PACS Advisory Board Member
Roberta Denning
Ms. Denning graduated from Stanford in 1975 in English with Honors in Humanities. She earned her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is currently the Chair of the Arts Advisory Council at Stanford, as well as a member of Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences Council. She is a member of the Exhibitions Committee of the International Center of Photography in New York. Ms. Denning is the former President of the Board of Greenwich Library, in Greenwich, Connecticut; the former President of the Board of the Greenwich Country Day School; and the former Chairman of the Board of the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich. She has also served as a trustee of the Performing Arts Center Foundation in Purchase, New York; a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College; a trustee of the United Way of Greenwich; and a member of the Advisory Council of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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.
