Join the Ford School in welcoming Branko Milanovic, author of the forthcoming book, "Recent Trends in Global Income Inequality and Their Political Implications."
Authors Kathy Edin and Luke Shaefer discuss the majorn themes of their revelatory research on income inequality and extreme poverty in the United States.
Based on the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on money laundering charges, Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange is the New Black, raises provocative questions about the state of criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects the individual and communities throughout the nation.
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Great Hall
Day 2: Exercise your brain at Math Camp, enjoy lunch with faculty and staff, advance job prospects with Graduate Career Services, get caught up in the Logistics Loop, and more!
Please join the National Poverty Center in welcoming Daniel Geary for panel discussion about his latest book Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and its Legacy.
Thinking about pursuing a career in public office? Want to know what life is like on the campaign trail and beyond? U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell will introduce a panel of women leaders who have served in elected office in Michigan. Panelists will share their experiences and answer audience questions about what drove them to pursue a career in public office, how they ran successful campaigns, and what life looks like as an elected official.
An Education Policy Initiative and School of Education
Speaker Series with panelists Chastity Pratt Dawsey, reporter for Bridge Magazine, Diana Preciado, instructional specialist at Detroit Public Schools, Lamont D. Satchel, Chief Innovation Officer at Detroit Public Schools, and Tawana Petty aka Honeycomb, Detroit mother/organizer/author/poet.
This event is open to Ford School students, faculty, and staff, and guests of the Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies. The Diversity Center hosts Professor Sara Soderstrom and her research team for an interactive discussion on how racial and other social identifies affect student feelings of inclusion on the University of Michigan’s campus.
Join the Ford School Diversity Student Coalition for an interactive policy simulation and a discussion about the influence of unconscious perception and conscious framing in policy-making, facilitated by Mahima Mahadevan. Dinner will be served!
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
Join the Ford School in welcoming back Dr. Ruth Browne, CEO of Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and the 2015 Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence. This event is part of the University of Michigan's 29th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium.
As part of the 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, the Ford School's Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies presents a screening of American Denial, followed by a discussion with producer/director Llewellyn Smith and Professor Martha S. Jones.
Ta-Nehisi Coates delves into the conflicted and hopeful state of black America today. What does "black culture" mean? What is the continuing role of both the older and younger generations in shaping it? Where will gentrification, education, and the splintering (or unifying) of families take it? With an easy-going manner, an unashamedly erudite approach, and a journalist's grasp of narrative and clarity, Coates delivers an ear-to-the-ground (and Eyes on the Prize) talk that asks the small personal questions as well as the big historic ones.
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
