People Behind PACS
Faculty Co-Directors
Debra Meyerson
Associate Professor of Education and affiliated Professor of Organizational Behavior.
Associate Professor of Education and affiliated Professor of Organizational Behavior.
Walter W. Powell
Professor of Education; affiliated Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication; and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford.
Professor of Education; affiliated Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication; and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford.
Rob Reich
Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society and affiliated Professor of Education.
Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society and affiliated Professor of Education.
Staff
Executive Director
Shana Sachs
Program Manager
Faculty Steering Committee
Richard Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at the Law School.
Stephen Barley
Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Co- Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford's School of Engineering; and Co-Director of the Stanford/General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory.
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; affiliated Professor of Political Science and Sociology; and Coordinator of the Democracy Program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
Frank Flynn
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business.
Douglas McAdam
Professor of Sociology, Program Director of Urban Studies, and Former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Milbrey McLaughlin
David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy; Director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching; and Founding Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
Debra Meyerson
Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Associate Professor of Education, and affiliated Professor of Organizational Behavior.
Anne Firth Murray
Founding President of the Global Fund for Women and Consulting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University.
Leonard Ortolano
UPS Foundation Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Former Peter E. Haas Director of the Haas Center for Public Service.
Walter W. Powell
Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Professor of Education; affiliated Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication; and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium on Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford.
Rob Reich
Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society and affiliated Professor of Education.
Bruce Sievers
Senior Fellow of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Consulting Director of the Skirball Foundation, Visiting Scholar at the Haas Center for Public Service, and Former Director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.
Student Testimonial
PACS Undergraduate Lauren Finzer '09 speaks about the influential role PACS had on her Stanford academic career and how PACS is creating the next generation of philanthropic change agents.
PIPE Conference
PACS recently hosted a research conference to launch the project on Private Initiatives in Public Education (PIPE) that brought together leading scholars and practitioners who are working on projects related to emerging trends and cross-sector innovations in public education. Specifically, the conference explored the following themes:
1) The influence of philanthropic and private intermediary organizations in education;
2) Models of organizing diverse providers (charters and district schools) of public education;
3) Innovations in the development of human capital for education;
4) Entrepreneurship in the era of Obama.
The conference also set out to establish an agenda for future research in these areas.
