As part of the University of Michigan's 2008 month-long celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the National Poverty Center and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy hosted a book signing and talk on Jobs & Housing: Trust,...

The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan has been awarded a federal co-operative research agreement based on a national competition that extends its research, training and dissemination activities through 2010. The NPC began its...

Long-time Ford School faculty member Ned Gramlich died September 5, 2007 after a long battle with leukemia.Ned joined the faculty of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan in 1976. He taught macroeconomic policy and benefit-cost...

Allen and Lee Sinai have given $1.5 million to name the Allen Sinai Professorship of Macroeconomics, which will be a joint appointment between the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics in LS&A. The gift is part of...

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and Provost Teresa A. Sullivan today announced the appointment of Susan M. Collins as the next Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy. The five-year appointment, made in review and discussion...

The Spring Charity Auction is the most important student-led annual event at the Ford School. This year's was the biggest, best-dressed and most lucrative so far. Over $15,000 was raised in a single night to help fund the Direct Action Centre for...

Introducing a new multimedia feature from the Ford School—short video clips presenting our faculty discussing their recent research and policy activities. Our faculty are an interdisciplinary group who take seriously the implications of their work...

Ann Arbor lies a short distance by air from a key hub of the public policy world in Washington, DC. Each February the Ford School's Graduate Career Services Office organizes a trip aimed at tapping, strengthening, and expanding the network of Ford...

In early January of each year the Ford School runs a distinctive policy simulation called the Integrated Policy Exercise. All current students are required to participate by researching and representing the role of a particular stakeholder within a...

The Ford School community has been enriched by our connections with President Ford. His name is symbolic of those things we most want our students to learn: a commitment to the common good and to the effective design and implementation of policy....