College access has been getting a lot of buzz, but getting more people to enroll in higher education is only the first step. Helping people graduate is proving a larger hurdle, something the House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on...
On May 1, 2019, Joshua Rivera (MPP ’17), a researcher with U-M’s Poverty Solutions, testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. The hearing, titled “Examining Discrimination in the...
Farm work was the heart of the American economy at one point, but the growth of cities and booming industrial revolution sent many flocking to cities, and farmworkers have been dwindling ever since. One stark illustration of this fall can be seen...
District lines are a hotly debated and inherently partisan issue, but Michigan courts have sought to address these biases. On Thursday, April 25, Michigan judges unanimously ruled that “GOP insiders illegally gerrymandered dozens of state and...
Small businesses can be a huge risk, with everything it takes to start one, especially when pitted against the success rate. But for Detroit-area entrepreneurs, a partnership has been helping jump that hurdle. University of Michigan’s Detroit...
Large cities are cast as meccas for young professionals, with their migration seen as a cultural inevitability. But with ever-increasing living costs and overcrowding, as well as technological advances that make proximity less of a necessity for...
Paul Atwell, a joint-PhD student in public policy and political science, along with his microeconomist co-authors Alex Armand and Joseph Gomes from the University of Navarra in Spain, are the inaugural winners of the Peter Eckstein Prize for...
Elisabeth Gerber, the Ford School’s associate dean for research and policy engagement, has earned a Teaching Innovation Prize for her development of ViewPoint. The simulation software enables educators to create a simulation activity in their...
The work of associate dean Liz Gerber is among five projects being honored with the 11th annual Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for innovative approaches to improving student learning.
The winning projects were chosen from among 47...
The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka have been claimed by the Islamic State, despite the formal borders of the caliphate no longer holding Iraq and Syria. On April 24, 2019, Washington Post reporters Shane Harris, Ellen Nakashima, Souad Mekhennet, and...
This year the Ford School is honored to welcome noted journalist Michele Norris as the keynote speaker at the 2019 commencement for our graduating BA, MPP, MPA, and PhD students.Norris, born in Minnesota, graduated with a degree in journalism and...
Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy at the Ford School, Co-Director of the Education Policy Initiative (EPI) and Youth Policy Lab (YPL), and faculty director of the Ford School’s joint-doctoral program, was named as a...
On April 22, 2019, U-M’s Sociology Department announced many of its students had won competitive fellowships for the 2019-2020 year, including Ford School joint-doctoral student Jasmine Simington. Simington is the recipient of the National Science...
The Gerald R. Ford School has long served at the forefront of a nexus of policy debates in the effort to raise the next generation of policymakers. Synonymous with the Ford School’s distinguished history is the late Edward “Ned” Gramlich—longtime...
On April 18, 2019, Rackham Graduate School announced this year’s winners of their Predoctoral Fellowship, which included two Ford School joint-PhD students, Jessica Gillooly (sociology) and Jieun Lee (political science).Awarded across disciplines,...
Tackling criminal justice reform requires a multi-pronged approach, and one of the most recent avenues gaining traction is an attempt to rework how pretrial decisions are made. The Michigan Supreme Court has its hands in this effort, launching a new...
In hostile political times, it's no wonder the research into how to encourage cooperation is proving more and more alluring. On the April 11, 2019, episode of Science History Podcast, host Frank von Hippel digs into such questions with Professor...
In the April 16, 2019 edition of the Resource Radio podcast, Ford Lecturer Daniel Raimi interviewed his colleague Barry Rabe, Ford School professor and director of the Center for Local State and Urban Policy, about his book Can We Price Carbon?...
While the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates grows and the first primaries approach, one of the top issues for the field is climate change. Since his inauguration, President Trump has reversed Obama-era environmental policies, focused...
With bias and misinformation swirling around the consequences of wind turbine installation, local government officials are hard-pressed to find reliable information for themselves and their communities. Certainly there are tangible...
In August, John Z. Ayanian published a policy–focused article with colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “ Mitigating the risks of Medicaid work requirements.”
Michael S. Barr teamed up with Howell E. Jackson and Margaret E....
What’s the future for Rust Belt cities? Claire Ballentine of Bloomberg News looks at revitalization projects attempting to answer this question in her April 8, 2019, piece titled “Rust Belt Turns to Munis to Breathe Life Into Old Factories,” talking...
Assistant Professor Kaitlin Raimi co-authored a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability on April 9, 2019. The article addresses the presence of behavior spillover, or the likelihood that one behavioral change will lead to...
In a new paper entitled “Wishful Thinking” published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-authors Andrew Caplin (a professor of economics at the New York University) and John Leahy from the University of Michigan, analyze the economic...
An investigation into Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has some questioning the impartiality of Inspector General (IG) Ellen Ha. The investigation in Mayor Duggan is looking into the appearance of preferential treatment of a nonprofit prenatal program...
