Breadth Governance Board
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Board Membership 2023-24
Chair
- Hideo Mabuchi, Chair, BGB; Applied Physics
Board Members
- Justin Du Bois, Chemistry
- Kayvon Fatahalian, Computer Science
- Amy Freed, Theater Arts Performance Studies
- Miyako Inoue, Anthropology
- Jamie Meltzer, Art and Art History
- Mark McGurl, English
- Benoit Monin, Psychology
- Aliya Saperstein, Sociology
- Mikael Wolfe, History
- Anusha Dwarkanath, Student, Undeclared
- Claudia Sung, Student, Undeclared
Ex-Officios
- Kirsti Copeland, School of Engineering
- Kate Maher, Chair, C-USP; Earth System Sience
- Johanna Metzgar, Registrar
- Richard Nevle, School of Sustainability
- Sharon Palmer, Office of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
- 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.