On March 16, the International Policy Center hosted distinguished guests from the United States and China for a research workshop entitled “China’s Impact in the International Development Arena.” The workshop series is a new initiative at the...
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan continues to be recognized nationally as a top graduate program in public affairs, according to the latest U.S News & World Report rankings.
In overall rankings for public...
A March 5 article by Safiya Merchant in The University Record, “#SocialScholars: Professors show power of public engagement,” highlights the growing use of social media among University of Michigan professors.
Merchant writes that social media...
In the last midterm election, just 14 percent of students at the University of Michigan cast a ballot.
The shockingly low figure “was a wake-up call,” Edie Goldenberg tells Farah Stockman in the March 3 New York Times article: “How college...
Two outstanding scholars will join the Ford School this fall as assistant professors, both with expertise in international development.
Yusuf Neggers is a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He...
In a recent op-ed published in American Banker, Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr says the U.S. Senate’s new relief bill is a giveaway for large banks and weakens consumer protections.The bill is the first re-write of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, of...
An article by Richard Hall and Peter Jacobson (University of Michigan) in the March edition of Health Affairs reports on "Examining whether the health-in-all-policies approach promotes health equity."
Hall participated in a briefing about the new...
Susan Dynarski was interviewed by Jeremy Hobson of NPR’s Here and Now for the February 27 segment: “Has student loan debt reached a crisis point?”For a “substantial minority” of student loan borrowers, Dynarksi tells Hobson, “there is a crisis.” She...
The 2018 book The Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research includes a piece by Sarah Mills entitled: "Wind energy and rural community sustainability."
Abstract
Because it is a carbon-free source of electricity, wind energy is...
In her latest piece for the Brookings Institution, Susan Dynarski writes on the benefits of providing universal SAT and ACT testing, arguing their usefulness towards detecting academically talented students who typically “fall off the path to...
On an oddly mild winter day in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Judith Arnold (MPP ‘83) stood beside the podium at the front of Paula Lantz’s Ford School course on social disparities in health. There, the school presented Arnold with the Neil Staebler Award for...
Stuart Russell and Nadiya Kostyuk co-authored a February 14 piece for the Lawfare Blog: “Evaluating the U.K.’s ‘Active Cyber Defence’ program.”
Kostyuk is a doctoral candidate in the Ford School’s public policy and political science joint PhD...
Time is running out on the decades-old tradition of beginning classes well after the designated start time.So-called "Michigan time" — the practice of starting classes, meetings and events 10 minutes after the designated start time to allow for...
Washington, DC is the heartland of sorts for much of American public policy, which is one reason why Ford School alumni flock to the area after graduation. For current students, that means an extensive alumni network to approach for career...
Reynolds Farley has contributed a chapter entitled “Detroit: The emergence, decline and possible revitalization of a great city” for the August 2017 book A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for...
A week after U-M’s MLK Symposium recognizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work, the Rackham graduate school hosted five student speakers in a TED-style presentation called “King Talks.”In its inaugural year, King Talks followed the...
Paula Lantz, associate dean for academic affairs at the Ford School and a professor of public policy and health management policy at the University of Michigan, is one of 52 distinguished social insurance experts elected to the National Academy of...
Earlier this week, Marina v.N. Whitman’s work was published by The Conversation, an independent not-for-profit media company.Her op-ed, “Corporate America needs to get back to thinking about more than just profits,” discussed the importance of big...
Grand Rapids business and community leaders Mike and Sue Jandernoa are intensifying their efforts to improve the mathematics proficiency of Michigan schoolchildren through a partnership with the University of Michigan.Their $4.3 million gift will...
From 2013-2016, Daniel Raimi traveled to every major oil and gas producing region of the United States to investigate the local impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
The stories he gathered from those trips were the beginnings of Raimi’s...
The Student Veterans of America at the University of Michigan (SVAUM) awarded John J.H. “Joe” Schwarz their Lifetime Achievement Award at their 10th Anniversary Benefit Dinner on January 26.
Schwarz is a U.S. Navy veteran and from 2007-2010...
Valentina Duque (University of Michigan), Natasha Pilkauskas, and Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University) published a February 1 paper in PLoS ONE: "Assets among low-income families in the Great Recession."
Abstract
This paper examines the...
Susan Dynarski was interviewed by Cynthia Canty of Michigan Radio’s “Stateside” program for the recent on-air segment: “Australia, England offer clues on how to fix America’s student loan mess.”
“We don’t have much of a safety net in our...
