Academic-Residential Co-Curriculum
VPUE’s Academic-Residential Co-Curriculum (ARC) program aims to connect undergraduates with faculty and academic staff. ARC seeks to enhance undergraduates’ opportunities to form lasting professional relationships and networks, and to develop lifelong mentors.
Our funding is for ideas that facilitate academic enhancement to help build Stanford's co-curriculum and maximize the potential of our all-residential campus.
We focus on:
- developing spaces for intellectual and academic exchange and conversation outside the formal classroom;
- providing significantly enhanced opportunities for faculty-student connection and network-building;
- helping develop friendly events and mixers for mentorship and informal advising;
- supporting efforts to nurture students’ confidence, positivity, and sense of belonging;
- building faculty understanding of students—their lives, ambitions, and interests.
Examples of programs run or supported by ARC:
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR led by Professor Linda Paulson
- "Heartrender" - A Student-generated project
- Ancient Egypt in California (San Jose and Los Angeles) led by Professor Grant Parker
- "Negotiating Transitions" panel with the Distinguished Careers Institute for Transfer students
- "Family Dinners" hosted by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice
- Small group coffee hours with Faculty and Senior Lecturers (ex. Professor Jamil Zaki, Senior Lecturer Nick Parlante) led by Jennifer Randall Crosby
ARC Grants
Connecting students and academic colleagues to maximize the potential intellectual energy of our residential campus.
ARC Fellows
ARC Fellows amplify the work of the Academic-Residential Co-Curriculum in creating new opportunities for undergraduates to connect with faculty and instructors outside the classroom.
Campus Connections
Discovering the expertise of the broader Stanford community to benefit students’ networks.
Nexus Departmental Grant
The Nexus Departmental Grant is designed to facilitate the building of a Stanford co-curriculum that creates and enhances sustainable connections between faculty and students throughout our all-residential campus.
University Theme House - Academic
Enhancing the academic life of students in the residences.
ARC Advisory Board:
- Moses Charikar, Donald E. Knuth Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Mathematics | Computer Science
- Jennifer Randall Crosby, Psych One Coordinator | Department of Psychology | Resident Fellow in Soto
- Stephen Monismith, Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering | Professor of Oceans | Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature | Classics | Resident Fellow in Toyon
- Laura Schlosberg, Assistant Dean of Academic and Curriculum Support | H&S Dean's Office
- Alice Staveley, Senior Lecturer | Department of English
- Elaine Treharne, Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education | Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English | Robert K. Packard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Director, Stanford Text Technologies | Department of English