Since the implementation of the governor’s stay at home order, Ann Arbor’s vehicle traffic has declined markedly. Ann Arbor city council members may consider vehicle street closures in an effort to expand space available for pedestrians and cyclists...
It’s becoming clear that more diagnostic testing is key for the U.S. to stop the spread of COVID-19, re-open the economy, and better manage the next epidemic. Shobita Parthasarathy, director of the Ford School of Public Policy's Science, Technology,...
Intellectual property, and patents, in particular, affect every level of society. Research interest in the area has expanded beyond just the legal community and now involves social scientists and humanists as well. In an article published on...
For all of us, adjusting to the new reality of staying home and staying safe means finding ways to stay educated and informed from afar. As we practice safe social distancing, the Ford School has postponed all in-person public events for the...
U.S. competitiveness in global research and development (R&D) is hampered by political bias and a lack of diversity, according to Ford School professor Shobita Parthasarathy. She spoke at a February 25 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences,...
UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY
Focus on our goal: Promoting an Equitable and Inclusive Climate
2019-2020 DEI Coalition. In partnership with the Rackham Graduate School, each graduate program is asked to...
Professor Paula Lantz contributed her expertise to a recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus report that informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publication Leading Health...
UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY
Focus on our goal: Promoting an Equitable and Inclusive Climate
During the January faculty meeting, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Paula Lantz, and DEI Officer,...
Following her public event at the Ford School this past Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ambassador Susan Rice sat down with 20 Ford School students to discuss her career and leadership experiences working for the U.S. government. Students from...
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Ford School hosted Ambassador Susan Rice, former United Nations Ambassador and former U.S. National Security Advisor, for a conversation with Dean Michael S. Barr on her new memoir Tough Love: My Story of the...
UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY
Focus on our goal: Promoting an Equitable and Inclusive Climate
2019-2020 DEI Coalition. The Ford School DEI Coalition met on December 6. The Coalition reviewed DEI related...
UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY
Focus on our goal: Diversifying who we are
Sponsored by Students of Color in Public Policy (SCPP), the Pipeline Initiative aims to help prospective students navigate the...
Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant on gender wage discrimination
The gender pay gap is notoriously alive and well, decades after women entered the workforce in large numbers. Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant explored this issue together many times over...
In December 1977, at the annual party of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (IPPS), a young graduate student named James McIntire (MPP ’78) found himself chatting with the Institute’s director, the political scientist Jack L. Walker, Jr.
Out...
“I want to use my money, not to change my lifestyle, but to change the world,” says James Hudak, MPP ’71. “And I believe that education is the way.”
“Most Ford School graduates work in the public sector,” Hudak continues, “and do not make a lot...
Between mid-April and early August, Kazu Shibuya (MPP ’88) had already made nine trips from Tokyo to Washington D.C. and he was getting ready for his tenth. It is what his role as deputy minister and leading negotiator for the government of Japan...
Sue Dynarski’s research is cited in a recent Inside Higher Ed analysis of an initiative that expanded access to the SAT for low-income, first-generation, and minority students.
2019 marked the highest number of SAT test-takers to date: 2.2...
UPDATES REGARDING FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT DEI-RELATED ACTIVITY
Promoting an Equitable and Inclusive Climate
2019-2020 DEI Coalition
The first meeting of the Ford School DEI Coalition was Friday, October 25. The Coalition reviewed the...
Five Ford School faculty are among the thirty-six University of Michigan faculty members who will be honored on October 30 at the annual Faculty Awards Dinner, which recognizes notable contributions in the areas of teaching, service and...