Breadth Governance Board
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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.