This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped...

Strategic Public Policy Consulting (SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the local, state, national or international...

This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of...

Students will understand how to design, execute, and interpret the results from advanced estimation techniques beyond the standard OLS...

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and...

This course will provide students with fundamental principles of and practical experience in presenting data in a visual form for communication and...

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 marks Giving Blueday, an annual day of giving celebration for U-M.  Each gift to the Ford School, no matter the size, will make a difference. And this year, through a generous challenge offered by the Borish Family,...

John Chamberlin, an expert in government ethics, notes, “Secrecy in state government is already a problem to begin with, and this is just one more thing on the...

Postdoctoral fellow Josh Basseches researches the power of investor-owned utilities on state climate policy. His opinion appeared in Grist. Now that we’ve had a couple weeks to process all that went wrong in Texas, people are paying more...