
This year, in partnership with the Program on Human Rights, we launch our new Human Rights Fellowship program. Offered to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors, it is our hope that these fellowships will encourage students to build human rights work into their future careers, whether those careers are in academic life, in governmental or intergovernmental organizations, as activists, or as legal practitioners. Application deadline: Jan 15, 2010. Read more.
February 2010
On February 4, Dr. David Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, addressed the issue of obesity in America and claimed that American will solve its obesity problem when eating junk food becomes as socially unacceptable as smoking cigarettes. "...we need to get seven-year-olds to say to their parents, 'Please don't take me to McDonalds.'" Read the Palo Alto Weekly's review of the talk.
January/February 2010
In the January/February issue of Stanford's alumni magazine, Debra Satz discusses the rewards of teaching ethics. Read the article.
January 2010
Debra Satz was named Senior Class Day Speaker by the graduating class of 2010. Read the announcement.
January 2010
The New York Times ran an interesting article on Teach For America that reports on the findings that TFA corps members, after their two years of teaching, score lower on civic engagement measures than applicants to TFA who were accepted but did not matriculate or than corps members who were accepted but dropped out before completing two years of teaching. In the article, Rob Reich discusses the types of students that are attracted to TFA. Read the article.
December 2009
The IRS has approved more than 50,000 organizations for every year of the past decade, leading to a massive growth in the nonprofit sector. What kinds of organizations are most often approved? How strict or lax is the approval process? Rob Reich, along with two undergraduate students (Lacey Dorn and Stefanie Sutton), released a new report that examines the approval of nonprofit status by the IRS. The report, "Anything Goes: Approval of Nonprofit Status by the IRS", was recently mentioned in the New York Times. Read the article.
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Your gift will support a range of activities including:
Human Rights Fellowship for Undergraduates (international and domestic)
These fellowships enable students to make a valuable contribution to human rights theory and practice and to help students build human rights work into their future careers.
Our award winnng Hope House Scholars Program
This program pairs faculty with undergraduates who then serve as TAs for courses that are taught to local, recovering addicts.
Ethics of Food and the Environment
This series brings together scholars, students, farmers, environmentalists and the general public to think about the consequnces of our individual food choices and to consider the role of institutions in managing resources, averting famines, and addressing inequities.
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