The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is excited to announce the addition of Charlotte Cavaille to the faculty as an assistant professor this coming fall. Cavaille is currently an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Service at...
Our top-notch associate leadership team remains in place, with Paula Lantz continuing on as associate dean for academic affairs, Elisabeth Gerber continuing as the school’s associate dean for research and policy engagement, and Ann Lin continuing to...
Earlier this afternoon, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved several key faculty appointments at the Ford School, as we continue to grow and strengthen our outstanding faculty.Shobita Parthasarathy has earned a promotion to professor...
The Ford School is delighted to announce that Tamar Mitts and Fabiana Silva will join us as assistant professors this fall.Tamar MittsTamar Mitts will earn her PhD in political science from Columbia University in May. She specializes in comparative...
Introducing a new multimedia feature from the Ford School—short video clips presenting our faculty discussing their recent research and policy activities. Our faculty are an interdisciplinary group who take seriously the implications of their work...
This annual forum brings together Ford School economists for a discussion of the current state of the U.S. economy. From inflation to the labor market, faculty experts reflect on the most crucial issues facing the American economy, and the top-of-mind issues for its citizens.
Friday, October 4, 2019
All activities on Friday, October 4 are free to attend and will take place at Weill Hall, 735 S. State Street. Registration is required. Reunion registration closes on September 20 and some events have earlier registration...
Taught by Katherine (Kat) Walsh, director of student engagement and director of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, U-M Office of University Development (OUD).
**This course can be taken either as a continuation of Professor Thacher’s section of 586 in the first half of the semester, or as a stand-alone half semester course.**
This course teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy writing.
What are smart cities? What makes them smart? Are they equitable and accessible? The aim of this hands-on applied policy course is to introduce students to smart cities and the rapidly evolving mobility ecosystem.
This course teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy writing.
This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates.
This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of fields.