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Engaged learning in Ford School classrooms--beyond the big-ticket experiences

Dec 23, 2016

The Ford School has a long history of emphasizing engaged learning. Many of the big-ticket experiences, like the Integrated Policy Exercise (IPE), Applied Policy Seminar (APS) now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting (SPPC), International...

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Fall 2016 State & Hill magazine focuses on “Innovation for the Public Good”

Dec 15, 2016

The fall 2016 issue of State & Hill magazine was mailed to alumni and friends of the Ford School on December 15, 2016. This edition of the magazine, titled “Innovation for the public good,” highlights faculty, students, and alumni who are...

Students, community members pack into overflow rooms for post-election analysis

Nov 10, 2016

Over 600 people filled the Annenberg Auditorium, Betty Ford Classroom, Great Hall, and at least three other classrooms around the Ford School on Wednesday, November 9 to watch a panel of professors and policymakers unpack the results of the 2016...

Gerber develops "Policymaker" to simulate stakeholder engagement, policy decision-making

Nov 4, 2016

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...

U-M provost appoints advisory committee to lead the Ford School's dean search

Oct 3, 2016

Provost Martha E. Pollack has appointed an advisory committee to search for a new dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The search process will begin in early October. Elisabeth Gerber, associate dean for research and policy...

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Internship field report, Bohnett Fellow Luz Viviana Meza @ the Detroit mayor's office

Aug 19, 2016

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...

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Inaugural Detroit Data Fellow will assist Motor City police with real-time data analysis

Jul 11, 2016

University of Michigan alum Reid Wilson was selected as the first Detroit Data Fellow and will spend the next two years analyzing Detroit Police Department data to help understand crime patterns in real time. Wilson, who earned a master's...

Mara Ostfeld in The Conversation, "The Puerto Rican primary matters. Here's why."

Jun 6, 2016

“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...

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Announcing associate dean leadership transitions at the Ford School (2016-2018)

May 31, 2016

Associate dean for academic programs. As many of you know, Kathryn Dominguez, the Ford School’s associate dean for academic programs, was nominated for a position on the Federal Reserve Board last summer. While Congress has not yet held hearings on...

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Ford School faculty news from the spring 2016 edition of State & Hill magazine

May 3, 2016

The Washington Post reports that Robert Axelrod’s The Evolution of Cooperation is one of the ten most assigned books at Ivy League universities. Originally published in 1984, the book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking...

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Discourse, Ford School faculty in the news roundup from spring 2016 State & Hill magazine

May 1, 2016

“The mantra in Michigan was a job, a better job, a career: Through work you would experience upward mobility. There was never any evidence that was the case.” Kristin Seefeldt on the false promise of U.S. welfare reform, The Atlantic, Dec. 1,...

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Sometimes finding nothing means more: Recognizing the value of failure, understanding null results

Apr 27, 2016

In 2014, a promising early-literacy program was implemented in seven Michigan charter schools. Over the next year, Brian Jacob, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, compared the progress of students who learned reading skills...

Wolfers in NY Times, negative effects of bad neighborhoods larger than we thought

Mar 28, 2016

“Growing up in a bad neighborhood does more harm than we thought,” a New York Times Economic View column by Justin Wolfers, describes important new findings by Eric Chyn, a doctoral candidate in economics at U-M, on the negative effects of bad...

WaPo features Ostfeld's research on American attitudes on race and immigration

Jan 13, 2016

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...

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Massive policy simulation explores regional cooperation, economic development, green energy

Jan 5, 2016

It’s hardly uncommon for University of Michigan faculty to invite in an outside expert or two to share their perspectives with students in a course. Still, it’s safe to say that Elisabeth Gerber, the Jack L. Walker Professor of Public Policy, has...

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Next-gen Detroit Area Study, informing policy in the greater Detroit area

Nov 25, 2015

Building a data infrastructure to inform policy in the greater Detroit area Starting in 1951 and running for more than 50 years, U-M’s annual Detroit Area Study (DAS) helped social scientists better understand the attitudes, views, and lives of...

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Liz Gerber's "Motivational crowding in sustainable development interventions," APSR

Aug 3, 2015

A research article by Arun Agrawal, Ashwini Chhatre, and Elisabeth Gerber, "Motivational crowding in sustainable development interventions," was published in the August 2015 edition of American Political Science Review. Abstract We used a...

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Ford School impact stories, helping communities adapt to a changing climate

Apr 25, 2015

Yohei Chiba (MPP ’12) surveys damage from the Tohoku earthquake during his 2011 internship with Direct Relief International Yohei Chiba (MPP ’12), Policy Researcher, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Quantifying the...

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International economic development class visits Rio and Brasilia with former ambassador Mel Levitsky

Apr 24, 2015

By Miriam Wasserman International economic development students with U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Liliana Ayalde (center front, holding U-M flag) For the students of PubPol 674, the Ford School’s international economic development course, a...

Applied Policy Seminar project cited in MLive story on economic potential of Kalamazoo River

Apr 6, 2015

An MLive story published this weekend on the economic potential of the long-polluted Kalamazoo River cited the work of a six-member team in Elisabeth Gerber’s 2012 Applied Policy Seminar (APS) course, now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or...

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Sound policy decisions, real-world time constraints and pressures, the Integrated Policy Exercise

Jan 14, 2015

Prior to taking part in the Ford School’s annual Integrated Policy Exercise (IPE) last week, Andrew Floyd (MPP ‘16) had a relatively vague notion of the part lobbyists played in the legislative process. After being cast as a lobbyist during the...

Das, Derbes, Duverce, Higgins, and Singh win first Ford School Case Competition

Nov 26, 2014

The inaugural Ford School Case Competition has come to an end (see pictures here), with a group of first-year MPP students taking this year’s title.Kamolika Das, Catherine Derbes, Brenda Duverce, Maureen Higgins, and Khush Singh emerged from...

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First Bohnett Fellows Summit in Detroit

Oct 24, 2014

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy hosted the first Bohnett Fellows Summit in Detroit in October, 2014. The event--designed to highlight and explore policy issues related to the renaissance of the City of Detroit--brought together...

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Skin in the game, Applied Policy Seminar puts students to work for local governments, NGOs

May 1, 2014

When Susan Pollay, executive director of the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA), wanted to document the economic impact of her organization and others like it around the state of Michigan last fall, she sought help from the Ford...

Metropolitan areas, regionalism, and the politics of intergovernmental cooperation

Apr 3, 2014

The Ford School's distinguished Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy Elisabeth R. Gerber will deliver a lecture as part of our school's centennial celebrations. For more information, please visit the event website:...

Five Ford School faculty were nominated by students for this year's Golden Apple Award

Mar 14, 2014

Ford School professors Susan Dynarski, Elisabeth Gerber, Yazier Henry, Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky and Justin Thomas were nominated for the Golden Apple Award this year.The Golden Apple Award, recognizes outstanding university teaching, and is the...

Greetings from the Dean - Feed January 2014

Jan 28, 2014

A new year begins, and I write with the warmest wishes that 2014 will bring health, peace, and prosperity to you and yours, and to the many wonderful communities you serve. For the Ford School, 2014 is a very special year: our centennial anniversary...

Students tackle Great Lakes policy challenges in Integrated Policy Exercise

Jan 15, 2014

Now in its 14th year, the Integrated Policy Exercise (IPE) has become a signature component of the Ford School master's program. For three days during the first week of January, MPP and MPA students play stakeholders in in a large-scale and...

Crowdfunding guides prepared by Ford School students circulated by Crowdfund Insider

Dec 14, 2013

Legislation allowing intrastate crowdfunding in Michigan, which will allow the sales of securities to an unlimited number of non-accredited investors, passed unanimously in the Michigan Senate. As the bill heads back to the House for final approval...

Ford students testify in Lansing on equity crowdfunding legislation

Oct 17, 2013

Christopher Falcone (MPP '14), Matthew Papadapoluos (MPP/MA '13), Erin Sullivan (MPP '14), and Jessica Teng (MPP '14) appeared in front of the House Commerce Committee to testify on House Bill (HB) 4996 which would allow equity crowdfunding in...