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Community Partnerships Playbook - Create equitable partnerships between technical & community experts

Feb 29, 2024 0:59:32

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and community partners, Detroit Disability Power, Detro

Community partnerships playbook. How to create equitable partnerships between technical and community experts. Logos on right: Detroit Disability Power, Detroit Justice Center, Ford School Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. We the People Michigan Action Fund.

Dean's Symposium

4/12 update - Watch or rewatch the Dean's Symposium events by clicking on the session below. Join us for two days of panels, chats, and keynotes focused on examining and seeking solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face in Michigan, in the...

Second Look Legislation - A Policy Briefing

Mar 18, 2024, 12:00 pm EDT

East Room

This policy briefing is the culmination of a project carried out by five Masters of Public Policy students who worked with the American Friends Service Committee’s Michigan Criminal Justice Program in the Strategic Public Policy Consulting course at the Ford School of Public Policy. The students gathered current data on the MDOC prisoner population and modeled the potential cost savings that could be realized under the proposed Second Look legislation in Michigan.

Publication

Injuries of inequality and the promise of safety nets

Mar 7, 2024

What would a comprehensive strategy for reproductive rights and access look like, borrowing from the lessons from the fight against HIV? This is the question that Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Ford School...

Headshots of Dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes and Dom Adams-Santos

News

Youth Policy Lab fellowships bridge public policy and academic research

Mar 5, 2024

Since 2019, the Youth Policy Lab has partnered with the State of Michigan and with local school districts to place early-career professionals in government agencies to make specific, measurable improvements in policies and programs that impact...

News

Embracing Growth Mindsets: A Practical Approach for Leaders to Address Class-Based Disparities

Mar 6, 2024

In work environments where a four-year degree is the norm, employees who are skilled through alternative routes (STARs), such as apprenticeships or on-the-job training, are less likely to feel like they belong in those environments, contributing to...

Admissions

Spring Preview Day 2024

Apr 5, 2024, All Day

Joan and Sanford Weill Hall

Spring Preview is designed to help admitted master's students get to know our faculty, staff, current students—and each other!

News

IHP continues with university engagement efforts

Mar 6, 2024

The University of Michigan’s Inclusive History Project is continuing its efforts to engage members of the university community by developing a tri-campus student advisory committee and creating a research and engagement fund.The project is U-M’s...

Earl Lewis delivers remarks at a U-M History Department event

News

Guaranteed income for entrepreneurs: U-M researchers to assess impact

Mar 5, 2024

One hundred Ann Arbor entrepreneurs, gig workers and other independent workers with low incomes have received their first two guaranteed income payments of $528 as part of the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor pilot program.Payments started in...

Seefeldt and Emily Shupp Parker tabling outside for GIG A2

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Environmental Justice and Confronting the Climate Crisis

Mar 26, 2024, 5:00 pm EDT

Rackham Auditorium 915 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

As the life-threatening impacts of the climate crisis grow more aggressive each year, the Biden-Harris administration is implementing an all-of-government approach at the scale and speed this urgent situation demands.

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