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The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) is a student group at Stanford University focusing on business and entrepreneurial activities. One of the largest student-run entrepreneurship organizations in the world, BASES' mission is to promote entrepreneurship education at Stanford University and to empower student entrepreneurs by bringing together the worlds of ...
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford , the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California , and his wife, Jane , in memory of their only child, Leland Jr .
The Black Community Services Center, originally known as the Black Student Volunteer Center, was established in 1969 in response to a series of Stanford University events resulting from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. Since then, the primary goals of the BCSC have changed from being a hub of political activity to a ...
Stanford Online High School, also known as Stanford OHS, SOHS, or OHS, and formerly known as EPGY Online High School, is an online, college preparatory independent school located within Stanford University for academically talented students worldwide. It operates as a six-year school, serving students in grades 7–12.
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 ...
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 ...
Stanford Federal Credit Union was created by a group of Stanford University employees on December 17, 1959. Its original field of membership was limited to employees of the university. The credit union opened in 1960 with $261 in deposits and established its first office in Encina Hall on Stanford University’s campus.
At times Stanford has required undergraduate students to take core courses in various subjects in the humanities and sciences. Some of the core courses include Western Civilization ("Western Civ') taken by all freshmen—first established in 1935 and continued until the mid-1960s.