At its meetings this week, the Board of Trustees also heard about current projects in the arts, took action on building projects and heard from the new leader of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
The trustees approved two statements outlining an updated approach to investment responsibility. Stanford also is committing funding to expand academic offerings in the area of responsible investing and governance.
At its Dec. 3-4 meeting, the Board of Trustees heard presentations on the university’s efforts to advance diversity and inclusion, took action on building projects and visited the School of Engineering.
At its Oct. 14-16 meeting, the Board of Trustees also honored longtime trustee Bob Bass and toured the new Bass Biology Building, which is scheduled to open later in academic year 2018-19.
Two campus buildings currently named for Junipero Serra, the founder of the California mission system, also will be renamed, but other campus references to Serra and the mission system will be retained, based on a set of university committee recommendations accepted by the Board of Trustees.