Breadth Governance Board
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Board Membership 2022-23
Chair and Vice Chair
- Heather Hadlock, Chair, BGB; Music
- Hideo Mabuchi, Vice-chair, BGB; Applied Physics
Board Members
- Shane Denson, Art and Art History
- Kayvon Fatahalian, Computer Science
- Charlotte Fonrobert, Religious Studies
- Amy Freed, Theater Arts Performance Studies
- Fiona Griffiths, History
- David Lobell, Earth System Science
- Lerone Martin, Religious Studies
- Benoit Monin, Psychology
- Aliya Saperstein, Sociology
- Christopher Maximos, Student, Political Science and Symbolic Systems
Ex-Officios
- Kirsti Copeland, School of Engineering
- Johanna Metzgar, Registrar
- Richard Nevle, School of Sustainability
- Sharon Palmer, Office of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
- John Taylor, Chair, C-USP; Economics
- Susan Weersing, School of Humanities and Sciences
History
In 2012, the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford (SUES) recommended the change to a new Ways of Thinking/Ways of Doing (Ways) breadth system as a core part of its aims for a Stanford undergraduate education (owning knowledge, honing skills and capacities, developing personal and social responsibility, and adaptive learning). 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.