Stanford University

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City:  | Stanford, California
Type:  | Private
Sports:  | baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, rowing, rowing ltw, sailing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming and diving, sync swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, wresting[1]
Colors:  | red, white
Mascot:  | Stanford Tree (Cardinal)[2]
Endowment:  | $27.7 billion (as of 6/30/19)[3]
Website:  | http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford University, in the town of Stanford and the city of Palo Alto, California, is a private university in the United States. It was founded in 1891 by the gift of the successful businessman Leland Stanford (1824-1893), a former governor of California, on the site of his country estate.[4]

Stanford is one of the world's leading research institutions, with top professors and researchers in the fields of physics, medicine, engineering, and the natural sciences.[5]

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranked Stanford as the worst college in the country on the issue of freedom of speech.[6][7] Additional criticism of Stanford for its liberal policies include Stanford's:

* expelling a doctoral student from its program because he told the truth about mandatory abortion in China
* Banning of all ROTC programs because they allegedly discriminate against homosexuals.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ http://gostanford.cstv.com/
2. ↑ The mascot name is singular and refers to the shade of red, not the bird.
3. ↑ U.S. and Canadian 2019 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2019 Endowment Market Value, and Percentage Change in Market Value from FY18 to FY19 (PDF). Retrieved on 2020-09-06.
4. ↑ http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/begin.html#Pro
5. ↑ http://www.stanford.edu/
6. ↑ https://www.thefire.org/10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2022/
7. ↑ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/at-stanford-the-new-applied-science-is-social-engineering

## See also[edit]

* California and Northern California
* San Francisco Bay Area
* San Francisco: San Francisco values and the Homosexual agenda
* Berkeley and Oakland
* University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and University of California, Davis‎
* Silicon Valley: San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz

## External links[edit]

* Official Website

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