Timeline
1933
The hall that textbooks built
Cubberley retires. He and his wife, Helen, give Stanford the invested proceeds from his many books – some $367,000 – for a School of Education building and the Cubberley Lecture Series, which continues today.
Elwood & Helen Cubberley watch the building they funded rise on Lasuen Mall in 1936.
The Stanford Daily
1954
First endowed faculty chairs
Gifts from the Jacks family create the school’s first
two (and Stanford’s 6th and 7th) endowed professorships,
initially awarded to Paul Hanna and William Cowley. The Jacks gifts, totaling
$10 million, are Stanford’s largest since the university’s founding.
Today, the
Graduate School of Education has four Jacks faculty chairs and 18 endowed
chairs in all.
In Stanford tradition, the holder of an endowed faculty chair receives an actual inscribed chair. Charles E. Ducommun endowed a position in 1991 to improve pre-collegiate and collegiate teaching.
1959
STEP begins
The Stanford Teacher Education Program begins with a $900,000 gift from the Ford Foundation.
Mary Paulsen, MA ’60, teaches a lesson in Cold War civics while in STEP's inaugural cohort. She taught for decades at Palo Alto's Cubberley High School.
Stanford News Service
1968
Federal funding
The U.S. Department of Education gives $4.2 million for the future CERAS building.
White Plaza in 1968. Stanford's dress code for women was lifted around this time.
Stanford University Archives
2006
A lift for future teachers
Judy Avery, ’59, helps lift bars to a Stanford teaching degree with her $10 million gift, matched by the university, toward student-loan forgiveness for STEP graduates who teach in public or under-resourced private schools.
Judy Avery chats with Marc Hua, MA ’11.
2010
Jewish studies
The Jim Joseph Foundation gives $12 million to create a doctoral and research concentration in education and Jewish studies. It is the largest gift in the School of Education’s history.
Ari Kelman, the inaugural Jim Joseph Professor in Education and Jewish Studies, speaks in 2015.
2013
Helping teachers to bloom where they're needed most
The Hollyhock Fellowship
program brings talented early-career teachers to campus for skill-building,
support and enrichment to help teachers persist and thrive in the
classroom.
It joins such professional-development activities from the GSE's Center to Support Excellence in Teaching as courses at school sites
and the summer Stanford Teaching Festival on
campus.
Hollyhock History Fellows Harmon Brownlow, left, and Elizabeth Calvert-Kilbane in summer 2015. Fellows gain content knowledge as well as pedagogical and leadership tools.
