1、The Stanford UniversityBrief introductionStudent Enrollment6,994 undergraduates9,128 graduatesFaculty2,153 faculty members20 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community4:1 student to faculty ratioCampus8,180 contiguous acresNearly 700 major buildings97%of undergraduates live on c
2、ampusResearch5,500 externally sponsored projects$1.22 billion total budgetEstablished 1885Opened 189117,6001,55011:1Shaanxi normal University2,70021LeadershipPresident Marc Tessier-LavigneProvost John Etchemendysince 2000Seven SchoolsBusinessEarth SciencesEducationEngineeringHumanities and SciencesL
3、awMedicineEndowment$22.2 billion(as of Aug.31,2015)The world ranking of the StanfordThe Stanford ranks forth in the world universities ranking.The University of Harvard ranks first.The MIT ranks second.The University of California-Berkeley ranks third.InfrastructurelibraryStanford University has 30
4、libraries,not only a collection of more than 650 million copies,and a fully computerized management.Shaanxi Normal University:4 million paper quality books Sports facilityThe schools sports facilities can accommodate 85,000 people stadium,golf course,baseball park,softball field and swimming pool,fu
5、lly reflects the benefits of campus area.CanteenHealth care LocationHistoryThe rudiment of the Stanford In 1876,former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm.He later bought ad
6、joining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres.Leland Stanford,who grew up and studied law in New York,moved West after the gold rush and,like many of his wealthy contemporaries,made his fortune in the railroads.He was a leader of the Republican Party,governor of California and later a U.S.senato
7、r.He and Jane had one son,who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy.Leland Jr.was just 15.Within weeks of his death,the Stanfords decided that,because they no longer could do anything for their own child,the children of California shall be our children.They quickly set
8、 about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.The Stanfords considered several possibilities a university,a technical school,a museum.While on the East Coast,they visited Harvard,MIT,Cornell and Johns Hopkins to seek advice on starting a new university in California.Ultimately,they d
9、ecided to establish two institutions in Leland Juniors name-the University and a museum.From the outset they made some untraditional choices:the university would be coeducational,in a time when most were all-male;non-denominational,when most were associated with a religious organization;and avowedly
10、 practical,producing cultured and useful citizens.On October 1,1891,Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building.The prediction of a New York newspaper that Stanford professors would lecture in marble halls to empty benches was quickly disproved.The first student bod
11、y consisted of 555 men and women,and the original faculty of 15 was expanded to 49 for the second year.The universitys first president was David Starr Jordan,a graduate of Cornell,who left his post as president of Indiana University to join the adventure out West.The Stanford and The Silicon ValleyI
12、n the 1970s,the Stanford rent out 1,000 acres area to the companies that are founded by graduates or industrial and commercial circles.Today,the Stanford is besieged by many technical communities and companies.With the rise of the high technology on the west-coast line,many computer companies pitch
13、camps there,including the century darling Microsoft.From then on,the status of the Stanford becomes more and more important.The Stanford becomes the core of the Silicon Valley and the center of the worldwide technical innovation.School motto The wind of freedom blows This sentence since the 16th cen
14、tury German anthropologist Ulrich von Hutten The motto is to encourage and guarantee students and faculties in the Stanford to do teaching and relevant researching freely.School badgeIt was founded in 1891.The stars represent the schools glorious achievements.Pine trees,symbol of the tenacious will
15、and noble quality,the image of the tree represents the school ents teachingconcept in one hundred.Mountains and rivers and land represents its far-reaching vision and good prospects for development.The wind of freedom blows is the school motto.School songHail Stanford Hail-StanfordUniversity Alma Ma
16、terWhere the rolling foothills riseUp towards mountains higherWhere at eve the Coast Range liesIn the sunset fireFlushing deep and palingHere we raise our voices，hailingThee,our Alma MaterFrom the Foothills to the bayIt shall ringAs we singIt shall ring and float awayHail，Stanford，hail！Hail，Stanford，hail！I found a similarity among all of the famous graduates from the Stanford.They all have the ability to change the world.If you want to know about their story,you can search them on net after class.PS:
