01-27-2026, 02:00 PM
(01-27-2026, 01:21 PM)paloalto Wrote: Before creating new majors Stanford should ask some questions first.
How many top-level football prospects choose a college based on a major it offers?
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As you, BC and others have suggested, this is the tail wagging the dog. I strongly disagree with this approach.
As Sam pointed out, Stanford already has an undergraduate program in Science, Technology, and Society (founded in 1971 by the way) and the post-baccalaureate program so grad transfers don't have to be admitted into a Stanford graduate degree program.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)