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Ali: Trump’s use of DHS for political agenda weakens national security

Jul 22, 2020

Ford School Towsley Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali argues in an opinion piece in Newsweek July 22 that the deployment of personnel from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Portland, Oregon, rightly has caused widespread concern and...

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Ostfeld brings insight into attitudes about race, media and politics to the Ford School

Jul 21, 2020

Mara Ostfeld joins the Ford School of Public Policy as faculty by courtesy, adding to her faculty roles at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research and at LSA Political Science. It is a return to the Ford School for...

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Local leaders' mixed messages and fading outlook in annual Michigan Public Policy Survey

Jul 20, 2020

Michigan local government officials’ attitudes about the direction of the state, and the performances of the governor and the legislature have improved from last year, but remain more negative than positive. The 2020 Michigan Public Policy Survey...

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Research on voting by mail says it’s safe – from fraud and disease - Goldenberg

Jul 20, 2020

Ford School professor and national voting rights advocate Edie Goldenberg made a strong argument for the safety of mail-in voting in an essay in The Conversation July 16. “The evidence finds that voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does...

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“Promise Kept” on Trump tariff threat - Deardorff

Jul 20, 2020

Alan Deardorff, Ford School professor and one of the world’s leading experts on international trade policy, was referenced in a Politifact “Trump-O-Meter” fact-check of Trump Administration policy promises. The stated policy: “Any country that...

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Ford School PhD Phoenix receives Ralph J. Bunche Award

Jul 20, 2020

Ford School graduate Davin Phoenix (PhD, U-M Political Science and Ford School, 2015) has just won APSA's Ralph J. Bunche award for his 2019 book, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotions in Politics (Cambridge University Press). The award goes to...

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Rabe lauds the Great American Outdoors Act

Jul 20, 2020

Ford School professor of Environmental Policy Barry Rabe writes in an essay for the Niskanen Center July 16 that” the recent Senate passage of the Great American Outdoors Act–buoyed with overwhelming bipartisan support–is a remarkable achievement in...

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Some Detroit suburbs reckon with history as anti-Black ‘sundown towns’

Jul 20, 2020

An article in Bridge Detroit on July 9 looked at suburbanites engaging with the history and policies of their communities in the wake of Black Lives Matters demonstrations. Some of these suburbs were developed as anti-Black "sundown towns". Ford...

Among the houses in this residential neighborhood, a wall wall erected to segregate by race has been reclaimed and turned into a large community art project.

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Ford School expands education policy capabilities with the addition of Christina Weiland to faculty

Jul 20, 2020

Christina Weiland, associate professor in the School of Education, is joining the Ford School with a faculty appointment by courtesy. She expands and deepens the Ford School of Public Policy’s strength in education policy. She co-leads the...

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Bohnett fellows experience a summer of change and resilience in Detroit

Jul 19, 2020

Managing the fight against homelessness, creating employment opportunities, and reforming law enforcement in Detroit are complex issues at any time. Add an economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the increased activism of the Black...

Safiya Merchant, Kevin Naud, and Alyshia Dyer

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Combating poverty and inequality amidst a pandemic

Jul 19, 2020

Ford School Dean Michael S. Barr, Associate Dean and Poverty Solutions Director Luke Shaefer and Alford A. Young Jr., Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies and courtesy faculty at the Ford School, discussed some of the ways...

Luke Shaefer, Michael Barr, and Al Young

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Former Ford School Dean Susan Collins named University of Michigan Provost

Jul 16, 2020

At the July 16 meeting of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, Susan Collins, Ford School Dean from 2007-2017, was appointed the University of Michigan’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.. Her appointment is...

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Ford School community celebrates Spirit Day with a conversation about the Black Lives Matter and racial justice policy

Jul 16, 2020 Watch the event

This year’s Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day on July 9, gathered nearly 150 alumni, current students, faculty, and staff located across the country and as far away as New Zealand for a discussion to better understand and take action on issues of...

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Bednar adds depth in political science and politics to Ford School offerings

Jul 16, 2020

The Ford School is pleased to announce that political scientist Jenna Bednar will be joining the faculty as a professor of public policy with tenure. Bednar is also a professor of political science, as well as a research professor with the Center...

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Research looks at COVID-19 response around the world

Jul 10, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is affecting an unprecedented number of people at the same time. As the pandemic evolved in April and May, a group of researchers, including Ford School professor Ann Lin, undertook a survey in over a dozen locations around the...

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IES Grant Supports Doctoral Student Training in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research

Jul 10, 2020

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in the U.S. Department of Education has renewed a 5-year, $4.6 million grant to support the University of Michigan's Education Policy Initiative Training Program in Causal Inference in Education Policy...

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Making sense of the complex unemployment numbers

Jul 10, 2020

On July 2nd, the Labor Department reported that 4.8 million jobs had been added, and unemployment stood at 11% - still higher than it was at the peak of the Great Recession in 2008 — with 17.8 million Americans still out of work. Ford School...

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Ali insights into national security highlighted

Jul 10, 2020

Ford School Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali has been in the press recently commenting on a range of national security issues that have been in the news, including the president’s daily briefing and the cross-border tensions...

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Congratulations to Celeste Watkins-Hayes for two ASA awards!

Jul 9, 2020

Newly-appointed Ford School collegiate professor of public policy Celeste Watkins-Hayes has received two awards from the American Sociological Association for her book Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality (2019,...

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COVID-19 survey work builds on U-M researcher's projects in Mozambique

Jul 9, 2020

In more than a decade of work on diverse projects in the African nation of Mozambique, University of Michigan researcher Dean Yang sees a common theme: The importance of social connections in attitudes and actions affecting lives and...

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U-M awards grants to address poverty, impact of COVID-19 across Midwest

Jul 9, 2020

The Midwest Mobility from Poverty Network, led by Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, awarded six grants totaling $150,000 for projects to improve economic mobility and address the impact of COVID-19 throughout the Midwest. The grant...

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Dean Michael Barr addresses International Students

Jul 8, 2020

International students are full members of our Ford School community. We support efforts by the University of Michigan and other schools to reverse or substantially change the short-sighted, egregious policy announced yesterday by the U.S....

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"Planet Money Summer School " features Stevenson and Wolfers

Jul 7, 2020

Planet Money, the irreverent and informative NPR podcast, is convening a Summer School starting on July 8, “turning it's podcast feed into a classroom for the masses, for anyone who wants to see the world through the lens of an economist.” Ford...

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Alemu argues that “Solidarity is not acknowledging your white privilege, but relinquishing it”

Jul 7, 2020

Ford School PhD candidate Matthew Alemu (MPP '09) says that while he appreciates support from white friends when racist incidents occur, something deeper needs to occur. In an opinion piece in the Detroit Free Press on July 7, he notes that...

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Dodd-Frank achievements assessed on its 10th anniversary

Jul 2, 2020

The Center on Finance, Law and Policy co-hosted a day-long conference with the Brookings Institution on June 30 to mark the Dodd-Frank Act 10th Anniversary. Former Senator Chris Dodd and former Representative Barney Frank participated, as did...

Politicians gather around President Obama as he signs the Dodd Frank Act

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Democracy & Debate Theme Semester launches

Jul 2, 2020

This week marks the launch of the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester, a unique opportunity for teaching and learning about free speech and the exchange of ideas, democratic engagement from a global perspective and what it means to be a member of a...

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Stevenson comments on lagging summer job creation lags, effect of expanded earned income tax credit

Jul 1, 2020

Ford School economics professor Betsey Stevenson was featured on NPR’s Marketplace, which noted that, “Summer has arrived; lots of summer jobs have not.” This year is going to be tough on people who work in travel, tourism and restaurants, which...

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Lowande comments on police force "militarization"

Jun 30, 2020

Kenneth Lowande, assistant professor of political science and a faculty by courtesy at the Ford School, is quoted in an article on Bridge June 29 that looks at the militarization of police forces around the state of Michigan. He has studied the...

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US has multiple options for responding to Russian actions - Ali

Jun 30, 2020

Towsley policymaker in residence Javed Ali, asserts that the latest reports about Russian intelligence officers offering bounties to the Taliban in Afghanistan to kill American soldiers need to be addressed in the larger context of Russia’s anti-US...

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June 2020 edition of ‘the Ford School feed’

Jun 30, 2020

Dear friends, I invite all of our alumni to join me for what promises to be a special and fitting Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day, next Thursday, July 9th at 4:00 pm EDT. It’s now been ten years since we launched Spirit Day. In years past, the...