[chrisk]

The administration above Muir wants a smaller proportion of the student body to be scholarship athletes, and less "privileged" ones at that.  If you start with that premise, everything makes a lot more sense.  It explains why no amount of fundraising is going to resurrect those sports.  It explains why the operating cost savings are de minimis.  With the exception of wrestling, it also largely explains why the sports that were cut were chosen.

If you really buy the explanation that Muir has been offering, I have a bridge somewhere to sell...

BC

How much of this is related to the failure to get a new General Use Permit?

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/sta...plication/

Essentially, Stanford has run out of permitted expansion on campus, and it failed to sell Santa Clara County politicians on its plan for the future. In November 2019, Stanford pulled its application for its GUP which would have covered its expansion over the next 15 years. Without the capacity to add more students and employees, they may be looking to reallocate the existing spots. As noted, they have been moving many employees to Redwood City and Menlo Park.

[chrisk]

The administration above Muir wants a smaller proportion of the student body to be scholarship athletes, and less "privileged" ones at that.  If you start with that premise, everything makes a lot more sense.  It explains why no amount of fundraising is going to resurrect those sports.  It explains why the operating cost savings are de minimis.  With the exception of wrestling, it also largely explains why the sports that were cut were chosen.

If you really buy the explanation that Muir has been offering, I have a bridge somewhere to sell...

BC

How much of this is related to the failure to get a new General Use Permit?

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/11/01/sta...plication/

Essentially, Stanford has run out of permitted expansion on campus, and it failed to sell Santa Clara County politicians on its plan for the future. In November 2019, Stanford pulled its application for its GUP which would have covered its expansion over the next 15 years. Without the capacity to add more students and employees, they may be looking to reallocate the existing spots. As noted, they have been moving many employees to Redwood City and Menlo Park.