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Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes on our community's impact on the public good, fall events, and more.
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Brad DeLong, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, with Ford School economists Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers, and Josh Hausman, discussed the labor market, inflation, and healthcare costs, and what that means for the 2024 election.
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The Ford School officially released a new five-year strategic plan for diversity, equity and inclusion that was crafted with insights from students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
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Read about your alumni board candidates and then vote through the link sent to your inbox on Nov. 1. More »
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The powerful one-year degree program is designed for seasoned professionals with at least five years of policy-relevant experience in the U.S. or abroad. More »
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Read about two MPP summer internship experiences: with Governor Whitmer's Office and the Washtenaw County Commissioner. More »
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After meeting at the Education Policy Initiative's causal inference seminar, Meghan Oster (PhD ‘21) and Kristen Cummings (IES predoctoral fellow) collaborated on research to enhance scholarship access for students in rural Iowa. More »
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Bridget Corwin (MPP/SEAS '25) worked with Traverse City's municipal utility to increase residential participation in energy efficiency programs as a Catalyst Leadership Circle Fellow. More »
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo in conversation with Betsey Stevenson. The event covered foreign trade, gender inequalities in the job market, the CHIPS and Science Act, and more. Watch »
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CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper joined Wallace House Director Lynette Clemetson for the 2023 Democracy in Crisis event. Watch »
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Charlotte Cavaillé's new book, Fair Enough?: Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality (Cambridge University Press), introduces a framework that considers fairness reasoning—and unlocks new insights into attitudes toward redistributive social policies. More »
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Beginning in January 2024, every pregnant person in Flint will receive cash payments through Rx Kids, the first city-wide experiment of its kind—launched by Luke Shaefer's Poverty Solutions, Michigan State University-Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, and the Greater Flint Health Coalition. More »
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Robert Axelrod recounts the difficulties and rewards of interdisciplinary collaboration—from adventures in the Middle East, to Kazakhstan, and China—in his new autobiography, A Passion for Cooperation: Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist (University of Michigan Press). More »
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David Thacher finds that the local experimentation that led to New York's use of summons in the 1900s is an important model for modern-day police reform in the Journal of Criminal Justice. More »
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Kevin Stange returns from an academic-in-residence assignment with the U.S. Department of Education where he analyzed a new student loan repayment program and helped develop college accountability regulations. More »
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Analysis by Earl Lewis and U-M Center for Social Solutions researchers Julie Arbit and Brad Bottoms, showed a growing threat to climate havens—and widening national racial and economic inequities in PBS Newshour. More »
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Hero of the game
The Ford School's Joe Schwarz was hailed as the "Hero of the Game" during Michigan's homecoming football game against Rutgers on September 23. Schwarz was recognized as a community hero for his years of service in the U.S. Navy.
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