Breadth Governance Board

Board Membership 2024-25

Chair

• Hideo Mabuchi, Chair, Applied Physics
• Haiyan Lee, Vice Chair, EALC/Comparative Literature

Board Members

• Yuliya Ilchuk, Slavic Languages and Literature
• Miyako Inoue, Anthropology
• Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History/FemGen/DAAAS
• Mark McGurl, English
• Jamie Meltzer, Art and Art History
• Dustin Schroeder, Geophysics/Electrical Engineering
• Mikael Wolfe, History
• Mary Wootters, Computer Science/Electrical Engineering 
• Christine Min Wotipka, GSE/Sociology
• Claudia Sung, Student, Undeclared 

Ex-Officios

• Kirsti Copeland, School of Engineering
• Alyssa Ferree, School of Sustainability
• Johanna Metzgar, Registrar
• Sharon Palmer, Office of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
• Chiara Sabatti, C-USP Chair, Biomedical Data Science
• Susan Weersing, School of Humanities and Sciences

History

In 2012, the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford (SUES) recommended the change to the Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing (Ways) breadth system as a core part of its aims for a Stanford undergraduate education. SUES and the Faculty Senate believed that undergraduate education would be better structured by shifting from a discipline-based to a skills/capacity-based model of achieving breadth. The Ways system is a Faculty Senate mandated program with a Charge to the Breadth Governance Board that oversees the Ways program.