Updated | As winter quarter ended here at Stanford, a bunch of new reading on “massive open online courses” cropped up. Here are pieces I just added to my reader on the subject.
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ASSU alumni are not pleased about constitutional-reform push
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Updated | Thirty-four alumni of Stanford student government signed a letter tonight to the executives and undergraduate and graduate legislatures (listserv archive here). They called for a delay of the constitutional reform that current ASSU leaders are trying to push through so the public has more time to review the proposal.
Greg Smith, Stanford Daily author?
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Updated | Greg Smith of “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs” said he joined the bank almost 12 years ago, “right out of college,” where he had “a full scholarship to go from South Africa to Stanford University.” He played table tennis, he said.
How Stanford proposed paying for its New York City campus
What I saw in my glimpse of Stanford’s New York proposal — and why it’s not at the library yet
"As is well known in Silicon Valley, not all great ideas work out, but that does not mean it is a mistake to pursue them," Stanford says. (PhillipC/Flickr)
Stanford’s plan to build a New York City campus is now long dead, but the exercise is still a conversation starter in some corners of campus. In a two-part series for The Stanford Daily this quarter, Caroline Chen showed high-level university officials willing to discuss what happened and suggesting the process would influence Stanford in the future.
‘Massive open online courses’ reader updated
I added two links today to my reader on “massive open online courses” at Stanford.