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President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the Board of Trustees approved a campus committee’s recommendation both to remove David Starr Jordan’s name from campus spaces and to take steps to make his multifaceted history as Stanford’s first president better known and understood. Stanford also will relocate a statue of Jordan’s mentor, Louis Agassiz.

Stanford has accelerated the timeline for considering requests to rename Jordan Hall and remove a statue above its entrance. President Marc Tessier-Lavigne appointed a review committee and charged it with delivering recommendations before the beginning of fall quarter 2020.

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will appoint a committee to review requests that question views and practices of the university’s founding president and his mentor.

Among those credited with leading and sustaining the effort proposed by Native American students to rename landmarks honoring Junipero Serra is Carson Smith, now a graduate student at Oxford.

Stanford dedicated Jane Stanford Way, honoring the woman whose vision and leadership had a profound effect on the shaping of the university she co-founded. Leaders of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe participated in the ceremony, welcoming the audience with prayer and song.

University archaeologist Laura Jones discusses the history of Native Americans in the local area, the university’s relationship with the Muwekma Ohlone and the decision to rename landmarks that once honored Junipero Serra.

Serra Mall will be renamed Jane Stanford Way, effective Oct. 7, 2019, following clearance by Santa Clara County and the U.S. Postal Service.

The building housing Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research has been renamed to honor Stanford alumna and psychologist Carolyn Lewis Attneave, who is credited with establishing the field of Native American mental health.

Members of the campus community gathered to rename a residence hall in memory of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride.