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October 2020: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Ford School

Oct 1, 2020

Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School Diversifying what and how we teach Based on a generous gift from Hal and Carol Kohn and the Kohn Charitable Trust, the Ford School will establish...

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U-M survey finds strong interest among Michigan communities in sustainability and energy collaborations

Sep 30, 2020

Few local governments in Michigan report collaborating with another community on energy and sustainability issues, but nearly half expressed interest in teaming up with others to pursue opportunities, according to survey results released today by...

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Master’s applications are now open for fall 2021

Sep 30, 2020

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has opened applications for fall 2021 for our top-ranked graduate programs: Master of Public Policy (MPP) and Master of Public Affairs (MPA). The Ford School community is engaged in public policy at a...

Weill Hall entrance with "Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy" etched into the glass

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Ford School students help local townships navigate and adapt during pandemic

Sep 29, 2020

Four teams of undergraduate and graduate Ford School students embarked on research and engagement projects this past summer to help the Michigan Township Association (MTA) better understand the state of affairs for local townships and the challenges...

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Rabe: A conservative Supreme Court could diminish unilateral executive action on environmental policy

Sep 28, 2020

"Even if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the White House," said Rabe, "the high court’s new makeup would set up a questionable future for aggressive Biden administration environmental policies. I think it likely dials back ambition for any...

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Young voters expected to close participation gap with older voters, says Goldenberg

Sep 28, 2020 Bridge Michigan

“While it’s true that [young people] still lagged the voting rates of older voters in 2018, they closed the gap some, and I expect that they’re going to close the gap even more this time,” said Goldenberg. Read the full Bridge Michigan article...

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Axelrod's game theory experiment offers Biden & Democrats a Supreme Court strategy

Sep 27, 2020 Newsweek

"The salvation for the Court—for both conservatives and liberals in the long run will not be this or that justice, or even the chief justice who at least for a few more weeks will be the ideologically swing justice. Instead, look to Anatol Rapoport...

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Surveillance in virtual classrooms exacerbates technological racism, increases student anxiety

Sep 25, 2020 WUOT

“These kinds of technologies tend to disproportionately burden students of color who are already often assumed to be somehow deviant... and so these technologies tend to exacerbate that kind of racism by rendering it quantitative and technological...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

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New U-M report lifts up Detroit residents' priorities for economic mobility

Sep 25, 2020

A new report from the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions lifts up more than a decade's worth of input from Detroit residents on how to increase economic mobility and decrease poverty in their city. The community-based research project,...

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Stevenson: New COVID-19 recession upsets gains from Great Recession recovery

Sep 24, 2020 NPR Marketplace

“There is no clear change in the trajectory or path of the economy when Trump becomes president in 2016. We see an economy that started recovering in 2010 and just kept going for an extremely long period of time," said Stevenson. Read Professor...

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Rabe discusses how Democratic governors tackle climate policy

Sep 24, 2020 Environment & Energy News

“We’re in a window where a lot of Democratic governors are trying to do something related to climate, and if the executive order approach is their only route, carbon neutrality is a kind of popular step,” said Rabe. Read the full E&E News...

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Davenport highlights "compassion fatigue" as support for racial injustice protests declines

Sep 24, 2020 Associated Press News

Christian Davenport said the nation has historically seen public support wane among white Americans for social justice movements — what he calls “compassion fatigue.” “When this was all about the video and the visceral response to seeing...

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Ciorciari comments on winding down of Khmer Rouge Tribunals

Sep 24, 2020 La Prensa Latina

"I think it is quite likely that the [remaining] cases will be dismissed. With little prospect of those cases advancing... and after years of mounting donor frustration and fatigue, it is doubtful that the tribunal will be open much longer," said...

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Employer Resource Networks hold promise to increase retention and improve productivity of entry-level workers - Shaefer

Sep 24, 2020

Employer Resource Networks (ERNs) involve local networks of employers collectively providing work support services to their entry-level workforce. In a paper published for the American Enterprise Institute, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of...

Luke Shaefer delivers a talk at the Ford School

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Rabe: Linking climate to infrastructure and job creation requires a plan

Sep 23, 2020 Roll Call

“On one hand, in terms of initial public perception, [linking climate change to infrastructure] can be attractive because you’re allowing each citizen to paint with their imagination what it will be like,” Rabe said. But the challenge, he added,...

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College tuition announced for Michigan’s frontline workers, with help from Youth Policy Lab fellow

Sep 23, 2020

The state of Michigan is offering free college tuition for frontline workers in a unique program inspired by the G.I. Bill that provided college education to those serving their country after WWII. Futures For Frontliners , first announced in April...

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Thacher’s study sheds light on emerging model to improve policing

Sep 23, 2020

Ford School professor David Thacher’s new study, “The Learning Model of Use-of-Force Reviews,” examines how common use-of-force incident reviews can be used as a learning tool for policing. Use of force criteria and practice have been a hotly...

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Weiser Diplomacy Center participates in U.S. State Department Diplomacy Lab program for aspiring diplomats

Sep 23, 2020

Disinformation in sub-Saharan Africa, money laundering in the Western Hemisphere, space diplomacy, China’s domestic drug problem and international hostage negotiation are real-world issues that students will explore as the Ford School’s Weiser...

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Parthasarathy’s report shows innovation policy ignores marginalized communities

Sep 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed policymaking biases that have ignored poor and marginalized communities, argues Ford school professor Shobita Parthasarathy. In a paper, Innovation Policy, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19, published in the...

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Rabe says climate concerns matter in 2020 vote

Sep 22, 2020 Environment & Energy News

"In ways that we haven't seen before, the climate and environment issues never really go away. It keeps resurfacing in ways that are relatively unique to the last 20 years or so," Rabe told E&E News. Read the full Environment & Energy News...

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Levitsky: Trouble is brewing in Putin's 2020 Russia

Sep 22, 2020 U.S. News & World Report

"A country that tries to control its population without having all the means of control, where the economic situation is not so good, where dependency on oil and natural gas is certainly coming down, particularly during this period of time,"...

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Green: City governments more skeptical of tech tool promises

Sep 21, 2020 Wired

“People in city government are much less wowed by the promises of shiny tech tools than they used to be,” says Ben Green. He attributes that to growing distrust of large tech companies, and smart city projects that have underwhelmed or imploded,...

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Goldenberg: Satellite clerk's office at UMMA a game changer for student voter turnout

Sep 21, 2020 ClickOnDetroit

“I think that this is a real game-changer,” said Goldenberg in a statement. “The office will essentially create a one-stop shop where students can register or update their addresses, pick up an absentee ballot, fill it out and then turn it...

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Michael Barr joins Kresge Foundation Board

Sep 21, 2020

Ford School Dean Michael Barr has been appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of The Kresge Foundation. The Foundation was founded in 1924 to promote human progress and today fulfills that mission by building and strengthening pathways to...

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Hanson speaks on QAnon conspiracies

Sep 18, 2020 CNN Brasil

"People who are attracted to conspiracy theories tend to be people who are feeling anxious about the world, who feel a lot of uncertainty and are looking for explanations to help them find meaning in a scenario where they feel they have lost...

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CLOSUP survey shows low and slipping confidence in accuracy of Michigan's 2020 Census

Sep 18, 2020 Bridge Michigan

Only five percent of local officials in Michigan surveyed have expressed strong confidence in the Census’ completeness or accuracy, according to the Spring 2020 Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), which is conducted annually by the Center for...

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Stevenson discusses rising permanent unemployment and smart investments on BBC

Sep 18, 2020 BBC World Service

“Permanent unemployment is much harder to solve... It's going to be a long slog getting folks back to work and it's not clear that we're going to get the kind of support from the government that we need, but I do think that policy can mitigate some...

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Goldenberg turns up the student absentee vote

Sep 18, 2020 WEMU

"I hope that our students are going to be taking these messages [about voting] home and helping their families and their friends, whether they are students of ours or not, to take the steps that they need [to vote absentee]," said...

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Celeste Watkins-Hayes receives dual recognition from U-M Regents

Sep 17, 2020

Today the University of Michigan Regents approved the appointment of professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes as the Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy for a five-year renewable term. The Fairfax Collegiate Professorship was established...

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Kohn gift establishes two new social policy professorships at the Ford School

Sep 17, 2020

The Karl and Martha Kohn Professorship of Social Policy will advance societal equity and inclusion in the United States. The Arlene Susan Kohn Professorship of Social Policy will address the rights of the disabled in the United States. With a $5...

Karl Kohn, Martha Kohn, and Arlene Susan Kohn

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