Stanford Classrooms Reimagined

Stanford Classrooms Reimagined is the University's ten year strategic plan to ascertain and support the changing teaching and learning  needs of our faculty and students, to address the gap between the existing and desired classroom inventory, and to optimize campus investments in campus classrooms and informal learning spaces.

Progress Updates

Read about our recent progress in the project...

Autumn 2025 Classrooms: Upgrades in progress and new classrooms planned for Autumn 2025. By the end of summer 2025, we will have completed 132 (77%) and fully on track to complete Round 1 of the 7 year refresh cycle on time. 

Autumn 2024 Classrooms Update. As of Autumn 2024 we have refreshed 107 of the 172 University Classrooms (62%). Refreshed rooms include University Classrooms in Building 70, 370, Margaret Jacks, Mechanical Engineering, Blume Earthquake Center, Dinkelspiel, Shriram, Y2E2, Encina, and Turing.  Read the full SCR Program Update as of January 2025. 

In partnership with LBRE, we are pleased to open five new classrooms and new study space in the Lathrop Library basement.  

Classroom Clocks. As classroom AV is refreshed, clocks are securely installed. Because the new power-over-ethernet (POE) clocks are tied to the local time server, time.stanford.edu, clocks will not require biannual time change or battery change. For classrooms that have not yet been refreshed, new battery-powered clocks have been hung as a stop gap measure. 

The Classroom Access Discovery Project recommends a multi-prong approach to increasing access and utilization of University Classrooms. Subsequent Capital Plan funding has launched a multi-year program to install new Lenel readers and rekey doors to facilitate classroom access while providing building security, and improve lock out response protocols and training. Lenel readers are being added to priority classrooms beginning Spring break 2025. Student Academic Services is partnering with LBRE Facilities and the IT Operations Center (ITOC) to review and streamline lock out response protocols. 

• Classroom Access Discovery Presentation
• Classroom Access Discovery Report - Findings and Recommendations

FY23 Classrooms Annual Update. FY23 represents Stanford’s Year 2 of Stanford Classrooms Reimagined, our 10 year strategic plan for campus classrooms. Autumn 2023 Classrooms Update

FY22 Classrooms Annual Update. Following successful furniture and technology pilots during AY2021-2022, Stanford launched the first year of full funding for Stanford Classrooms Reimagined with 60 classroom upgrades completed in one summer.

FY21 Stanford Classrooms Reimagined Launched. 

March 2020. LTS presented Stanford Classrooms Reimagined to the President, Provost and Executive Cabinet. 

December 2019. The LTS Stanford Classrooms Reimagined team presented preliminary findings to the Stanford community at two preview events. Find out what they learned and how the Stanford community provided feedback.

• View the slides from the SCR Preview Events
• View the video from the SCR Preview Events

Explore key areas and concepts from the Report...