Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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for a program based on the needs of students in the Forties and Fifties cannot hope to meet adequately the needs of students today. Stanford’s concern in this regard is shown in the creation of the Study of Education at Stanford, and in the heed that has been paid to the Study’s recommendations so far. The purpose of the Study, as officially stated, is “to review Stanford’s educational programs and to submit recommendations on their future course,” and to this end, the Study has created many subcommittees, each investigating various aspects of graduate and undergraduate education. Recommendations of the Study that have been acted upon so far have resulted in the establishment of the experimental coeducational housing program this year, and the creation of interdepartmental 26

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the choice is relatively clea.% and is reflected in the course of Stanford's recent history. The result has been a tremendous enhancement of Stanford's stature that has enabled it to attract unrestricted funds, reducing both the University’s obligation to the “military-industrial complex” and the concentration of funds in the sciences and engineering. Programs such as PACE, which raised $75 million in three years, and similar fund-raising projects are indicative of this new ability. Thus, the question now, in this period of change and development, is not so much one of financial stability as it is of course and direction. The goals and objectives of the University need to be reevaluated and redefined before any future action is taken. With rapid changes in society affecting not only the environment of the University, but also the needs and expectations of its students, it cannot afford to rely on outmoded or irrelevant ideals of education or purpose. This is of crucial importance, 25

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