Stanford Facts 2008
University Governance
Stanford University is a trust with corporate powers under the laws of the State of California. The university is a tax-exempt entity under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Under the provisions of the Founding Grant, the Board of Trustees (with a maximum membership of 35) is custodian of the endowment and all the properties of Stanford University. The board administers the invested funds, sets the annual budget and determines policies for operation and control of the university. Among the powers given to the trustees by the Founding Grant is the power to appoint a president. The board delegates broad authority to the president to operate the university and to the faculty on certain academic matters. The formal legal name is “The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.”
The Stanford Hospital and Clinics and the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford are nonprofit California corporations. They are separate from the university and from one another.
Accreditation
Stanford University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Board of Trustees (as of May 2008)
- William M. Barnum, Jr., General Partner, Brentwood Associates, Los Angeles, CA
- Robert M. Bass, President, Keystone Group LP, Fort Worth, TX
- Mariann Byerwalter, Chairman, JDN Corporate Advisory, LLC, Daly City, CA
- James E. Canales, President and CEO, The James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, CA
- James G. Coulter, Founding Partner, TPG Capital, LP, San Francisco, CA
- Mary B. Cranston, Firm Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, San Francisco, CA
- Lauren B. Dachs, President, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, San Francisco, CA
- Steven A. Denning, Chairman, General Atlantic LLC, Greenwich, CT
- Bruce W. Dunlevie, General Partner, Benchmark Capital, Menlo Park, CA
- Ying-Ying Goh, UCLA Clinical Scholars Program, Los Angeles, CA
- John A. Gunn, Chief Executive Officer, Dodge and Cox, San Francisco, CA
- John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Pete Higgins, Partner, Second Avenue Partners, Seattle, WA
- Leslie P. Hume, San Francisco, CA
- Ann H. Lamont, Managing Partner, Oak Investment Partners, Westport, CT
- John P. Levin, Founder and Senior Counsel, Folger Levin & Kahn, LLP, San Francisco, CA
- Goodwin Liu, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- Burton J. McMurtry, Menlo Park, CA
- Hamid R. Moghadam, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AMB Property Corporation, San Francisco, CA
- Wendy Munger, South Pasadena, CA
- Ellen Ochoa, Deputy Director, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
- Miriam Rivera, Attorney, Palo Alto, CA
- Richard A. Sapp, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
- Philip G. Satre, Chairman of the Board, Retired, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., Reno, NV
- John H. Scully, Managing Director, SPO Partners & Co., Mill Valley, CA
- Isaac Stein, President, Waverley Associates, Menlo Park, CA
- Thomas F. Steyer, Senior Managing Member, Farallon Capital Management, LLC, San Francisco, CA
- Ross H. Walker, Partner, Real Estate Development & Acquisitions, Wolff Urban Development, Los Angeles, CA
- W. Richard West, Jr., Washington, DC
- Vaughn C. Williams, Partner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York, NY
- Jerry Yang, CEO and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Stanford Administration
- John Hennessy, President
- John Etchemendy, Provost
- David Demarest, Vice President for Public Affairs
- Randall S. Livingston, Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer
- Robert Reidy, Vice President for Land, Buildings and Real Estate
- Martin Shell, Vice President for Development
- Howard Wolf, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and President, Stanford Alumni Association
- Debra Zumwalt, Vice President and General Counsel
Cabinet
- Ann Arvin , Vice Provost and Dean of Research
- John Bravman, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
- Persis Drell, Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Patricia Gumport, Vice Provost, Graduate Education
- Robert Joss, Dean, Graduate School of Business
- Larry Kramer, Dean, School of Law
- Pamela Matson, Dean, School of Earth Sciences
- Philip Pizzo, Dean, School of Medicine
- James Plummer, Dean, School of Engineering
- John Raisian, Director, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
- Richard Saller, Dean, School of Humanities and Sciences
- Deborah Stipek, Dean, School of Education
Staff
In 2007, 9,821 staff members supported teaching, learning and research at Stanford, including 4,606 managerial and professional staff, 2,900 clerical and technical staff, and 726 service and maintenance staff. There are 1,589 employees at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. For more information about working at Stanford, visit http://jobs.stanford.edu.