The venerable Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals, serving book publishing and magazine professionals since 1978, has closed, a victim of both the economy and larger transitions in the program’s core fields. Longtime director Holly Brady is leaving Stanford–saying she “expects to continue the conversation from another vantage point here in Silicon Valley”–and her staff has been dismissed. This move comes admits broad cost-cutting at Stanford University, with the school recently disclosing a 27 percent drop in their endowment capital over the last fiscal year, with investment losses of approximately $3.5 billion. They reportedly cut over 400 positions earlier in the […]