Betsey Stevenson lent her expertise in labor markets to a recent U.S. News & World Report article on the gender pay gap, which despite gains in educational attainment for women, isn’t expected to close globally for another 118 years, according to a...
On Monday, February 22, the Ford School hosted “21st Century Policing: Lessons from Cincinnati,” as part of the University of Michigan's 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. The event brought together a roundtable of community leaders to talk...
While local leaders say police forces across Michigan have good overall relations with their communities, those in larger cities worry about the possibility of civil unrest after well-publicized incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore.In...
In a February 5 guest column for Bridge Magazine, a publication of The Center for Michigan, Reynolds Farley discusses Michigan’s controversial emergency management system and proposes solutions to help underfunded localities.
Farley's...
The last place David Thacher expected to uncover a largely overlooked policing philosophy—one highly relevant to today’s police reform discussions—was from a man best known as a landscape architect in the late 19th century. In fact, he kind of...
Seventeen undergraduates, including five of the Ford School’s bachelor’s degree students, were recognized at a January 23 MLK Spirit Award ceremony that highlighted the ways in which these students have worked to carry on King’s spirit.Dr. Martin...
Betsey Stevenson is quoted in a January 22 HuffPost piece by Jonathan Cohn, “Paid Family Leave Laws Aren’t Crushing Business, Despite What Ted Cruz Says.”“Paid family leave is finally getting serious attention in Washington and on the campaign...
A January 12 Washington Post article tackles American attitudes on race and immigration, citing new research from Mara Ostfeld, who is finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ford School and will join the political science faculty in fall...
The Ford School is delighted to announce that the University of Michigan will host the tenth “Graduate Horizons” higher-education preparation program for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian students preparing to apply to graduate...
Steve Tobocman (MPP/JD '97) is the director of Global Detroit, a non-profit that seeks to revitalize Michigan’s economy by making the region more attractive and welcoming to immigrants, international students, businesses, and investors. He speaks...
A research manager at the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative (EPI), Mahima S. Mahadevan (MPP ‘11) is leading the implementation of a major study on Michigan’s charter schools. Preliminary findings will be released in early 2016. Mahima has...
More than two-dozen faculty, staff, and students shared comments and ideas for making the University of Michigan more diverse, equitable, and inclusive at a community assembly with U-M President Mark Schlissel on Tuesday.The comments — both...
In a recent op-ed for The Detroit News, Al Young grapples with racial consciousness, contrasting the products of his racially segmented upbringing in 1970s East Harlem with his sons’ more fluid worlds in Ann Arbor today.“I long for them to...
Today, Dean Susan M. Collins officially launched the Ford School’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic planning initiative, which will be a top priority for the Ford School for the coming year.
Here are excerpts from the letter Collins...
The Michigan Journal of Public Affairs (MJPA) has published its spring 2015 volume, featuring articles and notes on a variety of topics including immigration policy, climate change, educational impacts on mental health, and development policy. This...
“We are in the middle of the most important social movement for police reform in a half century,” writes David Thacher in “Don’t End Broken Windows Policing, Fix It” published on The Marshall Project criminal justice news blog. “The focus and moral...
The Ford School is delighted to announce that a number of faculty members will join our community this fall. To introduce them to the Ford School community, we’re running weekly Q&As throughout the summer that touch on their policy and personal...
Betsey Stevenson is helping to paint a picture of the stark reality surrounding racial and economic inequality in the United States. In a July 30 Yahoo Politics article, "Obama: Investing in minority men is not 'charity,' it's lucrative," Senior...
The Ford School is delighted to announce that a number of faculty members will join our community this fall. To introduce them to the Ford School community, we’re running weekly Q&As throughout the summer that touch on their policy and personal...
"Our work is far from over—especially in Michigan," writes Kary L. Moss in her June 29 Detroit News op-ed, "Continue work toward equality." "In some ways, in fact, it's only beginning."
Moss argues that while the Supreme Court marriage equality...
Mika Koizumi (MPP '16) offers this field report from Paris, France. Koizumi is working on gender equality issues with the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development...
In a press conference Friday in Ferndale, Kary Moss was joined in celebration by Michigan LGBT civil rights leaders for a victory she called "historic." Moss, the director of the Michigan branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), was, of...
Kary Moss has long advocated for reform to the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. After years of lobbying and advocacy, she and other supporters may finally see changes to the controversial laws.The Senate is set to consider an eight-bill package,...
Kary Moss, a lecturer at the Ford School and executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, is quoted in a series of articles announcing the release of Mobile Justice Michigan, a free app that makes it easy for citizens to...
The Ford School's 2015 PPIA Junior Summer Institute fellows have arrived, and will begin their intensive seven-week training program aimed at preparing them for graduate school and leadership roles in public service. This year marks the 34th of the...
By Deborah Meyers Greene, Public Affairs
"Walking the Line of Blackness," a 20-minute video created by and featuring graduate students from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, puts their direct, personal experiences with racism in...
China trip students blog about their experiences, covering LGBT policy challenges, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and moreEach year, 15 Ford School graduate students travel to China for two weeks to study the nation’s policy environment. In country,...
Sixteen Ford School masters students speak about their experiences around race and racism on camera in a new student-produced film, "Walking the Line of Blackness". The students screened the film at Weill Hall on April 23 for a crowd of more than...
Michon Johnson
The Udall Foundation recently announced that 12 students from 11 tribes and 10 universities have been selected as 2015 Native American Congressional Interns. They were selected by an independent review...
Women and Gender in Public Policy (WGPP – pronounced “whip”), a student organization at the Ford School, recently hosted five of Michigan’s leading female policymakers for a discussion on women in elected office. The April 2nd event was covered by...
