Eight years ago, development economist Dean Yang spent a week in Malawi visiting microfinance institutions, the banks and credit unions that provide financial services to some of the world's most vulnerable citizens.
Yang, who works to combat...
Kristin Seefeldt's (MPP '96, PhD '10) December 9 op-ed, published by Newsweek, describes "the real ‘left behind’ voters: black women.”
After the 2016 election, Seefeldt says, common wisdom among pundits was that Donald Trump won because of the...
More men should take service jobs in occupations traditionally dominated by women, writes Betsey Stevenson in her most recent Bloomberg View column: “Manly Men Need to Do More Girly Jobs”
Stevenson, a leading labor economist and former chief...
Kristin Seefeldt (MPP '96, PhD '10) recently spoke with Lakeshore Public Media’s "Regionally Speaking" for a podcast about research from her forthcoming book, “Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the twenty-first century.”
Seefeldt’s research...
The Youth Policy Lab has issued a request for proposals to organizations seeking to use data to improve service delivery or program design for Michigan youth. Applications for the Michigan Technical Assistance Partnership (M-TAP) Program are due...
The Ford School launched its five-year strategic plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion on October 5, 2016. It includes four central goals: diversifying ‘who we are’, diversifying ‘what and how we teach’, promoting an equitable and inclusive...
100 years ago, Montana's Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to serve in the U. S. House of Representatives. It was 1916, four years before the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote.
On election day 2016, women who voted for...
On November 16, "50 years of civil rights leadership: A U-M symposium in honor of Rev. Jesse Jackson" drew hundreds of guests and national media coverage. After a morning panel on "Transforming the party: The enduring significance of Jesse Jackson...
Students of Color in Public Policy (SCPP) and Out in Public (OIP) prepared a Día de los Muertos ofrenda, or offering, to honor victims of systemic violence and to stand in solidarity with communities battling oppression.According to SCPP: “Día de...
David Leonhardt’s November 4 New York Times op-ed, “Schools that work,” features charter school research and commentary by Susan Dynarski, co-director of the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative. The op-ed concerns a controversial ballot...
People disagree. When they do, decision makers are charged with weighing feedback from multiple parties to draw a conclusion about how best to move forward.
“You have decision makers who need to deal with that disagreement," says Elisabeth...
Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan has issued two requests for proposals for action-oriented research.
Junior faculty small grants competition
The first request for proposals is intended for junior faculty at the University of...
Reynolds Farley, in an op-ed for the Michigan Daily, calls on U-M bicentennial planners to recognize and promote diversity around campus through historical markers.Noting that many buildings on campus are named after white men of European origin,...
We are deeply saddened to report that Eunice Burns (MPA ’70)—an Ann Arbor civil servant, a long-standing community and environmental leader, and a beloved alumna of the Ford School—passed away on October 20, 2016 at the age of 93.Burns, a mother of...
Researchers at the University of Michigan have launched a new lab designed to help state and local agencies, social service providers, nonprofits and educators improve life outcomes for Michigan youth, from birth through age 25.The Youth Policy Lab...
Bankole Thompson, host of “Redline,” a public affairs program that airs daily on 910 AM Super Station Detroit, delivered a live broadcast from the Ford School on October 7.
Thompson interviewed a number of guests, including Josh Rivera (MPP...
The Ford School has publicly released its five-year strategic plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion, developed as part of a broad University of Michigan commitment launched by President Schlissel in September 2015.The plan includes assessment,...
New research from the Education Policy Initiative at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy found that many Michigan K-12 students experience very large core classes—with 40 or more students—but that some students are at greater...
The editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs (MJPA) is pleased to announce the 2016 edition and thirteenth volume of the student-run journal of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.This year’s call for papers established the...
“It’s easy to get the impression, as the U.S. celebrates the 45th annual Women’s Equality Day today, that the march toward equality has slowed to a crawl. Allow me to disagree,” writes Betsey Stevenson in today’s Bloomberg piece, “Believe it or not,...
Luz Viviana Meza (MPP '17) is submitting this field report from her summer 2016 internship at the City of Detroit mayor's office, where she works with the Department of Immigrant Affairs and the Department of Neighborhoods (District 6).
As a...
Michelle Rubin (MPP '17) submits this field report from her summer 2016 internship at Global Detroit.
I am just wrapping up and reflecting on my ten-week summer internship with Global Detroit. Global Detroit is a non-profit that aims to...
Reynolds Farley is quoted in a Bridge Magazine piece, reprinted in today's Detroit Free Press, on “Black and white optimism on Detroit-area race relations.” The piece reports on a recent poll by the Detroit Journalism Cooperative that collected...
The Ford School and University of Michigan recently hosted the 10th biennial Graduate Horizons conference for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian students.View the photo album here.The four-day conference, held July 9 - 12 on the...
The David Bohnett Foundation Leadership and Public Service Fellowship, launched in 2010 with a gift from the foundation of U-M alumnus David Bohnett (MBA ’80), is a competitive award that enables Ford School students to apply their policy training...
Maureen (Molly) Welch-Marahar (MPP '17) submits this internship field report from her summer 2016 service with Breast Cancer Action in San Francisco, California. I’m one month into my 10 weeks here at Breast Cancer Action and I already feel at home....
“It’s hard to know whom you can trust anymore—at least that’s the attitude of many Americans today. Therein lies a crucial challenge for the world’s largest economy,” writes Betsey Stevenson in “Want to Help the Economy? Learn to Trust,” published...
David Thacher spoke with Sarah Childress of PBS Frontline about “The problem with “broken windows” policing.”The piece, which explores what we know, and don’t know, about the effectiveness of broken windows policing, aired on June 28.Just what is...
Students in Gretchen Whitmer’s winter 2016 seminar on “Running, Serving, and Leading” interviewed a number of thought leaders about policy issues important to...
“Puerto Rico’s primary did not receive the media attention of many of those that preceded it,” writes Mara Ostfeld in The Conversation. “And with only 60 pledged delegates, a primary late in the election season, and a population that is ineligible...
