Following a national search, the Ford School is delighted to announce the appointment of Sue Johnson as director of development.“Sue is a mission-driven, strategic fundraiser with a passion for building philanthropic relationships,” says Susan M....
The University of Michigan received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the Policies for Action Research Hub at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
The Ford School is one of three...
In a new paper for Brookings, "The Trouble with Student Loans? Low Earnings, Not High Debt," Susan Dynarski debunks the popular notion that more student debt leads to higher student loan default rates.In fact, research shows that default rates are...
The Obama administration has announced plans for a $2 billion initiative to test new approaches to fight poverty in the U.S., citing Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin’s recently published book about Americans living on $2 a day.White House officials say...
A January 12 Washington Post article tackles American attitudes on race and immigration, citing new research from Mara Ostfeld, who is finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ford School and will join the political science faculty in fall...
Susan M. Collins has been elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, one of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks that, along with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, conduct the nation’s monetary...
In a recent interview on Michigan Radio, Alford Young Jr. discusses the lack of faculty diversity in the U.S. with Michigan State professor Django Paris. According to the article, 3.3 percent of University of Michigan faculty members are black,...
Ford School faculty members David Cohen, Susan Dynarski, and Brian Jacob made the 2016 RHSU Edu-Scholar list of the top 200 U.S.-based university scholars, “who are doing the most to influence education policy and practice.”The list, which was...
It’s hardly uncommon for University of Michigan faculty to invite in an outside expert or two to share their perspectives with students in a course. Still, it’s safe to say that Elisabeth Gerber, the Jack L. Walker Professor of Public Policy, has...
A journal article by Barry Rabe, “The Durability of Carbon Cap-and-Trade Policy,” was published in the January 2016 edition of Governance.AbstractThe surge of American states' adoption of policies to mitigate climate change in the late 1990s and...
A majority of Americans (54 percent) want their state to submit an implementation plan to comply with the Clean Power Plan, according to CLOSUP’s latest survey. Another 22 percent would prefer their state not submit a plan and instead allow the...
Alumni who voted in the recent Alumni Board elections chose six of their peers to serve from January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2018. These newly elected board members include:Lily Clark (MPP '06)Assistant Director for Policy and ResearchNational...
A recent Atlantic article, "When the Government Tells Poor People How to Live," profiles A Better Life, an intensive case management program that requires residents of Worcester, Massachusetts’ state-subsidized public housing system to work or...
Susan Dynarski is among the top ten influencers and agitators recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education for shaking up higher ed “in the classroom, on campus, and beyond.”In “Sensible Explainer,” the Chronicle’s Beckie Supiano lauds Dynarski’s...
The Ford School is delighted to announce that the University of Michigan will host the tenth “Graduate Horizons” higher-education preparation program for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian students preparing to apply to graduate...
“While Americans ready their holiday shopping lists, Congress is busy with its own holiday tradition—preparing a grab bag of corporate giveaways known as ‘tax extenders,’” writes Betsey Stevenson for a December 10 Bloomberg View piece. “The gifts,...
In Harnessing the value of ‘failure,’ Brian Jacob describes the high “failure rate” in educational intervention research trials and what can be done to learn more from null results. Jacob’s piece appears in Evidence Speaks, a weekly publication of...
No one really knows when the Ford School put on its first holiday skit-fest, but the tradition goes back at least 23 years. In 1992, IPPS News reported on the latest faculty skit attempt (clearly not the first) with this review:“Jim Levinsohn, Gary...
The fall 2015 issue of State & Hill magazine was mailed to alumni and friends of the Ford School on November 18, 2015.
This edition of the magazine, titled “Motor City Remix,” highlighted stories about some of the work Ford School faculty,...
As the Michigan economy improves, some local leaders are facing the welcome task of deciding how to allocate funds from budget surpluses. A University of Michigan Ford School survey, "Responding to budget surplus vs. deficit: the preferences of...
Policy Talks @ the Ford School
“When Social Security was started, the ratio of retirees to working people was one to 15 or something like that. Over the next five or ten years, we’ll go to one retiree for every two folks working. That clearly...
I had to really drum up interest a decade ago; nobody gave a rip,” says David Thacher of his course, “Thinking about Crime.” These days, there’s a lot more interest in public safety—at the Ford School and elsewhere.
Reflecting those concerns, the...
Marina von Neumann Whitman’s opinion piece, “The House’s cot club and America’s great divide,” was published by the Detroit Free Press on December 4.The piece describes an increasingly common practice among legislators of using their DC offices to...
Matthew Mellon (MPP/MPH ’16), the first Ford School student to receive support from the recently established Margaret E. Weston Endowment for Education Policy, found the perfect internship. He interned for the city with the largest public school...
John DiNardo (AB ’83, MPP ’84) has read J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series in every language he can comprehend—English, Italian, and French—so perhaps it’s not surprising that when DiNardo had to take time off from teaching to be treated for acute...
