William T. Coleman Jr., appointed by President Ford to lead the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1975 - 1977, died on March 31, 2017. He was a prominent lawyer, a moderate Republican, a lifelong champion of Civil Rights, the first black man to...
In the first days of Donald J. Trump's presidency, journalists from across the world called Marina Whitman. They wanted to discuss the implications of Trump's meetings with auto executives. They wanted to understand how Trump's proposed tariff on...
Rachel Baker (University of California, Irvine), Eric Bettinger (Stanford University), Brian Jacob, and Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago) co-authored a working paper, "The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students' Major...
Philanthropic foundations. To many, they're organizations that deserve only reverence—founded and funded by ethical actors, managed by honest brokers, and characterized by selfless acts. But to Megan Tompkins-Stange, who teaches courses in public...
In 1773, colonial resisters protested the British tea act. In 1911, industrial workers demanded safer factory conditions. In 1913, U.S. women petitioned for the right to vote. In 1963, African Americans claimed equal rights and protections under the...
It's been eight years since the Ford School launched the Michigan Public Policy Survey, which collects data and opinions about a broad range of state and local policy challenges from local government leaders across the state. After 16 surveys, 60...
Economist Marina v.N. Whitman is interviewed by Cynthia Canty, host of Michigan Radio's "Stateside" program, for a ten-minute segment on President Trump's proposed budget and the troubling outlook for public goods in America. The segment, "Nixon...
Ford School faculty members often engage in collective problem-solving--with other scholars, of course, but also with policymakers and practitioners all around the world.
The goal of these collaborations? Finding better solutions, and mutually...
"I'm Susan Collins, the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy."
It's been ten years since Susan M. Collins joined the Ford School as "the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy," a phrase she has repeated, with no small amount of...
In 2016, the UN Refugee Agency reported 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around the world, including 21.3 million refugees. That's the highest rate of forcible displacement since the agency began tracking the metric 65 years...
President Donald Trump is moving ahead with efforts to overhaul or replace the historic 2010 Dodd-Frank Act—a signature promise of his 2016 campaign. Meanwhile, a case is making its way through the federal courts in which plaintiffs challenge the...
April 21, 2017Dear Community:As the semester winds down, I write with great enthusiasm to provide an update on Year One of the Ford School’s five-year Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.As a school community--and indeed as a...
Doctoral students Eitan Paul and Jieun Lee (MPP ’12) have been named inaugural recipients of the International Policy Center's (IPC) Research Scholar Award.IPC Research Scholar Awards aim to facilitate cutting-edge scholarship and to help doctoral...
On March 24th, 1965 at 8:00PM, about 3,500 faculty and students at the University of Michigan launched the first ever “teach in,” despite bomb threats and condemnation by the Michigan state legislature and Governor George Romney. For twelve hours,...
Luke Shaefer's article, co-authored with David Harris, “Fighting child poverty with a universal child allowance,” is featured in the spring 2017 edition of The American Prospect magazine.
“Most developed countries provide cash to families with...
Betsey Stevenson’s latest column for Bloomberg View suggests looking to the tax code to cut wasteful spending, rather than cutting programs like environmental protection and support for science and the arts.
The April 20 article, “Where Trump...
Marina v. N. Whitman advocates for the Trump administration to invest in public goods in her April 18 article for The Conversation: “‘Public Goods’ made America great and can do so again.”Public goods include a nation's existing natural resources,...
On Wednesday, April 12th, graduate students from U-M’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy presented their research on two timely and challenging global policy problems: how to restart an economy after a financial crisis, and how to integrate...
The Ford School welcomed its 2016 PPIA fellows and celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Public Policy and International Affairs program this summer. The 18 fellows spent an intensive seven weeks at the Ford School preparing for graduate school and...
A key pillar of the Ford School’s recently released Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) is to build on the longstanding success of faculty research and policy engagement in this space. Here’s a quick snapshot of just a few of...
Last year, the Ford School developed new undergraduate and graduate student recruitment procedures--objectives that were outlined in the school's five-year plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I).
The goal of the expanded recruitment...
Wrapping up the year for Public Policy seniors was U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.) and distinguished professors of the University of Michigan to deliver what is traditionally called the Last Lecture.The event, as part of the third annual Public...
As Congress and the Trump Administration prepare to revisit U.S. immigration policy, 1,470 economists—including Susan M. Collins, dean of the Ford School—have signed an open letter to state and federal leaders describing the broad economic value of...
Nadine Jawad (BA ’18) has been selected as a 2017 Truman Scholar by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.Created by Congress in 1975, the foundation's mission is to identify and support the next generation of public service leaders. The Truman...
On April 10, the Ford School hosted Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, for a conversation with Susan M. Collins, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy.
Some 1,000 guests attended the talk, which filled Rackham Auditorium, and...
Justin Wolfers’ April 7 column for The New York Times "Upshot" argues: “The economy may be stuck in a near-zero world.”
Wolfers cites a new study claiming near-zero interest rates will become commonplace in the United States, impeding the Federal...
