In a July 19 piece for The Conversation, Shobita Parthasarathy encourages research universities and nonprofits to establish “intellectual property governance committees.” These committees--comprised of patent lawyers; ethicists; citizens; and...
The Ford School community gathered in 15 cities around the globe to celebrate the seventh annual Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day. This year's alumni organizers hosted domestic celebrations in Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit,...
In the New York Times, Susan Dynarski lays out the case for states to offer free, and universal, college admission testing.“A child born into a high-income family is six times as likely to earn a college degree as one who is poor,” writes Dynarski,...
Kristin Seefeldt spoke with Michigan Radio’s “Stateside” this Wednesdsay for a new series that explores the lives of America’s working poor, including “who they are, what challenges they face, and what policy changes might help the most people.” In...
This June, the U.S. Department of Labor reported 6 million unfilled job openings--a record-breaking number. Today, Betsey Stevenson offered expert testimony at a Congressional Joint Economic Committee hearing on the topic: "A record six million U.S....
In “Don’t pump more money into politics,” a July 11 op-ed for The Detroit News, former U.S. Congressman and Ford School lecturer Joe Schwarz argues that dark money “is undermining the trust Americans have in our government and hindering our ability...
University of Michigan law professor and incoming Ford School dean Michael Barr has served as co-counsel on a recent amicus brief submitted by leading financial regulation and consumer finance scholars in support of the Consumer Financial Protection...
Michael Barr joined noted DC appellate attorney Deepak Gupta as co-counsel on a June 27 amicus brief, submitted by financial regulation scholars and former government officials who have worked to prevent violent non-state actors from accessing the...
A new article by Amanda R. Carrico, Kaitlin T. Raimi, Heather Barnes Truelove, and Brianne Eby - “Putting your money where your mouth is: an experimental test of pro-environmental spillover from reducing meat consumption to monetary donations” -...
The Ford School’s latest BA yearbook—sent electronically to students, recent graduates, and their families on June 28—celebrates the undergraduate classes of 2017 and 2018.
The yearbook includes messages from many of the faculty members who have...
Scholars from the Ford School's Education Policy Initiative (EPI) and the University of Michigan's School of Education have received a $712,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to continue the University’s postdoctoral training...
In a new Conversation piece, “Is ‘energy dominance’ the right goal for U.S. policy?,” Daniel Raimi explores a catchphrase that has recently made its way from DC to a number of states across the nation: “American energy dominance.”
Raimi describes...
Ford School alumnus Dudley Benoit (MPP ’95) will return to us this fall to serve as the next Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence.
Benoit is an expert on community development financial institutions (CDFI), private...
Yesterday’s bicentennial colloquium on “The Evolving Bargain between Research Universities and Society”--organized by Paul Courant and Sue Alcock as part of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial celebrations--engaged the leaders of nine...
Kaitlin Raimi was interviewed as a featured expert for the Coursera open enrollment course, Act on Climate: Steps to Individual, Community, and Political Action, taught by U-M Professor Michaela Zint. The course focuses on 'how to translate learning...
The Ford School announced today that it has found its first diversity, equity, and inclusion officer: Stephanie Sanders, PhD, who will start her new role on July 31st.
As part of the faculty and staff leadership of the school, Stephanie will...
In the Latin American Advisor, Melvyn Levitsky questions the long-term impact of Uruguay’s decision to legalize marijuana. Uruguay is the first nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana. Next month, Uruguay will begin to permit the sale of...
An opinion piece by Richard L. Hall, “Secrecy not worst part of Senate health care bill process,” appears in today’s Detroit Free Press.In it, Hall argues that lack of transparency is not always a bad thing. “[C]losed doors sometimes make honest...
In “Americans want states to pick up federal climate policy slack,” published by the Brookings Institution’s Fixgov blog, Barry Rabe, Sarah Mills, and Christopher Borick share new data from the National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE),...
Brian Jacob is cited in a new Chalkbeat article, “Beyond the test score race: Five big questions researchers are asking about charter schools.”While many researchers with an interest in charter schools focus on the impact these schools have had on...
Kathryn Dominguez is quoted in a new South China Morning Post story about China’s rising debt levels: “US casting nervous eye at China’s ‘phenomenal’ debt levels, says former Obama pick for the Fed.”
“It’s really quite phenomenal how high the...
Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan, recently announced the “Go Blue Guarantee,” which pledges four years of free tuition for admitted in-state students whose families earn less than $65,000 per year. The program is based, in...
Michael S. Barr will be the new Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, effective Aug. 1. His five-year appointment was approved Thursday by the University of Michigan Board of Regents.
Barr is...
ANN ARBOR—Statewide, 70 percent of Michigan's local government officials believe the state government is taking too much decision-making authority away from local governments, according to a new survey by University of Michigan researchers.The data...
Michael S. Barr will be the new Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, effective Aug. 1. His five-year appointment was approved Thursday by the Board of Regents.
Barr is the Roy F. and Jean...
