The Cubberley Lecture is the Graduate School of Education's signature and largest lecture, and one of Stanford’s oldest and most distinguished public events.
The lecture series highlights critical issues in the field of education by bringing leading education voices in conversation with Graduate School of Education faculty.
Well known in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, the lecture features nationally and internationally recognized speakers and takes place on the Stanford campus.
The 2025 program will be announced in March.
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In 1898, Stanford president David Starr Jordan asked Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, a former teacher and then superintendent of the San Diego schools, to "take charge of an embryo department of education at this embryo university."
By 1938, royalties from Professor Cubberley’s textbook had funded construction of the School of Education building and his former students had created a fund for a new Stanford lecture series dedicated to highlighting matters of critical educational concern. Dr. Harold Benjamin, Director of the College of Education, University of Colorado, delivered the first Cubberley Lecture titled “The Emerging Conception of Educational Administration” at the November 12, 1938 new building dedication exercises.
Today, the Cubberley Lecture strives to reflect the school’s vision of a world where all learners are prepared to thrive in a dynamic future.
See a complete list of Cubberley Lectures since 1996 in the Cubberley Lecture Archive.
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