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Barr commentary cited by Sen. Warren regarding Fed Vice Chair confirmation

Mar 2, 2022

Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr provided insight for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as she pressed the Senate to confirm Professor Sarah Bloom Raskin as Fed Vice Chair for Supervision, noting the increased risks the vacancy poses to the U.S....

EPI Speaker Series

Pushing on policymaking theory: Understanding the contemporary efforts to stymie change using a racialized policymaking framework

Mar 22, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

1210 Weill Hall and virtual via Zoom

As a part of the Education Policy Speaker Series, Rodriguez, Davis, and Deane will discuss racialized policymaking that pushes back on the race-neutral framings of prevailing policy-making theories...

Headshots of Awilda Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Education; Charles H. F. Davis III, Assistant Professor of Education; KC Deane, Predoctoral Research Fellow

Addressing nationalist extremism in North America: Policy tools & frameworks

Jan 10, 2022 1:09:23

Raul Guillermo Benítez Manaut, Richard Fadden, and Thomas Warrick focus on the policy tools and frameworks available for countering nationalist extremism in Mexico, Canada and the United States. January, 2022.

Eugene Kang: Young Leaders in Public Service

Feb 23, 2022 0:57:01

Eugene Kang discusses his past Teneo and former Obama White House in this edition of Young Leaders in Public Service. February, 2022.

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Ford School alum and Ukraine expert gives analysis of emerging crisis

Feb 28, 2022

Orysia Kulick (MPP, MA in Russian Studies '06) was a Fullbright fellow in Ukraine in 2004-2005, during the time of the Orange Revolution that overthrew a Russian-dominated government. She went on to earn her PhD from Stanford University in...

Admissions

Spring Preview Day 2022

Apr 8, 2022, All Day

Joan and Sanford Weill Hall

Spring Preview is designed to help admitted master's students get to know our faculty, staff, and students—and each other!

Melvyn Levitsky: Ukraine-Russia crisis - what to know

Feb 1, 2022 0:03:08

What is essential to know about the rising tensions in eastern Europe and the Ukraine-Russia crisis?

Javed Ali: Ukraine crisis

Feb 24, 2022 0:03:10

University of Michigan experts can discuss Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine and its implications on global politics, economics and the human scale.

In the Media

El-Sayed calls for auto and health insurance reform in new op-ed

Feb 25, 2022 Crain's Detroit Business

Abdul El-Sayed, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, urges lawmakers to stop making auto insurance double as health insurance in a recent op-ed for Crain's Business Detroit. "As Michiganders know all too well, we pay more for auto...

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Ford School experts weigh in on Russian invasion of Ukraine

Feb 25, 2022

As the Russian military surrounded and began its assault on Ukraine, Melvyn Levitsky, professor of international policy and practice, and Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, lent their expertise to numerous media outlets to break down the...

Weill Hall entrance with "Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy" etched into the glass

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