On a rainy Saturday morning in May, nine National Poverty Center (NPC) staff, faculty, and friends met at Detroit's Bushnell Congregational Church for a day of muddy, but fun, volunteer service. Shawn Pelak, a regular Detroit volunteer and program...

As this year's graduating seniors begin a new chapter in their lives, a new University of Michigan report indicates many in next year's senior class should be concerned about not wearing a cap and gown. Some seniors in the Class of 2011 might...

Brian Jacob wrote an op-ed article in the Detroit Free Press about the challenges associated with new graduation requirements for Michigan high school students. He wrote, "educators and researchers should engage in a systematic, comprehensive...

This fall, the Ford School will launch an expanded version of a popular course, the Applied Policy Seminar (APS), now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC. The SPPC enables our Master of Public Policy students to serve as consultants to...

Ford School students got the chance to rub elbows with two influential figures as the winter semester wound down, Sanford (Sandy) Weill and Harold Ford Jr.The two, who became friends several years ago through their philanthropic work with the Alvin...

You walk into your office, find it unbearably hot, and jack up the AC. Your office mates may complain when they have to dig out their cardigans in July, but the act itself is easily reversed with the flip of a switch and, at worst, you've only...

In Timisoara, the second largest city in Romania, Ford School master's of public policy candidate Eric Burnstein is interning with the chief City Hall architect at the Atelier de Urbanism. The city is a cultural treasure—with dozens of museums and...

Ford School students got a glimpse into the work of one of the most elusive organizations in the world when representatives from the United States Central Intelligence Agency came to Ann Arbor on Saturday, March 20 to run a simulation exercise....

80,000 – 85,000. The number of students, alumni, family, faculty, staff, and friends who crowded into Michigan Stadium on Saturday, May 1, to hear President Barack Obama deliver the Commencement Address to the University's Class of 2010. Obama...

The Ford School is very pleased to welcome Associate Professor David J. Harding to the faculty. Harding has been an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan since 2006. He retains his Sociology appointment along with his...