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Lost and found items

Please note, found items that were turned in during Family Weekend will be held until two weeks after the event. To inquire if your lost item was turned in and coordinate pickup, please email familyweekend@stanford.edu.

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University Resources

Get connected with the breadth of university resources, services, and programs available to enhance your student’s experience at Stanford. Pages will be updated as Family Weekend approaches, so check back often. Links with an arrow indicate an external site.

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Academic Advising

Academic Advising provides comprehensive academic guidance across all the years of our students' undergraduate careers, from supporting students in their first year (Approaching Stanford, Leland Scholars Program, Frosh 101) to helping with course selection, choice of major, pre-professional pathways, research opportunities, and more.

Stanford Career Education

Stanford Career Education

Stanford Career Education (aka CareerEd) works with campus partners, employers, and alumni to provide students access to the connections, opportunities, resources, and education that advance student success with defining and pursuing careers that have meaning, purpose and impact. We are a full-service resource that works with students as they enter Stanford and ensures their success as recent alumni via our Stanford PlusFive initiative. We look forward to working with your student(s)!

Bechtel International Center

We believe that international educational exchange nurtures a lifelong global perspective and aspire to play a key role in increasing Stanford’s visibility around the world, strengthening Stanford’s position as a global university of consequence.

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Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP)

BOSP offers rigorous academic and experiential programming, affording students an opportunity to be more reflective about the world and their place within it. We invite you to explore our resources and program information on our website.

Campus Bike Shop

Campus Bike shop is located in Tresidder Union near the center of the Stanford University campus. For over 85 years, we have served the biking needs of Stanford students and faculty, our Bay Area neighbors, and visiting friends and families. As the only on-campus bike shop, we recognize the importance of low prices, quality products, skilled repairs, and fast turnaround.

We proudly feature bikes and accessories from quality brands such as Fuji, KHS, Norco, Jamis, and Kryptonite.

We provide affordable short and long term rentals.

Whether you have a flat tire or desire a full tune up, our staff is always ready to assist.

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Cardinal Recovery

Stanford's collegiate recovery program, Cardinal Recovery, provides peer-led support for substance use and behavioral addictions. In addition to facilitating a variety of weekly recovery meetings and mentorship, Stanford affiliates can find inclusion and belonging at substance-free events hosted by Cardinal Recovery. CR also offers academic credit and service learning opportunities to all students.

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Confidential Support Team

The Confidential Support Team provides services to students impacted by sexual, relationship, and or gender-based violence or discrimination. What is said at CST stays at CST.

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Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)

CAPS provides an array of mental health services available to students: consultation, individual clinical care, groups and workshops, and referral assistance for community resources.

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Diversity and Access Office

The D&A Office provides an array of services and resources designed to ensure equal opportunity and equal access, and to address bias and discrimination prohibited by law or official University policy.

Fraternity and Sorority Life

Stanford's Fraternity and Sorority communities offer a vibrant and diverse experience that is as old as the founding of the university. We invite you to come by our table at the Resource Fair to explore the information we have for prospective and current members, community leaders, alumni, parents and family, and friends of the community.

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Haas Center for Public Service, the hub of Cardinal Service

We are the hub of the university-wide Cardinal Service effort and a home for service at Stanford. Students join a caring community, pursue meaningful work, and play a role in creating a more just and sustainable world.

Hillel at Stanford

Hillel is a Jewish home for all students. We'd love to meet you during your visit!

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Institutional Equity & Access

Our vision is to help Stanford create a community in which we all thrive in an equitable, safe, caring, and just environment that is accessible to all community members, supports diversity, and promotes inclusion.

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Office for Military-Affiliated Communities

The Office for Military-Affiliated Communities (OMAC) assists student veterans, their dependents, and ROTC cadets in successfully transitioning into and out of the Stanford community. 

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Office of Special Events & Protocol (OSEP)

OSEP, part of the Office of External Relations, includes a team of experienced event advisors and planners who work to ensure the success of major university events and ceremonies. Among other major events, it produces Commencement Weekend and Family Weekend.

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Office of Substance Use Programs, Education & Resources (SUPER)

The Office of Substance Use Programs, Education & Resources (SUPER) offers a comprehensive public health approach to addressing alcohol and drug use on campus. We believe that families are an important partner in our work and we have established some specific resources for parents/guardians on the subject. Please visit the attached link under "For Parents/Guardians/Families” to learn more.

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Office of the Vice President for the Arts

The Office of the Vice President for the Arts (VPA) focuses on extracurricular and interdisciplinary student programs, public programs and performances, and acts as the central resource for navigating the arts at Stanford.

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Ombuds Office

The Stanford University Ombuds Office is a confidential resource available to Stanford students, faculty and staff to privately discuss any concern that is impacting their Stanford experience. In one-on-one meetings, the Ombuds listens without judgment; offers information on relevant policies and procedures, and helps individuals identify and evaluate options for addressing their concerns. All meetings are kept strictly confidential. For more information on the Ombuds, the office’s services and standards of practice, or to download the most recent Annual Report or brochure, please visit the Ombuds website.

PEERs Health and Wellbeing Educators

The PEERs are paid undergraduate (and co-term) peer educators that Prevent harms, Educate about holistic health and well-being, Empower our community, and Refer students to campus resources. They are trained in the fundamentals of public health as it relates to the following topic areas: substance use, sexual citizenship, and health promotion.

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Recreation and Wellness

Recreation and Wellness provides world-class recreation and wellness programming for the student, staff, faculty, and community of Stanford University and partners with organizations that embody and enhance experiences for lifelong wellness. Through our cause (to ignite a culture of belonging and well-being through movement, play, adventure, and learning), we strive to ensure that a diversity of cultures, races and ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, religious beliefs, physical abilities, learning styles, political views, and other personal facets flourish.

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Research & Independent Projects

Stanford students have undertaken a wide range of independent projects that deepen their understanding and love of a topic, connect them to faculty, and build the foundation for future experiences. Learn about students’ projects and how your student can get started on their own independent project.

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Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE)

R&DE provides student housing, dining and other services for students and the Stanford community.

Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education (SHARE) Title IX Office

Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education (SHARE) Title IX Office

The SHARE Education team develops and contributes to a wide range of programs, projects, and events to increase awareness about sexual and relationship violence, stalking, sexual harassment, and gender-based discrimination and to meet the needs of Stanford students, faculty, and staff. Our programs promote healthy sexuality and relationships, dispel myths about sexual and relationship violence, examine gender roles and how they relate to sexual and relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment, provide guidance on risk reduction, advise students of available resources and explore how each of us can become empowered to end sexual and relationship violence. 

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Stanford Bookstore & Cardinal Tech Center

The Stanford Bookstore and Cardinal Tech Center is your one stop store for all things Stanford. With four floors of best selling and hard-to-find books and course materials, great apparel brands ranging from Nike to Lululemon, drinkware, gifts, and stuff for residence hall rooms, it also boasts a Café featuring Voyager Coffee. The Cardinal Tech Center, located inside the Bookstore, is an Apple Authorized Campus Store with all of the latest tech and gadgets. 

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Stanford Department of Public Safety

The Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) provides law enforcement, security, safety, crime prevention and emergency services on campus 24 hours a day.

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Stanford Federal Credit Union

With over 60 years in the Stanford community, Stanford Credit Union provides better banking options to our Student community at the farm and beyond Stanford. A full-service financial institution is like a bank but better. We are not-for-profit. 

Mind Over Money

Stanford Financial Wellness: Mind Over Money

Mind Over Money serves as a best-in-class program on the Stanford campus that increases all students’ financial wellness with impactful, relevant, and research-informed programming and resources. We offer free financial coaching to students and recent alumni, teach a 1-unit winter course (Wellness 183), and offer free financial education online resources and workshops.

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Stanford Historical Society

The Stanford Historical Society (SHS) provides its members and supporters access to authentic Stanford stories, offering opportunities for preserving and sharing the university’s legacy and celebrating its history.

Center for Teaching and Learning

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) supports and promotes effective teaching and learning across the Stanford community. Our student learning programs includes specialized support for students with learning disabilities and ADHD, tutoring, and language conversation partners.

Stanford Living Education (SLED)

Living Education offers courses and learning experiences that educate the whole student with ideas, skills, and experiences that enhance wellbeing and flourishing. Living Education’s curricular opportunities offer students relational, purposeful, creative, integrative, and proactive pathways to wellbeing and flourishing. Our instructors innovate in the fields of wellbeing, leadership, and flourishing by integrating teaching, scholarship, and practice. Our individual and collective work is grounded in living the values and practices we teach, and our activities and objectives are rooted in justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Stanford Quad Yearbook

From dorm field trips to club retreats, research symposiums to intramural sports, the Stanford Yearbook captures all the moments and experiences from the year that you'll want to remember from your time at Stanford. This year's yearbook promises diverse content and student experiences to help capture all of this year's unforgettable moments.

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Stanford Office for Religious & Spiritual Life

Here at ORSL we guide, nurture and enhance spiritual and religious life within the Stanford University community. Whoever you are, wherever you are on your journey, we are here for you!

Stanford Report

Stanford Report

Stanford Report is the university's internal news portal, where you’ll find messages from university leadership, notices of policy changes, health and safety updates, events and more. The Stanford Report email newsletter, delivered weekday mornings, is packed with announcements, news and upcoming events. Subscribe to the Stanford Report newsletter. 

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Stanford Transportation

Stanford Transportation--Bike, carpool, or transit – we can help you find the best way to get to, from, and around campus.

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Stanford University Financial Aid Office

The Financial Aid Office is here to assist in meeting the full demonstrated need, without loans, for every admitted undergrad who qualifies for financial assistance. Please stop by our table for more infomation and to learn more on how we can assist you with your financial aid needs.

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Vaden Health Center

Vaden Health Center supports student health and well-being and is part of the office of Student Affairs. Learn more about the Center and access Virtual Well-Being Resources. You can also learn more about Cardinal Care, the university sponsored health insurance plan, and see the latest issue of our annual publication, Student Health Matters.

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Weiland Health Initiative

Our mission is to promote mental health and wellness across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual identities through education, training and clinical services at Stanford and beyond!

The Well House

The Well House, or "The Well," provides an environment for students to learn and practice holistic approaches to physical, mental, and emotional health. It aims to create a substance-free undergraduate residential community and experience based on the theme of wellness.

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Resources for Parents

Parents' Club

The Parents’ Club builds community by supporting Stanford students and families.  Founded locally in 1924, the club today consists of parents and guardians from around the world. The club offers a range of programs that directly support students, provides information for parents and guardians via newsletters and our general meetings, organizes social events and provides the university with volunteers at Admit Weekend and New Student Orientation. Members of the Parents' Club also provide volunteer support during Family Weekend.

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Resources for Parents

Parent and Family Engagement

If you have a student at Stanford, chances are The Stanford Fund is helping to make their experience one in which they can learn, grow, and thrive. Stanford family members are known for their generosity and engagement, and there are many ways for you to make difference for all students.