The Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals has closed, a victim of both the economy and larger transitions in the program's core fields. This move comes amidst broad cost-cutting at Stanford University. University Librarian Michael Keller writes: "It is deeply troubling to all of us who have been involved in the SPPC over the years, but the recession is affecting the publishing industries and higher education, as it has all other sectors of the global economy."
Spurred by longtime SPPC faculty including Martin Levin, Dorothy Kalins and Paul Saffo, Keller has appointed managing director of Stanford University Press, Geoffrey Burn, as surveyor to study whether another program with a revised pattern of revenue and a different programmatic governance structure might yield an SPPC that is self-sustaining. Burns's assessment and recommendations are due in January. In the interim, this site will remain available, however no courses are currently planned and registrations will not be accepted.
