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The interdisciplinary program combines a scholarly focus with practical training to prepare students for careers in public service working on international issues. It is geared toward analysis of international policy issues in diplomacy, governance, cyber security, global health, and environmental policy, and also offers research opportunities.
The Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP), to train teachers, was established in 1959. [4] The STEP program offers two tracks, elementary or secondary. Both are one-year programs including both academic course work and teaching in actual classrooms, and both lead to a Stanford MA degree and a California teaching credential. [5]
Although Stanford Online was founded in 1995 through the Stanford Center for Professional Development, [7] it has a history that spans back to the late 1960s. [8] The start of the center began in part to the Engineering School within the University [8] which created the university's first TV network as a new digital medium for students to take professional online courses and earn academic ...
Originally only for high school students, the Summer Institutes added a middle school program in 2005. In April 2006, Stanford received a private donation from the Malone Family Foundation of Englewood, Colorado, [6] [7] which funded the establishment of an online high school independent of EPGY's regular distance learning courses. Its formal ...
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. [9] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [10] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.
Stanford Knight Management Center, seen from Serra Street. The Knight Management Center is situated within the greater Stanford campus.There are ten buildings at the Knight Management Center: the Gunn Building, Zambrano Hall, North Building, Arbuckle Dining Pavilion, Bass Center, the Faculty Buildings (comprising East and West buildings), the Patterson Building, the MBA Class of 1968 Building ...
The program began in 1966 as the Professional Journalism Fellowships Program at Stanford University. Julius Duscha was associated director from 1966 to 1968. In 1984 it was named after the American newspaper publisher and editor John S. Knight , following a large donation from the Knight Foundation to permanently endow the fellowships.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere, or SEE is an initiative started by Andrew Ng at Stanford University to offer a number of Stanford courses free online. SEE's initial set of courses was funded by Sequoia Capital, and offered instructional videos, reading lists and assignments. The portal was designed to assist both the students and teachers ...