r/stanford • u/LibrarianNo4048 • 12d ago

Foundry School is sus

So is Stanford’s new Foundry School an attempt to get the Department of Justice to go easy on the School of Medicine for DEI admissions violations?

Manufacturing is basically the least sexy field of study, and Stanford is all about sexy. There’s got to be a reason behind why Stanford is participating in this.

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u/mittelegna 12d ago

I think it’s likely they’re attempting to get generic points any way they can. Everything is transactional with this administration, so any acknowledgement/acquiescence of them or their initiatives is likely to curry favor (at least, that’s probably what they think).

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u/FourScoreAndSept 12d ago

Silicon Valley money (including Stanford) is fickle AF. Just look at Zuckerberg, no moral center just reacts to the latest political winds

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u/stmmotor 12d ago

Manufacturing @ the dawn of physical AI is exploding.

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u/unoriginalusername29 '16 12d ago

Least sexy is a matter of opinion. At such an engineering-heavy school, I’d wager the majority finds manufacturing to be sexier than law or business, and we have graduate schools dedicated to each of those.

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u/Worldly_Magazine_439 12d ago

Stanford has like 2 black people on the campus. What DEI admissions are you talking about 🙃😑😑

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u/Electronic-Dish-4963 12d ago

They’re downvoting you but you’re right

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u/Worldly_Magazine_439 12d ago

Kinda wild isn’t it 🫠. Incoming class has 74 black students. Might as well be a rounding error