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Campus News
From Russia, With Love
Stanford University Libraries
and the Hoover Institution recently acquired the family archives of the late Josephine
Pasternak, daughter of Russian impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak and sister of
poet and writer Boris Pasternak. In this 1980 photograph, Josephine poses with
paintings of herself done by her father. The Pasternak collection, which will be
housed at the Hoover Institution, includes family correspondence and manuscripts, many
of them previously unpublished. The Hoover Institution has one of the country’s most
significant collections on the history of Russia in the 20th century.
 Josephine Pasternak
Yield Rate Up
Stanford’s closely watched “yield
rate” - the number of admitted freshmen who
decide to enroll - was 61.4 percent
this year, up from 55.1 percent last year. James Montoya, dean of undergraduate
admissions and financial aid, said the university’s Early Decision program, offered
for the first time this year, was a key factor in the increase. Thirty-five percent of
the freshmen who will enroll this fall were accepted through the new program. Those
students had to commit to enrolling at Stanford in exchange for an earlier-than-normal
admission decision. Montoya also cited increased involvement of faculty members and
alumni in the admissions process. Alumni and parents hosted 21 receptions for
prospective freshmen around the country. Also contributing to the strong yield,
Montoya said, was a closer coordination between the Undergraduate Admissions and
Financial Aid staffs.
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