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John Chamberlin spoke to the Detroit Free Press about Detroit pension board concerns over investments with businessman Robert Shumake. According to the article, in 2006 the pension boards agreed to invest millions of dollars with Shumake’s company...

Ford School alum Shevaun Culmer (MPP ’09) was named the new Program Manager at the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE), the antiterrorism arm of the Organization of American States (OAS).According to a Bahamian news...

C.J. Lee (MPP ’10) was interviewed by AnnArbor.com about his Ford School internship with Rick Snyder’s campaign. Snyder, a candidate in the 2010 Michigan gubernatorial race and U-M alum, brought Lee on board to help with his summer campaign...

John Chamberlin spoke to the Detroit News about the need for background disclosure of Detroit City Council candidates, especially in light of the number of current members who have faced home foreclosures or failed to pay taxes in a timely...

One of the highlights of the late-September Ford School Alumni Reunion Weekend was the presentation of the Neil Staebler Alumni Service Award to Dr. Douglas A. Brook (MPA '67). Brook was given the award in recognition of a very distinguished career...

Applied Policy Seminar Evolves With Student Interests In the shadow of the Detroit-Windsor Ambassador Bridge, Mexicantown's authentic restaurants and bakeries delight tourists and locals. Every year, millions of Midwesterners drive through the...

Marc Holzer (MPA '67) has been selected by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) and the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) as the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Service Award. This...

Dina Ufberg, a member of the first class of Ford School BA students, was awarded one of ten Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships through the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Dina will spend the 2009-2010 academic year at a school of higher...

Annie Maxwell (MPP '02) was one of 15 announced today as 2009–2010 White House Fellows. Selection as a White House Fellow is highly competitive and based on a record of remarkable professional achievement early in one's career, evidence of...

Josh Brammer (MPP '09)DETROIT – Forbes magazine may have branded Detroit "America's most miserable city" in 2008, but the city has its share of strengths as well as problems.An increasing number of healthcare and film industry jobs have come to the...

In the 2007–08 academic year, the Ford School offered two practicum classes, linking MPP students with local clients to allow students to put their skills to the test with real-world policy work. The Ford School added practicum electives to its MPP...

Once the capital of the industrial world, Detroit has for the past four decades become one of the nation's pre-eminent symbols of urban decline. Globalization, deindustrialization and "white flight" ravaged once-proud neighborhoods and turned much...

There was a time not too long ago when major U.S. banks simply refused to extend loans into many poor urban and rural areas of America. If one wanted, for instance, to build a new shopping center or a movie theater in parts of Harlem or the South...