Debra Satz and Rob Reich named Roland Prize winners

BY KATE CHESLEY

Debra Satz and Rob Reich, who founded the Hope House Scholars Program, will share this year's Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, given by the Haas Center for Public Service to faculty who make significant contributions through public service and encourage their students to do the same.

Hope House, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, pairs faculty members with undergraduate teaching assistants who offer liberal arts courses to residents of a drug and alcohol treatment facility for women in Redwood City. The courses, which focus on such themes as ethics, social justice and moral responsibility, engage the women of Hope House in college-level work as part of their recovery. Administered by Joan Berry, the associate director of the Center on Ethics in Society, the program won a Community Partnership Award last year.

Stanford Provost John Etchemendy will present the prizes to Satz and Reich at a ceremony May 5 that also will feature the presentation of the 2010 Community Partnership Awards by David Demarest, vice president for public affairs. Those awards will go to Industry Initiatives for Science & Math Education, the Graduate School of Business' Alumni Consulting Team and Shelter Network.