Tim Stanton : Interview for the John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Tim Stanton, Associate Director and Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford from 1985 to 1999, shares his memories of John W. Gardner and the importance of service learning in higher education. Stanton begins by describing how while working at Cornell University he came across a piece written by Stanford president Don Kennedy on the importance of public service. He recalls meeting with Kennedy and Catherine Milton to learn about Stanford’s Public Service Center, now the Haas Center for Public Service--a meeting that resulted in Stanton’s hiring at Stanford. Stanton recalls first coming across John W. Gardner in high school when his mother gave him one of Gardner’s books to read. He describes his admiration for Gardner upon his arrival at Stanford and the establishment of the Haas Professorship at the Public Service Center. He recalls how meaningful it was to later have Gardner on Stanford’s campus and around the Public Service Center. Stanton emphasizes the importance of having Don Kennedy’s support in furthering the role of public service in the Stanford education and describes the work that he and Gardner did with other universities as part of Campus Compact. He concludes the interview by reflecting on the importance of Gardner’s legacy today.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Extent | 1 text file |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Date created | August 14, 2018 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Stanton, Timothy | |
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Creator | Stanton, Timothy | |
Interviewer | Schmidt-Posner, Jackie | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 |
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Subject | Civil Society > United States |
Subject | Haas Center for Public Service (Stanford University) |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Biographical profile | Tim Stanton is Senior Consultant/Engaged Scholar for Ravensong Associates, through which he consults on global service-learning design, development and research in the US, Africa and Asia. He was founding director of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program in Cape Town, where he established and coordinated the Community-Based Partnership Research Programme (2008-2014). Prior to joining Overseas Studies Tim co-founded and directed Public Service Medical Scholars and the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health at Stanford Medical School (2000-2006). He served as Associate Director and Director of Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service from 1985 to 1999. It was in this role that Stanton worked closely with John W. Gardner. Over his twenty-nine years at Stanford Stanton offered courses in African Studies, American Studies, Education, Medicine, Public Policy, and Urban Studies. Prior to coming to Stanford Stanton directed the Human Ecology Field Studies Program at Cornell University (1977-1984). He earned his AB degree in English at Stanford (1965), an MA in education at San Francisco State University (1976), and a PhD in human and organization systems at the Fielding Institute (1994). He served as adjunct lecturer in education for Queens University (2007-2013) and as the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor in International Studies at Northwestern University (2016). Stanton is past president of the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE), which named him a “Distinguished Scholar” in 2014. Shortly after his arrival at Stanford he assisted President Donald Kennedy in establishing Campus Compact. Beginning in 1996 he assisted Kennedy and David Warren (president of Ohio Wesleyan University) in establishing the Integrating Service and Academic Study (ISAS) project, which culminated in three national faculty institutes on curriculum development for service-learning. As Compact Engaged Scholar (2006-2014) Stanton helped organize and coordinate the Research Universities Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN), a national initiative on community engagement and research universities. With TRUCEN colleagues he developed the Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit (2013). He has published numerous articles on service-learning and the liberal arts, community engaged scholarship in the US and overseas, and community-based partnership research. He co-authored a book, Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future, which remains the only publication of research on the field’s first thirty years. |
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Finding Aid | |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/cc039qv8268 |
Location | SC1355 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
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- Use and reproduction
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- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
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