Faculty Advisory Board

Lis Clemens is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Chicago.  Her interests focus on the areas of organizations and networks.  Clemens is the author of The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics and is currently co-editing a volume that surveys the changing relationships among state agencies, nonprofits, and firms in American political development.
  
Lee S. Shulman is president emeritus of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, having served for eleven years as its eighth president.  He is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology at Stanford.  He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Professing, which looks back on a decade’s research at the Foundation on education in the professions, teacher education, the doctorate and liberal education.

Edward Skloot is Director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society and Professor of Practice at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. He was previously the president of the Surdna Foundation.  The foundation recently published a compilation of Skloot’s recent speeches in the book Beyond the Money: Reflections on Philanthropy, the Nonprofit Sector, and Civic Life, 1999-2006.

Susan Sturm is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School, where her principal areas of teaching and research include institutional change, structural inequality in employment and higher education, employment discrimination, public law remedies, conflict resolution, and civil procedure.  She is co-author of Who’s Qualified? The Future of Affirmative Action.

Burt Weisbrod is John Evans Professor of Economics and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.  He is the author of The Nonprofit Economy and editor of To Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector.  His recent research examines the causes and consequences of the growing commercialism of nonprofits, with a emphasis on universities, reflected in his most recent book Mission and Money.

Cole Wilbur is the former president of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the former executive director and CEO of the Sierra Club Foundation.  Cole currently has numerous board affiliations and is the coauthor of Grantmaking Basics and Grantmaking Basics II. He has spoken to hundreds of groups of foundations and philanthropists around the world regarding ethics and values, and methods to improve how foundation can be more effective.