Perhaps even more remarkable than the record-breaking enrollment in CS 106A last quarter was the percentage of those 594 students who were female.
Gender parity, if only in the introductory class, is encouraging news for a department that is overwhelmingly male.
A recent study by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) found that, on average, faculty expected engineering majors to spend the most hours per week on their schoolwork at 20 hours, followed by social scientists at 18 hours and business and education majors at 15 hours.
You wouldn’t know it from the placid warmth of spring on the Farm, but there’s a battle raging for the soul of Stanford. Even as the University has launched efforts to save the humanities from waning student interest, more and more of the undergraduate population is devoting itself to the study of technical majors, a development that speaks volumes about the present and future of Stanford.
University President John Hennessy announced during Thursday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting that Stanford is investigating the invitation to establish a New York City campus focused on applied science and technology.
“I learn by doing and by making mistakes,” he said. “I’ve broken many machine tools. I’ve screwed up parts when I was making them…but by doing so, it’s made me a better engineer.”
Fifteen Stanford graduate students have been chosen as 2011 Siebel Scholars in recognition of their academic achievement and community leadership.
Stanford’s online degree programs under eyes … Hospital saga takes one more step … Andrew Luck honored … Time to invest … Stanford news from around the web for July 14, 2010.