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Members of the accreditation committees

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The accreditation process is led by the accreditation steering committee and supported by an advisory committee of faculty and staff from across the university. To contact us, write to accreditation@stanford.edu 

Accreditation Steering Committee

  • Zack Al-Witri, Project Manager for the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
  • Stacey Bent, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs, Jagdeep & Roshni Singh Professor in the School of Engineering
  • Gordon Chang (to August 2022), Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities
  • Sarah Church, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Freeman-Thornton Chair for the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Physics
  • Brian Cook, Senior Director of Assessment and Program Evaluation, IR&DS
  • Larry Gallagher, Senior Assessment and Program Evaluation Analyst, IR&DS
  • Lynn Hildemann, Senior Associate Vice Provost, VPUE, Senior Associate Dean for Education in the Doerr School of Sustainability, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Chris Gonzalez Clarke, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Director, EDGE Fellowship Program
  • Stephanie Kalfayan, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (Accreditation Liaison Officer)
  • Shari Palmer, Senior Associate Vice Provost, VPUE
  • Corrie Potter, Associate Vice Provost and Director of Institutional Research and Decision Support
  • Julie Remold, Director of Evaluation, VPUE
  • Nikki Shechtman (to Jan 2022), Director of Evaluation, VPGE
  • Elaine Treharne, Senior Associate Vice Provost, VPUE and Roberta Bowman Denning Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature

Accreditation Advisory Committee

  • Susie Brubaker-Cole, Vice Provost for Student Affairs
  • Gordon Chang, Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities (from August 2022)
  • Shu-Ling Chen, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Education
  • Kirsti Copeland, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, School of Engineering
  • Susan Drange, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of Programs, Faculty Development, Diversity, and Engagement
  • Patrick Dunkley, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community and Director of IDEAL
  • Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French and Professor, by courtesy, of History and of Political Science, and Faculty Director of Stanford Introductory Studies, VPUE
  • Ashish GoelChair of the Committee on Review of the Major, Professor of Management Science and Engineering (from August 2022)
  • Jay Hamilton, Chair of the First Year Governance Board, Hearst Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Tom Kenny, Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering (from August 2022)
  • Haiyan Lee, Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Comparative Literature
  • Johanna Metzgar, Associate Vice Provost for Student and Academic Services and University Registrar
  • Mary Beth Mudgett, Senior Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences, School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Biology
  • Brad Osgood, Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Education
  • Emelyn dela Pena (to June 2022), Associate Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning
  • Vaughn Rasberry, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education, VPGE, and Associate Professor of English (from August 2022)
  • Jennifer Saltzman, Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
  • Samuel Santos, Associate Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning (from August 2022)
  • Laura Schlosberg, Assistant Dean of Academic and Curriculum Support, School of Humanities and Sciences
  • Sheri Sheppard, Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus
  • Matt Snipp, Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Diversity and Engagement and Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor
  • John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor, George P. Shultz Senior Fellow of Economics at the Hoover Institution and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Ayodele Thomas, Associate Vice President for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, University HR
  • Cassandra Volpe Horii, Associate Vice Provost for Education and Director, Faculty and Lecturer Programs, Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Guadalupe Valdes, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Emerita
  • Tiziana VanorioAssociate Professor of Geological Sciences and, by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Geophysics
  • Brendan Walsh, Director of International Affairs
  • Suzi Weersing, Associate Dean, Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences
  • Laura Wittman, Associate Professor of French and Italian