In 2010, Carl Simon and George Kaplan received funding from the National Institutes of Health to build an interdisciplinary network of scientists to look at a very important problem, socioeconomic health disparities, viewed as a complex system. “We...
The David Bohnett Foundation Leadership and Public Service Fellowship, launched in 2010 with a gift from the foundation of U-M alumnus David Bohnett (MBA ’80), is a competitive award that enables Ford School students to apply their policy training...
In “The RNC wants to make student loans competitive again. They never were,” Susan Dynarski provides detailed context on one plank of the newly released Republican platform, which pushes to get the federal government out of the student loan...
Former U.S. Congressman Dr. John J.H. “Joe” Schwarz (R-MI), a longtime lecturer in public policy at the Ford School, is featured in a nine-part oral history produced by the Michigan Political History Society.Other Michigan political leaders featured...
This internship field report is submitted by Talha Mirza (BA '18), who interned with the Canadian Federal House of Commons (Canadian Parliament) in Ottawa. Review more internship field reports from Ford School students serving organizations around...
Maureen (Molly) Welch-Marahar (MPP '17) submits this internship field report from her summer 2016 service with Breast Cancer Action in San Francisco, California. I’m one month into my 10 weeks here at Breast Cancer Action and I already feel at home....
Eduardo García (MPP '17) offers this field report from Santiago, Chile where he’s working at the intersection of labor, migration, and human rights issues with the International Labor Organization’s Country Office for the South Cone of Latin...
Megan Tompkins-Stange spoke with Inside Higher Education about her new book, Policy Patrons (Harvard Education Press 2016), which explores how large foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are working to shape educational...
The latest Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), published by the Ford School's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), finds that local leaders are less optimistic about the state’s direction.Statewide, only 44 percent of local leaders...
“So, let’s start with poverty,” says Ezra Klein, editor of Vox, launching a 40-minute interview with Hillary Clinton. “Scholars have estimated that the number of American families living in extreme poverty, under $2 in cash income, has skyrocketed...
More than 200 Ford School students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends gathered in cities around the globe on July 14 to celebrate the school's sixth annual Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day.
Spirit Day celebrations were organized in 10 U.S....
A few years back, Ford School alumnus Cassie Brown (MPP ’14) and an interdisciplinary team of Dow Sustainability Fellows worked with the City of Ann Arbor to establish a $40,000 Clean Energy Revolving Loan Fund for landlords and renters seeking to...
Seven million borrowers in America are in default on their student loans. In “America can fix its student loan crisis. Just ask Australia,” Susan Dynarski describes the lessons American policymakers can take from other countries.Dynarski, who...
University of Michigan alum Reid Wilson was selected as the first Detroit Data Fellow and will spend the next two years analyzing Detroit Police Department data to help understand crime patterns in real time.
Wilson, who earned a master's...
In a July 5 Detroit Free Press op-ed, Marina v.N. Whitman asks, “In Brexit debacle, who will lead from the edge of inside?”“On the same morning that we woke up to learn that British voters had set their country on a path of divorce from the European...
Photo by Kiyo / Flickr.com / CC BY-NC 2.0One of the core functions of Michigan’s local governments is ensuring public safety. As such, the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) focused its latest Michigan Public Policy...
“It’s hard to know whom you can trust anymore—at least that’s the attitude of many Americans today. Therein lies a crucial challenge for the world’s largest economy,” writes Betsey Stevenson in “Want to Help the Economy? Learn to Trust,” published...
Katherine Michelmore and Susan Dynarski have written a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper on “The gap within the gap: Using longitudinal data to understand income differences in student achievement," released in July...
David Thacher spoke with Sarah Childress of PBS Frontline about “The problem with “broken windows” policing.”The piece, which explores what we know, and don’t know, about the effectiveness of broken windows policing, aired on June 28.Just what is...
Students in Gretchen Whitmer’s winter 2016 seminar on “Running, Serving, and Leading” interviewed a number of thought leaders about policy issues important to Michiganders.
These student podcasts (click on the links below to hear the audio files)...
Caption: Michigan State Capitol BuildingCredit: Photo by Matt Katzenberger, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) is offering a new undergraduate course for students looking for opportunities to work with survey...
The Washington Post’s “Wonkblog” cites Dean Yang’s work in “The people who will suffer the most severe impact of Brexit don’t live in the U.K.” The article, by Max Ehrenfreund, was published on Saturday, June 25.“Immigrants working in Britain send...
A research letter on "Changes in insurance coverage among hospitalized nonelderly adults after Medicaid expansion in Michigan," by Matthew Davis, Achamyeleh Gebremariam, and John Ayanian, was published in the June 21 edition of the Journal of the...
East Tawas, MI Fire DepartmentPhoto by George Thomas / Flickr.com/ CC by NC-ND 2.0CLOSUP’s latest policy report, released today, examines Michigan local government leaders’ opinions on fire protection services in their communities, including...
Roughly 100 guests—including policymakers, practitioners, and members of the press—attended “Restructuring student loans: Lessons from abroad,” a conference organized by Susan Dynarski, co-founder and co-director of the Ford School’s Education...
As a dual degree student with SNRE [the School of Natural Resources and Environment] and Ford, I am interested in pursuing a career in international development within the context of climate change as a complex environmental, social, and political...
For the Milken Institute Review, Susan Dynarski explains, “How to—and how not to—manage student debt.”“If you even casually follow the news, you’ve probably heard that Americans owe a record $1.3 trillion in student loans,” writes Dynarski. Seven...
