The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) announced the appointment of Matthew M. Davis as chief medical executive for the state. In his new role, Davis will provide MDCH with professional medical expertise on public health issues and...

Former dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Rebecca M. Blank, will serve as the next chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison. Blank was named to the post by UW System President Kevin P....

March 18, 2013Lauren Sheram (MPP '14) is among four U-M graduate students whose team, Focus Education, won the 2013 Social Impact Challenge. Teams from ten U-M graduate schools competed in the case competition, which offers U-M students the...

Local government leaders in Michigan are more likely to trust their residents than their residents are to trust local governments, according to a University of Michigan survey.More than half of Michigan's local leaders, or 53 percent, say they trust...

President Obama's former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, discussed research by Susan Dynarski in his latest column for Bloomberg View, "The Diploma Gap Between Rich and Poor."In his column, Orszag discusses the causes...

In an op-ed for the Detroit News, Ann C. Lin suggests that a provisional residency system for U.S. immigrants should be considered as part of the solution to the country's immigration debate.Lin writes, "As support builds for some kind of...

The Great Recession leaves behind the largest number of long-term unemployed people, or 4.7 million, since records were first kept in 1948, according to research from the University of Michigan."About 46 million Americans, according to our latest...

In a new installment of "Policy Points," Barry Rabe discusses the increasing belief among Americans in the existence of global warming."We've now seen in recent surveys a jump back up from levels of the last couple of years—where belief was around...

Employers can now request the 2013 resumes of Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Administration students to find candidates for summer internships and full-time job openings. The books include updated resumes from all current Ford School...

Join us for a 2013 Citi Foundation Lecture by Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA, on Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00 p.m. [More]View the Web...