Stanford Band at the 2016 Rose Bowl Game (Image credit: L.A. Cicero)

Stanford Provost John Etchemendy has accepted proposals from the Stanford Band to address concerns about its organizational conduct. Convinced by the strength of those proposals, the provost is replacing a previously announced Band suspension with a pathway for the Band to resume activities as a student-run organization.

In a Thursday letter to Band leadership, the provost said he was impressed by the quality of the Band’s appeal of the suspension and the Band’s acknowledgment of past failures to achieve its own ideal of inclusiveness.

Moreover, he said, the Band’s new management team had taken “an impressive set of actions” since the announcement of the suspension and had outlined “thoughtful and realistic” steps for improvement. They include a new Band management structure, mechanisms for monitoring the Band’s success in making organizational reforms and steps to codify and communicate internally the Band’s behavioral aspirations.

“If carried out with the determination you have demonstrated in the past six weeks, the process you propose will ensure continued student leadership of the Band while putting in place sufficient structure to head off a recurrence of serious behavioral lapses,” Etchemendy wrote.

Under the outcome approved by the provost: