Stanford University apologizes for discriminating against Jewish students in the 1950s

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Stanford University is apologizing for its efforts to limit admission of Jewish students over 60 years ago.

On Wednesday, university president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced recent findings from a task force report showed "parents and friends of applicants, alumni, outside investigators, and trustees" were regularly misled when asked about the prestigious school's admission practices.

A 1953 memo written by Fred Glover, the assistant to then-president Wallace Sterling, stated that accepting applicants from Beverly Hills and Fairfax high schools in Los Angeles would lead to "a flood of Jewish applications" the next admissions cycle. Both schools reportedly had Jewish student populations of 95% to 98% at the time,

The report then stated that admissions director Rixford Snyder ended recruitment at the two high schools. It was not noted if the university took similar actions with other high schools.

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A general view of the buildings of the Main Quadrangle and Hoover Tower on the campus of Stanford University on Oct. 2, 2021.

Tessier-Lavinge sent out a university-wide memo denouncing the former practices, calling them "saddening and deeply troubling."

"On behalf of Stanford University I wish to apologize to the Jewish community, and to our entire university community, both for the actions documented in this report to suppress the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s and for the university’s denials of those actions in the period that followed," the memo read. "These actions were wrong. They were damaging. And they were unacknowledged for too