| Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

News

New U-M report lifts up Detroit residents' priorities for economic mobility

Sep 25, 2020

A new report from the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions lifts up more than a decade's worth of input from Detroit residents on how to increase economic mobility and decrease poverty in their city. The community-based research project,...

Staff

Kellen Epstein

Chief Development Officer

[email protected]

734-615-7047

Kellen Epstein is the Chief Development Officer at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In this role she oversees all fundraising and alumni relations efforts, coordinates with the dean and other members of the Ford…

Economic Development Seminar

Prison labor: The price of prisons and the lasting effects of incarceration

Oct 1, 2020, 4:00-5:20 pm EDT

Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects.

Publication

Employer Resource Networks hold promise to increase retention and improve productivity of entry-level workers - Shaefer

Sep 24, 2020

Employer Resource Networks (ERNs) involve local networks of employers collectively providing work support services to their entry-level workforce. In a paper published for the American Enterprise Institute, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of...

Luke Shaefer delivers a talk at the Ford School

News

College tuition announced for Michigan’s frontline workers, with help from Youth Policy Lab fellow

Sep 23, 2020

The state of Michigan is offering free college tuition for frontline workers in a unique program inspired by the G.I. Bill that provided college education to those serving their country after WWII. Futures For Frontliners , first announced in April...

STPP Lecture Series

Digital contact tracing: An unlikely policy story

Dec 7, 2020, 4:00-5:00 pm EST

Erin Simpson, Associate Director of Technology Policy at the Center for American Progress, will join STPP for a conversation about digital contact tracing and privacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Illustration of people with location icons above them, circles around them, and lines connecting them to each other in a web. Many of them are holding or looking at their smartphones.

CFLP Blue Bag Lunches

Technological support for entrepreneurship among marginalized communities

Oct 1, 2020, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

Online technologies are increasingly hailed as enablers of entrepreneurship and income generation.

Publication

Thacher’s study sheds light on emerging model to improve policing

Sep 23, 2020

Ford School professor David Thacher’s new study, “The Learning Model of Use-of-Force Reviews,” examines how common use-of-force incident reviews can be used as a learning tool for policing. Use of force criteria and practice have been a hotly...

News

Weiser Diplomacy Center participates in U.S. State Department Diplomacy Lab program for aspiring diplomats

Sep 23, 2020

Disinformation in sub-Saharan Africa, money laundering in the Western Hemisphere, space diplomacy, China’s domestic drug problem and international hostage negotiation are real-world issues that students will explore as the Ford School’s Weiser...

Publication

Parthasarathy’s report shows innovation policy ignores marginalized communities

Sep 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed policymaking biases that have ignored poor and marginalized communities, argues Ford school professor Shobita Parthasarathy. In a paper, Innovation Policy, Structural Inequality, and COVID-19, published in the...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

Subscribe to