Professor Tompkins-Stange will discuss the impact of current philanthropic efforts on public education at the K-12 and college/university levels.

Megan Tompkins-Stange has taught at the Ford School since 2011. Her research and teaching interests center on the influence of private sector and philanthropic actors within the nonprofit sector, particularly the focus on the role of private philanthropic foundations in the field of public education. Other projects examine how foundations manage advocacy-related activities in the context of legal regulations, and how funders played a central role in the creation and diffusion of management organizations within the charter school movement in the U.S.