Autumn in New York. The arts, design, architecture and urban studies. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Just add academic rigor, mentorship and 20 aspirational students. That constitutes the heart of Stanford in New York City, a new three-year pilot program that will open for the fall quarter this year, expand to autumn and winter for 2016-17, and run throughout the academic year in 2017-18.
Aimed toward juniors, the program will make the city a live-in lab for courses, fieldwork, cultural activities and internships of four days per week. The one-quarter experience, which will subsequently offer finance and media, will require a full course load of approximately 15 units.
The director of Stanford in New York City is Rosina Miller, who previously served as executive director of The Philadelphia Center, an experiential education program founded by the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Sociology professor Doug McAdam, whose focus on political sociology includes an emphasis on race in the United States, will live in residence during the opening quarter and teach two elective courses.
“Our program in New York will make an excellent complement to the superb Bing Stanford in Washington program,” noted Harry J. Elam Jr., vice provost for undergraduate education.
The Graduate School of Business Stanford Ignite series will add New York to its locations in March. The certificate program costs $14,500 and offers training and feedback to graduate students, working professionals and entrepreneurs from the faculty who teach Stanford’s MBA courses. Professors are both on-site and available via distance learning such as videoconferencing.
Stanford Ignite participants have started more than 100 companies since the program’s launch in 2006. Stanford Ignite’s other hubs are in Beijing, Paris, Bangalore and Santiago, Chile, as well as on the Stanford campus.
