We invite you to attend an upcoming information session about the Ford School B.A. Professor John Chamberlin, faculty director of the undergraduate program, will describe the degree program and will be available to answer questions. The Ford School B.A. Is a junior/senior program. The application deadline for the next class is February 1, 2009.
On September 25–26, 2009 the Ford School will be hosting an all alumni reunion in conjunction with the school\'s 95th birthday. Please check back periodically for more event details and travel information.
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Join Shobita Parthasarathy and other community members to talk about technology and the election in 2008. This will be an informal conversation to discuss how technology shaped the 2008 presidential election process as well as how the election influenced technology; come and share your thoughts. The event will be hosted by Ford School Webmaster Chris Myers. An RSVP is encouraged - fspp-secondlife at umich.edu Not already 'In world'?
Marian Wright Edelman speaks from her new book, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation, which she wrote as a call to action for all Americans to address the urgent needs of our country's youth.
A panel discussion hosted by the student organization Women and Gender in Public Policy (WGPP). Panelists will discuss their career paths.
Panelists: State Representative Rebekah Warren (D-53); Sharon Rothwell, former Governor Engler's Chief of Staff; The Honorable Nancy C. Francis, an elected Washtenaw County circuit judge.
David Broder, national political columnist for the Washington Post, will be speaking at the Ford Library on north campus on Tuesday, 11/18. Details: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/events.asp. Broder will discuss the political
landscape following last week's elections.
He will stop by the Ford School the next morning for breakfast and a small-group discussion about the same topic with any interested faculty, students, and staff.
BREAKFAST/DISCUSSION WITH DAVID BRODER
Ford School
3rd floor seminar room
Wednesday, November 19, 9:00 - 10:00a
Broder has covered every national election since 1960.
Alumni from the San Francisco area gathered to connect with former classmates and fellow alumni at CAV Wine Bar and Kitchen in San Francisco. Meredith Fowlie, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, gave brief remarks about her research on environmental economics and policy, including work on market-based environmental regulations.
Join us as we highlight and celebrate the intellectual achievements of graduate and undergraduate students at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Ford School faculty will nominate students for inclusion, and the posters on display will represent a wide range of student work: from local issues to foreign policy, from social welfare policy to health care reform, from undergraduate work to dissertation research.
Reception and booksigning to follow. Kristin Seefeldt, a Research Investigator at the Ford School and Assistant Director of the National Poverty Center, will speak from her new book, published December, 2008 by the W.E.
Allan Stam, U-M Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies, will discuss the genocide, civil war, vendetta killings and random violence that took place in Rwanda in 1994. In their recent NSF-funded work, Stam and his colleagues drew from a number of data sources, and their conclusions call into question much of the conventional wisdom about the the violence.
