Stanford University has apologized for limiting Jewish student admissions during the 1950s and then denying such a practice existed in the years that followed
The apology comes after a task force appointed by the university’s president in January completed an archive-based report that found that Stanford took actions to suppress its admission of Jewish students.
“However, the report articulates how this effort to suppress Jewish enrollments had long-lasting effects and dissuaded some Jewish students from applying to Stanford in later years,” he said. “This ugly component of Stanford’s history, confirmed by this new report, is saddening and deeply troubling,” Tessier-Lavigne said. “As a university, we must acknowledge it and confront it as a part of our history, as repellent as it is, and seek to do better.