year’s Report on the Faculty, an annual study by the provost’s office about hiring, loss and demographics.