Nike’s Phil Knight Gives $400 Million to Stanford for Leadership Program

Nike co-founder and chairman Phil Knight has donated $ 400 million to create a scholarship program at Stanford University. In an announcement from the college made on his 78th birthday, Knight will be partnering More...

Stanford, ClassDojo Offer Growth Mindset Program to Community Colleges

Through a partnership with ClassDojo, Stanford University’s Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS) is hoping to encourage a “growth mindset” in students across the country. The effort More...

Stanford Adds Bitcoin Engineering Course, May Grow to MOOC

Stanford University has introduced a new fast-paced, hands-on lab course on creating Bitcoin-enabled applications that requires its participants to hold a background in Python in a Unix environment. The class, More...