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In the Media

The decline and fall of grade deflation

Jan 12, 2020 The Daily Princetonian

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In the Media

Implications of Soleimani’s death: U-M experts can discuss

Jan 10, 2020 Michigan News

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In the Media

Local companies to Trump, Congress: Get trade deals done, remove tariffs

Jan 10, 2020 Cincinnati Business Courier

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Dean Barr Highlights 2020 Debate Activities in Michigan Alumnus Magazine

Jan 10, 2020

Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr’s guest column in the most recent Michigan Alumnus Magazine highlights activities related to the upcoming 2020 presidential debate at the University of Michigan. This includes the Ford School’s Weiser Diplomacy...

January 2020 DEI Updates

Jan 10, 2020

UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY Focus on our goal: Promoting an Equitable and Inclusive Climate 2019-2020 DEI Coalition. The Ford School DEI Coalition met on December 6. The Coalition reviewed DEI related...

In the Media

Ford School of Public Policy announces new undergraduate minor

Jan 8, 2020 The Michigan Daily

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In the Media

An end to 'oil and gas'? Industry rebrands in climate push

Jan 8, 2020 E&E News

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In the Media

Ambassador Susan Rice to visit Ann Arbor for book tour discussion at University of Michigan

Jan 3, 2020 Click on Detroit

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In the Media

US Steel to shutter Detroit plant and lay off 1,545 workers after Trump brags he “saved” industry

Dec 21, 2019 salon

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News

Crain’s covers student work on economic impact of inconsistent border protection policies

Dec 20, 2019

Crain’s Detroit Business recently published an article that highlights a report prepared by Ford School students. The students found that stringent policies and enforcement by the CBP office in Detroit-–compared with the office in Chicago, which...

Welcoming our newly elected Alumni Board members

Dec 18, 2019

Six Ford School alumni have been elected to the Alumni Board by their peers. The term starts January 1, 2020 and runs through December 31, 2022. The newly-elected members are: Grace Evans (MPP ‘16) Richard King Mellon Foundation, Program...

In the Media

Trump Can Scrub the Clean Power Plan, But the West Will Stay Green

Dec 16, 2019 Stock Daily Dish

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Christina Cross (PhD ‘19) says in NYT op-ed that resource accessibility is the root cause of educational disparities

Dec 13, 2019

In an attempt to prevent educational disparities attributed to the effects of single-parent households, millions of federal and state dollars are poured into marriage promotion initiatives. But in a December 9 New York Times op-ed, sociologist...

In the Media

Cuomo Vetoes Study On Amending Age To Start School

Dec 11, 2019 The Post-Journal

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News

Fiscal health: Mixed signals for Michigan’s local governments

Dec 11, 2019

ANN ARBOR—More than two-thirds of Michigan’s local government leaders rate their jurisdictions’ current fiscal stress as relatively low, according to a new survey by the University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy. On the...

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

Dec 10, 2019

Starting fall 2020, the Ford School will offer University of Michigan undergraduates a 16-credit minor in public policy. The minor will have a competitive application process that will go live in April 2020. The school expects to enroll around...

In the Media

The science of incarceration: A realistic look at the cost of imprisonment

Dec 4, 2019 Science Mag

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In the Media

Professors, students reflect on implementation of online voting registration

Dec 4, 2019 The Michigan Daily

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In the Media

In a currency war, everyone loses

Dec 2, 2019 Marketplace

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In the Media

China reportedly wants rollback of US tariffs in Phase 1 trade deal

Dec 2, 2019 The Straits Times

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News

DECEMBER 2019: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Ford School

Dec 2, 2019

UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY Focus on our goal: Diversifying who we are Sponsored by Students of Color in Public Policy (SCPP), the Pipeline Initiative aims to help prospective students navigate the...

In the Media

Interview: Getting rid of tariffs a win-win situation -- U.S. economist

Dec 1, 2019 Xinhuanet

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In the Media

Tripling The College Student Vote In Ann Arbor

Nov 25, 2019 Forbes

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In the Media

How colleges are raising their student voting rates

Nov 22, 2019 Education Dive

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In the Media

His White House Engulfed, Trump Keeps California in the Cross Hairs

Nov 22, 2019 The New York Times

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Luke Shaefer named special counselor to the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Nov 22, 2019

H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan and professor of social work and public policy, has been named special counselor to the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). For the...

Luke Shaefer delivers a talk at the Ford School

U-M to welcome international ‘champions of democracy’ for key debate symposium

Nov 21, 2019

In conjunction with hosting a presidential debate next fall, the University of Michigan will welcome representatives from regions across the globe for a symposium on promoting political candidate debates and other key democratic principles and...

Giving Blueday 2019: Support what you love about the Ford School

Nov 20, 2019

One day. All of us. On Tuesday, December 3, the Ford School will participate in the University of Michigan's sixth annual Giving Blueday. Giving Blueday is an opportunity for Fordies around the globe to come together—alumni, students, faculty,...

State & Hill

Class Notes - Fall 2019 edition

Nov 19, 2019

Robert F. Goeckel (MPP ’74) is a professor of political science at SUNY Geneseo. He published Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia: Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution (Indiana University Press, 2018). The book is based on extensive...

State & Hill

Faculty Findings: Fall 2019

Nov 19, 2019

Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant on gender wage discrimination The gender pay gap is notoriously alive and well, decades after women entered the workforce in large numbers. Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant explored this issue together many times over...

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