Timothy K. Stanton, Ph.D.
Tim Stanton serves as director of the Public Service Medical Scholars program (PriSMS) and lecturer in Health Research Policy in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. As lecturer, Stanton instructs graduate and undergraduate service-learning courses that focus on public decision-making in local communities and the process and practice of community service.
From 1985 to 1999 Stanton served as associate director and director of Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service. The Haas Center involves more than 2,500 students annually in a wide variety of public and community service activities and organizes faculty, students, and communitybased professionals to develop curriculum that combines community service-based learning with academic study.
From 1977 to 1985 Stanton directed and taught courses within the Human Ecology Field Study Program at Cornell University. Prior to entering higher education he founded and directed a community-based service-learning program for high school and college students in Marin County, California. Stanton is past-president of the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). He consults extensively in service-learning program development and assessment for organizations such as the National Commission on Resources for Youth, The U.S. Department of Education, NSEE, and Campus Compact.
Stanton's research interests focus on student and faculty development related to servicelearning. He authored a survey research report, "Integrating Public Service With Academic Study: The Faculty Role," for Campus Compact. His summary of a two-year study of twelve faculty members' experience with service-learning pedagogy appeared in The Michigan Journal for Community Service. With Dwight Giles and Nadinne Cruz he researched and authored Service- Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999).
Stanton holds a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems from The Fielding Institute.
