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Publication

Housing shortages across Michigan alarming local leaders - Michigan survey

Sep 14, 2023

Michigan local officials are reporting alarm at the lack of housing options across the state. Those concerns include single-family homes and multi-family units, and cut across affordable, entry-level and mid-level housing availability. The...

News

Will courts limit the use of climate-combatting technologies?

Aug 30, 2023

Ford School professor Barry Rabe is concerned about how a set of recent court decisions mean for new climate technologies. In a commentary piece for Brookings, Rabe notes that while the U.S. has been a world leader in accelerating the transition...

Admissions

Beyond Albion Career Fair

Sep 19, 2023, 4:00-6:00 pm EDT

Meet representatives from our admissions team and learn more about the Ford School.

Admissions

APSIA Online Graduate School Fair II

Sep 28, 2023, 11:00 am-1:45 pm EDT

Connect one-on-one with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and other top public policy and international affairs programs from across the country!

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Admissions

Is an MPP right for me? Ford School Information Session

Sep 26, 2023, 6:00-7:00 pm EDT

Meet representatives from our admissions team and learn more about the Ford School.

News

Green examines water data as part of UMSI theme year

Sep 13, 2023

“Water conservation and access” brings a slew of images to mind: wastewater flowing through main lines to a city treatment plant, a fisherman yanking invasive mussels off the hull of a trawler, the installation of filters in communities that lack...

In the Media

ASEAN nations need support to counter China - Ciorciari

Sep 13, 2023 VOA

John Ciorciari, VOA: John Ciorciari, associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, said in an email to VOA Khmer that ASEAN remains an important forum for diplomacy, but “without consensus on some of the region’s most pressing...

In the Media

Shaefer on increase in poverty rate

Sep 13, 2023 Marketplace

Luke Shaefer, Marketplace: “We saw big increases in poverty across every sociodemographic group,” said Luke Shaefer, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan. “The biggest was among children. We saw child poverty more than...

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Weiser Diplomacy Center Series

Ambassador's forum: Opportunities and challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sep 25, 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)

Join for a joint discussion hosted by the Weiser Diplomacy Center at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the American Academy of Diplomacy with four former senior diplomats on the opportunities and challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Portraits of (left to right) Former Ambassador John Feeley, Retired Ambassador P. Michael McKinley, President of the American Academy of Diplomacy Ronald Neuman, and Former Ambassador and senior USAID official Liliana Ayalde

News

Ciorciari comments on India-Middle East rail link announcement

Sep 12, 2023

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Joe Biden and other G20 leaders announced plans to construct a rail and shipping corridor that would link India with the Middle East and Europe. The Ford School's John Ciorciari, whose research...

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