| MELISSA STONE HAS BEEN NAMED A 2008 RECIPIENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
 Associate Professor Melissa Stone, director of the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center and area chair for public and nonprofit management, has been named a 2008 recipient of the University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Teaching Award. This prestigious award honors outstanding contributions to post baccalaureate, graduate, and professional education and honorees are inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Stone joins Professor Ragui Assaad, who received this award in 2005, and Associate Professor Deborah Levison, who received this award in 2006.
As a specialist in nonprofit management, Stone has researched the effects of state contracting on United Way agencies, intra- and interorganizational governance, and the politics of planning in nonprofit organizations. She is an associate editor of Nonprofit Management and Leadership and frequently writes on nonprofit management issues for scholarly journals. Stone came to the Humphrey Institute from the Boston University School of Management where she taught management policy and developed core curriculum. She also has served as associate director of the Yale Program on Nonprofit Organizations, supervising budgets and administration of research grants and publications. And she holds a doctorate in organizational behavior from Yale University.
Stone will be honored at an awards ceremony on April 28, 2008, at 3:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall at the McNamara Center. The Distinguished Teaching Awards are sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Senate Committee on Educational Policy, the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, and the University of Minnesota Alumni Association.
March 4, 2008 |
