Jan. 11: Stanford revamped Full Moon on the Quad.
Jan. 27: The Band’s suspension was lifted.
Jan. 31: John Etchemendy planned to step down as University provost after 17 years.
Feb. 6: A Stanford graduate student sued President Trump over the travel ban.
Feb. 10: Stanford fired a sexual assault lawyer who had criticized the Title IX process.
Feb. 17: University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne would not declare Stanford a ‘sanctuary campus,’ but pledged support for the undocumented community.
Feb. 28: President Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Drell outlined the long-range planning process for the University.
May 1: Judge Aaron Persky, who had been accused of giving Brock Turner a lenient sentence, fought a recall campaign.
May 2: The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program released its inaugural application.
May 23: Stanford began construction to replace Scary Path with a lighted walkway.
May 24: ASSU Exec announced that a dining hall would remain open during spring break starting in the 2017-2018 academic year.
Sept. 7: After Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos promised to roll back Obama-era Title IX regulations, Provost Persis Drell assured the community that Stanford would continue to “move forward” on sexual assault.
Oct. 10: The Board of Trustees announced the University would not divest from companies connected to private prisons.
Oct. 20: Stanford’s proposed General Use Permit was met with concern from parts of the community about environmental impacts.
Nov. 2: Dining hall workers submitted petitions to Residential & Dining Enterprises protesting “chronic understaffing” and “unacceptable workloads” in campus dining halls.
Nov. 9: Two women accused former Stanford professors, Franco Moretti and Jay Fliegelman, of sexual assault.
Nov. 14: Palo Alto residents living in RVs along El Camino revealed the depth of Silicon Valley’s affordable housing crisis.
Nov. 15: Richard Spencer visited campus, leading a majority of attendees to stage a walkout of his talk.
Nov. 17: President Tessier-Lavigne announced that the Advisory Committee on the Use of Historical Names on Campus, which did not reach a recommendation on the renaming of places named after Junipero Serra, would be replaced with two new committees.
Nov. 17: Privacy breaches in the University file system affected 200 people, exposing information on sexual violence records, confidential University statistics and emails to the Office of Judicial Affairs.
Dec. 1: A GSB server exposed the personal information of 10,000 Stanford staff, including their social security numbers and salaries.
Dec. 1: Over 3,700 undergraduates participated in the “Stanford Marriage Pact,” which paired students up based on a Nobel Prize-winning algorithm.
Dec. 8: A visiting professor at the School of Medicine was the subject of an unfinished Title IX investigation for sexual misconduct at another institution before being hired by Stanford.