When Leland Stanford died in 1893, the continued existence of the university was in jeopardy due to a federal lawsuit against his estate, but Jane Stanford insisted the university remain in operation throughout the financial crisis. The Stanfords also hired renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who previously designed the Cornell campus, to design the Stanford campus. This guides the campus buildings to this day. They specified in the founding grant that the buildings should "be like the old adobe houses of the early Spanish days they will be one-storied they will have deep window seats and open fireplaces, and the roofs will be covered with the familiar dark red tiles". įrom an architectural point of view, the Stanfords, particularly Jane, wanted their university to look different from the eastern ones, which had often sought to emulate the style of English university buildings. Cornell is credited as one of the first American universities to adopt that radical departure from traditional education, and Stanford became an early adopter as well. Both Cornell and Stanford were among the first to make higher education accessible, non-sectarian, and open to women as well as men. Stanford was referred to as the "Cornell of the West" in 1891 due to a majority of its faculty being former Cornell affiliates (professors, alumni, or both), including its first president, David Starr Jordan, and second president, John Casper Branner. Jane and Leland Stanford modeled their university after the great eastern universities, most specifically Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The institution opened in 1891 on Stanford's previous Palo Alto farm. Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford, dedicated to the memory of Leland Stanford Jr, their only child. Main article: History of Stanford University It is also one of the leading producers of Fulbright Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholars, Rhodes Scholars and members of the United States Congress. In academia, its alumni include the current president of Yale and the provosts of Harvard and Princeton. President Herbert Hoover, the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 74 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts. Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the seventh largest economy in the world (as of 2020 ). In addition, Stanford is particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups. Īs of April 2021, 58 Nobel laureates, 29 Turing Award laureates, and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty, or staff.
In addition, by 2021, Stanford students and alumni had won at least 296 Olympic medals including 150 gold and 79 silver medals. As of May 26, 2022, Stanford has won 131 NCAA team championships, more than any other university, and was awarded the NACDA Directors' Cup for 25 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference.
The university also houses the public policy think tank, the Hoover Institution.
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The university is organized around seven schools on the same campus: three schools consisting of 45 academic departments at the undergraduate level as well as four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Following World War II, provost of Stanford Frederick Terman inspired and supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build a self-sufficient local industry, which would later be known as Silicon Valley. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The university admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world. The campus occupies 8,180 acres (3,310 hectares), among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California.
Stanford Tree (unofficial – no official university mascot)
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