BOSP in Florence waives language requirement for winter quarter
The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) recently waived the language requirement to study abroad in Florence in Winter Quarter 2014 in an effort to encourage more students to apply.
Ramon Saldivar
Two Stanford academics appointed to National Endowment for the Humanities advisory board
President Barack Obama named Stanford English and comparative literature professor Ramón Saldívar and Haas Center visiting scholar Bruce R. Sievers ’63 M.A. ’69 Ph.D. ’73 to sit on the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) advisory board.
Housing options mixed for returning students
With more students on campus than any other term, winter quarter poses greater challenges for students returning from an autumn quarter abroad, particularly as they try to find desirable housing on campus.
BOSP breaks spring applications record
Application numbers for the first round of the spring Bing Overseas Study Program (BOSP) this year were the highest in the past five years, increasing to 391 applicants from last year’s 289.
Israel BOSP exempted from University travel policy
The University has approved the first exception to an 11-year-old policy prohibiting undergraduate student trips to countries on the U.S. State Department’s Travel Warning List.
Crossing Boundaries: Saldívar explores ethnic identity through literature
As a winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal presented by President Obama, Saldívar belongs to a distinguished group that includes writers such as Toni Morrison, John Updike and Elie Wiesel.
Humanities doctoral students face tightening job market
Although some on campus attribute having a Stanford degree to cushioning many of the recession’s effects on employment, doctoral candidates studying the humanities still face a number of difficulties.