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The road from transport infrastructure to international trade

Nov 8, 2019

Between mid-April and early August, Kazu Shibuya (MPP ’88) had already made nine trips from Tokyo to Washington D.C. and he was getting ready for his tenth. It is what his role as deputy minister and leading negotiator for the government of Japan...

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An original IPPSter gives back: James Hudak’s gift establishes a named professorship in health policy

Nov 8, 2019

“I want to use my money, not to change my lifestyle, but to change the world,” says James Hudak, MPP ’71. “And I believe that education is the way.” “Most Ford School graduates work in the public sector,” Hudak continues, “and do not make a lot...

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Majoring in making a difference: Marking 10 years since our first BAs graduated

Nov 8, 2019

That first cohort of 58 graduates has been out in the world for a decade now. The degree has led them to a diverse array of careers–on Capitol Hill, in classrooms, at hospitals, at nonprofits, and at law firms. In 2009, the first group of...

BA class of 2009 group photo in front of Rackham

In the Media

What every Michigander needs to know about Canada, Justin Trudeau

Nov 3, 2019 Detroit Free Press

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In the Media

Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States

Nov 1, 2019 War on the Rocks

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News

DEI November Updates

Nov 1, 2019

UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY Promoting an Equitable and Inclusive Climate 2019-2020 DEI Coalition The first meeting of the Ford School DEI Coalition was Friday, October 25. The Coalition reviewed the...

In the Media

Director of Michigan Health and Human Services talks food insecurity and child health

Oct 30, 2019 The Michigan Daily

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In the Media

White House Pressed Car Makers to Join Its Fight Over California Emissions Rules

Oct 30, 2019 The New York Times

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Ford School faculty well represented at annual Awards Dinner

Oct 30, 2019

Five Ford School faculty are among the thirty-six University of Michigan faculty members who will be honored on October 30 at the annual Faculty Awards Dinner, which recognizes notable contributions in the areas of teaching, service and...

Michael S. Barr, Betsey Stevenson, Susan Dynarski, and Paul Courant posed for a group photo

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Michigan leaders worried about possible effects of next recession

Oct 30, 2019

ANN ARBOR—More than half of Michigan’s local government leaders are concerned about the potential impact of the next recession on their jurisdictions’ ability to deliver public services and maintain government operations. Although local leaders...

In the Media

Scholars Address Issues of Mobility in Higher Education

Oct 27, 2019 Diverse Education

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In the Media

Opinion | How a challenge helped us triple student voter turnout at U-M

Oct 25, 2019 Bridge

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In the Media

Michigan Matters: Is Civility In Politics Dead?

Oct 25, 2019 CBS Detroit

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In the Media

Ford School hosts inaugural James B. Hudak Professor of Health Lecture

Oct 24, 2019 The Michigan Daily

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News

Detroit neighborhood businesses blooming after tapping U-M expertise

Oct 24, 2019

Collaborations between Detroit entrepreneurs and U-M faculty, staff, and students are featured in a news story written for the University by Karen Dybis. The Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project (DNEP) pairs Detroit business owners with...

October 2019 Edition of the Ford School feed

Oct 24, 2019

Dear friends: The Ford School’s Weiser Diplomacy Center, a dynamic hub for the study and practice of diplomacy, formally launched this fall with much activity, including an incredible series of visits from an all-star lineup of leaders. Hillary...

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Weiser Diplomacy Center launch series makes a big splash

Oct 23, 2019

The Ford School’s new Weiser Diplomacy Center officially launched this fall with visits from an all-star lineup of leaders in foreign affairs. A lecture by Stephen Biegun, U.S. special representative for North Korea, kicked off the series. In a...

Michael S Barr, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and John Ciorciari walking outside in Ann Arbor

In the Media

Dr. Mark Schlissel: Go Blue Guarantee helps low-income students

Oct 22, 2019 The Detroit News

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State & Hill

Driving Michigan’s auto insurance reform

Oct 22, 2019

After months of studying the cost of auto insurance, Joshua Rivera (MPP ’17) finally had the data he needed to see how much Michiganders spend to keep their vehicles insured. What he found shocked him. "When I saw that 97% of the zip codes...

Governor Whitmer signs auto insurance reform legislation into law

State & Hill

All healthy families are not alike: Christina Cross advances our understanding of dynamics among family structure, inequality, and policy

Oct 22, 2019

By David Pratt A family = Mom + Dad + kid(s). Many researchers and policymakers still treat this as the standard. But Christina Cross (PhD ’19) knows a different reality. One she has lived. Cross, a 2019 graduate of the Ford School’s joint...

Macmillan Learning announces publication date for new Stevenson, Wolfers economics textbooks

Oct 18, 2019

On October 17, 2019 Macmillan Learning announced two textbooks written by acclaimed Ford School economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers will be available for the Fall 2020 semester. The new texts, Principles of Microeconomics and...

Bentley Historical Library and Ford School celebrate U.S. Rep. Sander Levin

Oct 17, 2019

This year, former Congressman Sander Levin donated over 700 boxes of documents to University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library. On October 14, the Ford School co-hosted a celebration of Sander Levin’s contribution and his years of public...

In the Media

Conference to Focus on Inequities in Entrepreneurship

Oct 16, 2019 Duke Today

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State & Hill

The Last Word: Goldberg and Swedish make the case for alumni giving

Oct 15, 2019

The Ford School recently announced a new way for alumni and others to give back: the Ford School Fund for Student Support. As we aim for more alumni donors over the next year—with gifts of any size—State & Hill caught up with Naomi Goldberg (MPP...

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Meet the Masters of Public Affairs

Oct 15, 2019

This fall the Ford School welcomes its first Master of Public Affairs students. This powerful new nine-month degree for mid-career professionals combines rigorous training in the Ford School’s hallmark policy analysis suite with the development of...

In the Media

Michigan’s average student debt rose $10K in a decade. That's had consequences.

Oct 11, 2019 Lansing State Journal

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University of Michigan selected to host Presidential Debate in 2020

Oct 11, 2019

ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan will host a Presidential Debate on Oct. 15, 2020, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced today. The debate, which will take place in the university’s Crisler Center, will be the second in a series of...

Aerial of U-M central campus including Weill Hall

In the Media

Panel talk downfalls of international transitional justice

Oct 10, 2019 The Michigan Daily

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Trump’s revocation of the Clean Air Act’s states’ rights waiver sends a ‘chilling message’, says Rabe

Oct 10, 2019

Last month, President Trump revoked California’s waiver under the 1970 Clean Air Act, stripping California and 13 other states of their authority to set state-level standards on tailpipe emissions. Contrary to typical Republican values favoring...

In the Media

How states’ rights became a liberal environmentalist cause

Oct 9, 2019 The Christian Science Monitor

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