Ford School Fall Launch 2025 | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: School event

Ford School Fall Launch 2025

Speaker

Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Date & time

Aug 28, 2025, 11:30 am-1:00 pm EDT

Location

Students at the Fall Launch 2024

Students, faculty, and staff: Join Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes and the entire Ford School community in celebrating the beginning of the year and welcoming both old and new faces to Weill Hall.

Food and festivities kick off at 11:30 am in the courtyard, with remarks by the dean at 12pm

Headshot of Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Faculty Expert

Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes

Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy; Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Sociology
Watkins-Hayes is an internationally recognized scholar and expert widely credited for her research at the intersection of inequality, public policy, and human service institutions, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS; poverty; and race, class, and gender studies. Dr. Watkins-Hayes has published three books, numerous journal and edited volume articles, and pieces in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Chicago Magazine.