| Housing |
The Stanford
Faculty Staff Housing Office offers
a variety of programs to enable faculty
to purchase homes. Check this website
to find out the eligibility requirements
for using their programs, and to subscribe
to the campus homes-for-sale list. To
make requests for more information, send
email to FSHousing@forsythe.stanford.edu. Stanford
West Apartments
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Community
Housing Services provides rental
listings of available room, apartments,
cottages, houses, condominums, and temporary
rentals in the communities surrounding
Stanford. They also provide an interactive
atlas enabling you to locate property or
purchase a map of the local area. [NOTE:
Access to the database for housing searches
is restricted to current Stanford students,
faculty, staff, and visiting scholars and
researchers. If you are an incoming Stanford
affiliate, and need a user ID and password
for the "Search for Housing Listings",
please contact Jennifer Padilla-Wong with
your "proof of affiliation" (e.g.,
forward her an email from your hiring department
at Stanford) at padilla-wong@stanford.edu.]
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The Palo
Alto Weekly listings
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The Palo
Alto Daily News listings
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The
San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle Listings
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The San
Jose Mercury News listings
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| For
those in the School of Medicine, there is also
a Relocation web
site. Others might find some useful information
on this site also. |
| Spousal/Partner
Employment |
Open
Faculty Positions at Stanford
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Stanford
is a member of Northern
California Higher Education Consortium (HERC),
a partnership of educational institutions whose
purpose is to promote awareness of employment
opportunities with participating members. You
may conduct a job search for faculty, staff,
and executive positions on their website.
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| Childcare/Pre-schools |
Stanford
has six
on campus children's programs:
Full-Time
Care:
Children's
Center of the Stanford Community (CCSC)
Stanford
Arboretum Children's Center
Knowledge
Beginnings Child Development Center
Part-Time
Care:
Rainbow
School
Bing
Nursery School
School-Age:
Pepper
Tree After School Program (K through 2nd
Grade)
(NOTE:
Stanford programs are often fully enrolled,
but do maintain waiting lists. Contact the
centers directly for current enrollment information
or to obtain waiting list applications.)
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| Worklife |
The WorkLife
Office is dedicated to helping
faculty members achieve a comfortable balance
in their work, study, personal and family
lives. The services offered include childcare
resources and referrals (including emergency
child care programs, and the childcare
subsidy grant program), elder care, and
other parenting resources.
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| Child Care Assistance Program |
Child
Care Subsidy Grant Program
Emergency
and Back-Up Child Care
Junior Faculty Travel GrantPprogram.
For
more childcare information, please see
the Worklife Office.
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New childcare aid program
launched for junior faculty to provide financial
assistance for childcare to families with children
ages 5 and under. For more information see both
this article:
Stanford
Report: New Childcare Program and the WorkLife Office web
site. |
| Also, there
are community resources that may be of interest.
For example, there is a Parents
club of Palo Alto and Menlo Park. |
| Local
School Districts |
Cupertino
Union School District
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Mountain
View-Los Altos Union High School District
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Palo
Alto Unified School District
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Santa
Clara Unified School District
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San
Francisco Unified School District
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San
Mateo/Foster City School District
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Sunnyvale
School District
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| Counseling
Services |
The Stanford
Help Center provides professional,
confidential, brief counseling to the faculty
of Stanford University. Spouses, domestic
partners, and children under 21 are also
eligible for these services. The Help Center
offers an extensive range of services:
individual, couple, and family counseling;
workshops; and peer support groups. All
Help Center services are offered free of
charge and are completely confidential.
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| Campus
Eateries |
Looking
for a place to grab a cup of coffee or espresso,
and maybe even a deli sandwich to go with
that? Consult this
table for location, hours, and phone
numbers of places to eat on campus.
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| Faculty
can also become a member of the Stanford
Faculty Club, and Stanford
Faculty Club Video |
| Off-Campus
Dining |
The
Unofficial Dining Guide. This
service provided by the Stanford Directory allows
you to search restaurants by category from
Californian to Vietnamese. Click "Wining
and Dining" on the left sidebar. Another
source for restaurant listings is Palo
Alto Live.
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| Fitness
Resources |
Information
on the exercise
facilities and programs available
to faculty and recreation schedules.
|
Health
Improvement Program (HIP) schedule
of classes.
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| Club
Sports also
has various activities. In addition, there
is a Stanford
Aerobics and Yoga Group. |
| Stanford
Golf Course has a golf course,
driving range, golf instruction, pro shop
and grill. |
| Bookstore
Services |
All
about the Stanford
Bookstore and its services.
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| Stanford
Federal Credit Union |
Stanford
Federal Credit Union is a
financial institution which is owned and
operated by more than 40,000 members of
the Stanford Community. Since its charter
in 1959, the mission of Stanford Federal
Credit Union (SFCU) has been to fulfill
the financial needs of the Stanford Community.
Because it is a not-for-profit, member-owned
financial institution, members have a direct
impact on how the Credit Union operates.
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| Activities,
Arts, and Entertainment |
Stanford
Lively Arts brings to campus a series
of world-class events in music, dance and
theatre.
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The
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual
Arts. For an exhibit schedule, information
on its collections, hours and more, visit
the Cantor
Center for Visual Arts website.
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Stanford
Report is
a weekly newspaper of interest to faculty
and staff, providing news on campus activities
and upcoming events. The Stanford Report
is available online.
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| Stanford
Insitute for Creatvity and the Arts |
San
Francisco Arts and Entertainment. This
online version of San
Francisco Arts Monthly provides comprehensive
monthly listings of the arts and cultural
events to be found in the San Francisco area.
It also includes links to the S.F. Opera,
the S.F. Ballet and many museums.
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San
Jose Arts and Entertainment. On the City
of San Jose website, you'll find places to
visit, performances to enjoy, sporting events
to attend, festivals to celebrate, and more.
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Films. The
Online Palo
Alto Weekly offers a weekly
updated list of movie times, reviews and theater
locations in Palo Alto and the surrounding
communities
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| Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) also
gives tours. |
| Stanford
Medical Center also
has a variety of lectures and presentations. |
| Museums. There are many museums
both at Stanford and in the surrounding communities. |
| Life
in the Bay Area |
Palo
Alto Online has information on community
news and events, park and recreation facilities,
organizations and businesses, interactive
forums and much more.
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The
Unofficial Guide Online is
the online counterpart to the Stanford
Directory and the Unofficial Guide. This
site provides a searchable directory of
hundreds of local businesses and dining
establishments, as well as an online version
of the entire Unofficial Guide.
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| Stanford
Shopping Center |
| San
Francisco Visitor's Guide |
| Santa
Clara Valley Visitor's Guide |
Web
sites of local newspapers and TV stations.
These sites are definitely worth a look,
and their entertainment sections provide
up-to-date information on what's happening
in the Bay Area.
SFGate. Web gateway of the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner,
and KRON-TV.
BayInsider.
San Francisco Bay Area news and entertainment
from KTVU.
San
Jose Mercury News. Web site of the
local San Jose newspaper
.
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