The Undergraduate Senate (UGS) considered enhancing Title IX education and passed a bill to establish Notes from the Farm, a student group aimed at creating a book on campus experiences for incoming undergraduates, as an Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) service organization at their Wednesday meeting.
The joint-resolution with the Graduate Student Senate (GSC) to “enhance Title IX education and engagement” aims to expand Title IX education into a four-year program with tailored curriculum for each grade level and shift the culture surrounding Title IX through “thought-input sessions,” an “ambassador program,” “neighborhood and dorm-based training” and “emergency contraception accessibility.”
In 2024, 32% of undergraduate women, 13% of undergraduate men, 23% of graduate women and 8% of graduate men reported “experiencing sexual harassment behaviors” at Stanford.
UGS Co-Chair Ivy Chen ’26, underscored the timeliness of the resolution. “Especially with a lot of recent orders from the federal administration on how to regulate Title IX, I think this resolution is more important than ever to discuss,” she said. “It’s really concerning that we [only] have a one quarter [sexual assault] education system here.”
Chen said that, currently, “the goal of this resolution is to keep it vague so it can get passed and it can get held up to the attention of the Faculty Senate and then continue to workshop and refine so that it is more detailed and narrow.”
The UGS hopes to begin voting on the resolution next week.
The UGS also unanimously passed a resolution to establish Notes from the Farm, a student-run collective seeking to gather student stories, campus culture and Stanford traditions into a physical book to share with incoming undergraduates, as an ASSU service organization.
ASSU president Diego Kagurabadza ’25 highlighted that Notes from the Farm will not use ASSU or student funding and instead plans to operate on alumni donations. Kagurabadza said that Notes from the Farm will serve as a “pilot program” and that the UGS will re-evaluate the status of the organization next year after the organization has distributed the books and measured their impact on students’ sense of belonging.
David Sengthay ’26, the UGS appropriations chair, voiced “full support” for the organization.
“I wrote my own ‘I Am Stanford’ post, and I talked about losing my election for sophomore president and then coming into my sophomore year,” Sengthay said. “So, I really do appreciate the sense of a first-year student reading a very raw story about a challenge someone faced on campus.”
The UGS also briefly considered social media reports of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) on campus last Friday.
Kagurabadza, who sent a campus-wide email on Friday clarifying that the ASSU “cannot verify these sightings” and providing information for students “concerned about their legal status or background,” told the UGS that there “appears to be a heightened security presence on campus in the last few days.”
Kagurabadza said he hopes to follow up with the president and provost on the reports of immigration enforcement officials and the potential additional security measures at Thursday’s Faculty Senate meeting.