Faculty College

Faculty College brings small faculty teams together over the course of the academic year to plan, study, and develop innovative curricular and pedagogical ideas. It provides these faculty teams with the space, time, and resources to work collaboratively on projects such as new team-taught courses, a major change to a department's curriculum, or new cross-disciplinary teaching endeavors. The hope is that the focused time spent in Faculty College will lead to critical improvements in undergraduate education and that Faculty College can be an exciting space that continually helps to rejuvenate and foreground the importance of undergraduate education at Stanford.  The inaugural year of Faculty College was 2011-12.  We are pleased to announce our second class for 2012-13.

2012-13 Faculty College Teams

  • Ancient History and Political Science: Stephen Haber, Ian Morris, Josiah Ober, and Walter Scheidel
  • At the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Society: Reinventing STS One at Stanford: Paula Findlen, Jeffrey Heer, John Willinsky
  • Cultures of Knowledge: Paula Findlen, Thomas Mullaney, Reviel Netz, Robert Proctor, Jessica Riskin
  • Department of English: Blalir Hoxby, Gavin Jones, Paula Moya, Chris Rovee, Blakey Vermeule
  • Food Systems: Christopher Gardner, Debra Dunn, Jay Mitchell, Patrick Archie, Matthew Rothe, Julie Reed
  • Human Trafficking and Human Rights: Historical, Legal, and Medical Issues: Katherine Jolluck, Helen Stacy, Rebecca Walker, Suzanne Lippert
  • I-Earth: Rosemary Knight plus team to be finalized
  • Paradigm Shift: Mark Applebaum, Rob Reich

2011-12 Faculty College Teams

  • Ethics of War: Professors Scott Sagan, Debra Satz, Allen Weiner, Paul Wise, and Dr. Joseph Felton

  • Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, new core sequence: Professors Dominic Brookshaw, Adrian Daub, Monika Greenleaf, Sepp Gumbrecht, Hector Hoyos, and Laura Wittman

  • Electrical Engineering, new energy and environment track: Professors Bert Hesselink, John Pauly, Olav Solgaard, and Howard Zebker

  • Social Animals, Social Revolutions, and Social Networks: Professors Dan Edelstein, Deborah Gordon, and Eric Roberts

  • Integrating Design into Bioengineering Major: Professors David Camarillo, Drew Endy, Christina Smolke, and Paul Yock

  • Integrated Learning Environments in the Arts: Professors Jonathan Berger, Janice Ross, and Bryan Wolf

Program Information

Proposals for the 2012-13 Faculty College program are now closed.  For details on the application process, please see the 2012-13 Faculty College request for proposals. For more information on Faculty College, please contact Sharon Palmer at sharon.palmer@stanford.edu.