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Greetings from the Dean - The Briefing, December 2020

Dec 3, 2020

Dear friends, As the year comes to a close, we often reflect on challenges and successes. This year has been fraught with significant challenges, and for many in our community and around the world, devastating losses from the global pandemic....

Michael Barr in Weill Hall, masked for COVID-19

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Annual career trip goes global: January Graduate Student Career Expo and networking event expands career opportunities for students

Dec 2, 2020

RSVP for the trivia and networking event on January 13! For more than 25 years, the Ford School’s annual DC trip has inspired first and second year graduate students to explore careers, clarify goals, and make connections. Like so many other...

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Ford School welcomes four new Committee members

Dec 2, 2020

The Ford School is pleased to announce that four distinguished, dynamic leaders have joined our Committee, the school’s external advisory group. The new members are Dudley Benoit (MPP ‘95), executive vice president for Alliant Capital, Ltd.;...

A 4up grid of photos of Dudley Benoit, Broderick Johnson, Annie Maxwell, and Hardy Vieux at Ford School events

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Experiential learning opportunities expand for students of foreign policy

Dec 2, 2020

Since its launch in 2019, the Weiser Diplomacy Center (WDC) has sought to develop new practical student training opportunities in foreign affairs. One key element is to expand the Ford School’s menu of international policy simulations. “Reading...

Zoom grid of attendees at a virtual international policy simulation event

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MDHHS and Youth Policy Lab announce selection of agencies to participate in evaluation of Maternal Infant Health Program

Dec 1, 2020

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the Youth Policy Lab have announced the selection of 11 provider agencies to participate in a rigorous impact evaluation of Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP), the...

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December 2020: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Ford School

Dec 1, 2020

Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School Diversifying what and how we teach Ford School professor of Economics, Betsey Stevenson, speaks on three reasons companies are now showing support for...

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Michigan Education Data Center an invaluable tool for research

Dec 1, 2020

Does waiting a year to start kindergarten lead to better academic outcomes? How does participation in summer youth employment impact high school graduation and college enrollment? What career pathways are students pursuing? Researchers from...

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Ford School Alumni step up to the giving challenge in difficult times

Nov 30, 2020

The Ford School launched the Alumni Giving Challenge in summer 2019, with members of the Ford School Committee offering $50,000 in challenge funds. Despite an especially trying year, alumni stepped up to the challenge with incredible support for the...

Dean Barr and Ford School alums speak in person prior to COVID-19

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Stevenson highlights disproportionate impact of the pandemic and recession on women, mothers

Nov 24, 2020

Ford School professor Betsey Stevenson's analysis on the disproportionate toll the COVID-19 recession has had on women and mothers in the U.S. has been widely cited. As the debate continues about the potential for another economic stimulus package,...

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Ciorciari supports U-M Law alum charged in Cambodia crackdown

Nov 24, 2020

University of Michigan Law School alum Theary Seng cut her hair live on Radio Free Asia this past Thursday. It was not for fashion but convenience: should she go to jail the next week, she wanted to be prepared to deal with lice. Seng is a...

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Majority of Detroiters say they’re unlikely to get COVID-19 vaccine, U-M survey says

Nov 23, 2020

Sixty-one percent of Detroiters say they are somewhat unlikely or very unlikely to get a government-approved COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, according to the latest survey from the University of Michigan’s Detroit Metro Area...

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Harris joins Ford School colleagues on Biden-Harris transition

Nov 20, 2020

Ford School professor of practice and Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Adrienne Harris has been named to a Biden-Harris transition Agency Review Team, focusing on the Federal Reserve, Banking and Securities Regulators group includes the...

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Hampshire receives PIT-UN challenge grant to create knowledge network, expand student opportunities

Nov 20, 2020

The field of Public Interest Technology is growing — putting technology to the use of social justice, the common good, and the public interest. Ford School professor Robert Hampshire has just received his second grant from the Public Interest...

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Ali joins former national security officials in call for recognition of Biden win

Nov 13, 2020

Any delay in giving the incoming Biden administration access to the President’s Daily Brief and other national security information and resources compromises the nation’s safety, according to a letter written to Emily Murphy, the Administrator of...

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Lantz named to National Academy of Social Insurance COVID-19 Task Force

Nov 13, 2020

The National Academy of Social Insurance has named Ford School associate dean for academic affairs Paula Lantz to its COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Task Force Epidemiology Working Group. The task force will examine the potential impacts of the...

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Public Interest Technology gets a boost with challenge grant for the Ford School and computer science

Nov 13, 2020

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program has received a challenge grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), which will contribute to its “Rethinking Computer Science Education: Bringing Public Interest...

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Parthasarathy addresses relationship between politics and science in Nature podcast series

Nov 12, 2020

A three-part podcast series by Nature explores the intimate relationship between politics and science. The series, ‘Stick to the science’: when science gets political aims to look at why a journal of science needs to address politics. Shobita...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

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Barr, Stevenson, Harris and McQuade to assist Biden-Harris transition

Nov 12, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped three University of Michigan faculty members to help review the operations of federal agencies as part of his transition team. Michael Barr, dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Betsey...

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The presidential transition and the first hundred days of the Biden administration - Experts advisory

Nov 11, 2020

Contact: Daniel Rivkin, [email protected], +1-917-817-6323 ANN ARBOR — Experts at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan are available to discuss the 2020 vote, the presidential transition process, and the policy...

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PPIA innovates as it heads to its 40th year

Nov 9, 2020

The Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) is entering its 40th year after a summer of adjustment and innovation. The intensive seven-week summer program focuses on preparing diverse undergraduate students for...

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Ford School announces plans for Winter 2021

Nov 9, 2020

A letter from Ford School Dean Michael Barr: Dear Ford School community, By now you've seen the message from President Schlissel earlier today, announcing the University's plans for Winter semester. University leaders have learned from the...

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Swing state: Michigan voters critical to presidential, U.S. Senate race outcomes

Nov 3, 2020

Faculty Q&A by Michigan News The country will pay close attention to what happens on Election Day in Michigan, where voters in this battleground state could determine the outcome of the presidential race and who represents them in the U.S....

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As part of NAPA working group, Rabe proposed climate action plan for the 2021 Administration

Nov 2, 2020

As part of a nine-member National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Working Group, Barry Rabe recommended near-time actions to address climate change to the next Administration. The group’s Steward Natural Resources and Address Climate Change...

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Positive GDP growth numbers won’t boost Trump’s reelection argument - Barr and Wolfers

Oct 30, 2020

News released Thursday that the U.S. third quarter GDP growth rate was 7.4%, or a record annualized rate of 33.1%, will not provide President Trump with a bounce in his support as the election nears, according to Ford School Dean Michael Barr and...

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Ford School Dean Barr shares insights on election, economy and Supreme Court

Oct 29, 2020

For Ford School dean Michael S. Barr insights into the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government are more than academic: He served in two presidential administrations and was a law clerk for a Supreme Court justice. Barr, a key...

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Michigan Votes - Ford School faculty experts available

Oct 29, 2020

Contact: Daniel Rivkin, [email protected], +1-917-817-6323 Michigan Votes! ANN ARBOR — Experts at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan are available to discuss the election process and results in Michigan...

Side by side photos of Donald Trump and Joe Biden

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Dynarski examines cost-effective ways to improve global learning on Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel

Oct 28, 2020

A report released by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) looks at “the best investments to improve the quality and take-up of education in developing countries, as the world faces a learning crisis, with the coronavirus pandemic...

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Michigan local leaders trust their local democratic institutions far more than those at state or federal levels

Oct 27, 2020

The political adage is that “All politics are local.” The same could be said of how local leaders feel about the health of democratic governance. That is according to a report on Michigan’s local leaders released today by the Center for Local,...

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Third annual Ford School pitch competition focuses on financial inclusion and inequity during summer internships

Oct 27, 2020

Financial inclusion and inequity were focuses of the third annual pitch competition, at which 12 Ford School BA and Masters students presented about their summer internship experiences. Those experiences were online in 2020 because of the COVID-19...

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Barr and Harris call for more inclusive payments systems

Oct 26, 2020

Ford School Dean Michael Barr and professor of practice Adrienne Harris say the technologies of the “payments revolution,” which enable people to make payments and access bank accounts more easily, can also lead to greater financial...