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Save the date for the fifth annual Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day at a city near you

May 26, 2015

The fifth annual Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day will be held on Thursday, July 9 in a dozen domestic and international cities. We’ll send out invitations with more details soon, but for now, we’re happy to announce that alumni-led Spirit Day...

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Detroit 2016, welcome our next David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellows

May 26, 2015

The David Bohnett Foundation Leadership and Public Service Fellowship, launched in 2010 with a gift from the foundation of U-M alumnus David Bohnett (MBA ’80), is a competitive award that enables Ford School students to apply their policy training...

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Barry Rabe talks to Inside Energy as North Dakota seeks to lower oil severance taxes

May 4, 2015

Barry Rabe, who was traveling through North Dakota for ongoing research on state energy taxes in the shale era, was interviewed by Emily Guerin for “Inside Energy: North Dakota oil taxes.” The story, which aired on Prairie Public Radio on May 4,...

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Hausman examines economic impacts of recent shale gas boom in Brookings paper

Mar 23, 2015

Welfare and distributional implications of shale gas, a paper by Catie Hausman, provides the first estimates of broad-scale welfare and distributional implications of the recent shale gas boom. The report, coauthored with U-M economics professor...

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U.S. News and World Report re-issues grad school rankings

Mar 10, 2015

According to re-released rankings from U.S. News and World Report, the Ford School is tied with Harvard's Kennedy School for the #1 ranking in "social policy" among U.S. schools of public affairs. The school is also ranked third in "public policy...

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CLOSUP survey findings on state of Michigan roads cited in AP, Free Press stories

Feb 24, 2015

A recent CLOSUP report presenting the opinions of Michigan local government leaders on the state of roads was cited by the Associated Press, Detroit Free Press, and other media outlets. Most of the media coverage focused on the fact that while 79...

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Levitsky quoted in International Business Times article on Ukraine ceasefire agreement

Feb 13, 2015

Mel Levitsky was quoted in an International Business Times story on the recently negotiated cease-fire between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists. While both sides gave concessions to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine, reporter Dennis Lynch...

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Michigan Daily cites CLOSUP survey findings in discussion of Clean Power Act

Jan 29, 2015

Findings from a CLOSUP public opinion survey served as the basis for a Michigan Daily story published yesterday that discussed the implications of the Clean Power Plan and its potential impact on Michigan. In “Survey finds support for federal...

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Barry Rabe and recent CLOSUP survey cited in Christian Science Monitor

Jan 24, 2015

2015 is shaping up to be a decisive year for U.S. energy and climate policy, according to a recent Christian Science Monitor article, “What are Republicans going to do about climate change.” While the 2016 presidential election is still nearly two...

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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...

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State Representative Stephanie Chang (MPP/MSW '14) featured in Hour Detroit

Jan 5, 2015

As Stephanie Gray-Chang (MPP/MSW ‘14) makes history as the first Asian American woman to serve in the Michigan legislature (State Representative, Southwestern Detroit District 6), she’s spotlighted in the January 2015 Hour Detroit story, “Advocacy...

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Whitman's latest Freep op-ed: economy is looking up, but not by much

Dec 19, 2014

Marina v.N. Whitman was featured in the December 13 edition of the Detroit Free Press as a Guest Writer. Her article, “The economy, looking up, but not by much,” analyzes the modest economic steps that Detroit, Michigan, and the United States have...

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2015 Charity Auction to benefit Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan

Dec 2, 2014

When Maab Ibrahim (MPP/MBA ’16) made the surprise announcement that Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan had been selected as the beneficiary of the annual Ford School Charity Auction, it couldn’t have come at a better time. Danielle...

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Detroit News covers CLOSUP privatization survey

Nov 24, 2014

Results from a recent survey released by the Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) served as the basis for a Detroit News editorial advocating that municipalities continue to turn to privatization and intergovernmental...

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In the news, Robert Axelrod wins National Medal of Science

Nov 20, 2014

“Why do we choose to cooperate and how can we promote greater cooperation in world affairs? These are the questions that Robert Axelrod has pursued for more than 40 years.” So begins Eric M. Johnson’s deep Q&A with National Medal of Science...

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As Detroit bankruptcy wins federal judge approval, a summary of Ford School engagement

Nov 7, 2014

As the Detroit bankruptcy agreement wins federal judge approval, we’re sharing a quick roundup of stories highlighting the Ford School’s engagement. In July of 2013, just after the bankruptcy filing was announced, BBC Radio interviewed Tom...

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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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Kary Moss on Detroit water shutoffs

Oct 22, 2014

Kary Moss speaks on the Detroit water shutoffs in Henry Gass’s “Do Detroit's water shutoffs violate international law? UN to investigate,” posted in the Christian Science Monitor on October 17. The United Nations visited Detroit last weekend to...

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Atran speaks with “On Being” about the search for identity among youth in extremist cultures

Oct 20, 2014

Scott Atran discusses “the human dynamics of what we analyze as ‘breeding grounds for terrorism’” in “Hopes and Dreams in a World of Fear,” the October 16 episode of On Being with Krista Tippett. Atran contends that the fight for the world lies in...

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For better or worse, Michigan's fiscal health post-recession

Oct 2, 2014

For the first time in six years, more Michigan communities report that they are better able to meet their fiscal needs this year than those who say they are less able to do...

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Education Policy Initiative studies Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction

Sep 26, 2014

A current Education Policy Initiative study is the topic of the September 26 MLive article by Roberto Acosta, “University of Michigan studies reading system that Flushing woman created; state officials interested in results.” The system is...

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Forthcoming CLOSUP oil, gas tax study highlighted in U.S. News & World Report

Sep 15, 2014

“States are charging less and less to allow oil and gas companies to drill more and more,” writes Alan Neuhauser in the September 9, U.S. News & World Report article, “As oil and gas boom, energy taxes fall.” The piece refers to a forthcoming report...

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Proximity to Great Lakes a key factor in local officials' views

Sep 4, 2014

By Greta Guest ANN ARBOR—Nearly all of Michigan's local leaders see the Great Lakes as a valuable economic resource for the state, but some don't see it that way for their own jurisdictions, according to a survey by the University of Michigan's...

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Welcome week for new students

Aug 22, 2014

They’ve ordered their Mcards, registered for classes, submitted their student bios, and done a dozen other things to prepare for their studies. But the week before school starts, all new public policy degree candidates come to the Ford School to...

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Professional Development Fund helps jumpstart careers

Aug 14, 2014

With valuable educational opportunities beckoning in cities near and far, Ford School students benefit from supplemental funding that allows them to take advantage of career-enhancing programs. Every year the school sponsors 10-15 such students...

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Carbon tax might work, if revenue funds renewables

Jul 23, 2014

A July 21 report released by Barry Rabe, director of the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), and collaborators at the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, "Public Views on a Carbon Tax Depend on the Proposed Use of...

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New interstate pipeline proposed near old pipeline-rupture site

Jul 2, 2014

"The wild grass is only now beginning to hide the scar left by the giant ditch digger that gouged a trench though Ron Kardos' Oceola Township, Mich., pasture last year for an oil pipeline - but already Kardos is preparing for another onslaught of...

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Hausman in VoxEU on energy

Jun 30, 2014

"Estimating the economic value of energy transmission is difficult," writes Catherine Hausman in a June 16 article for VoxEU, a Centre for Economic Policy Research publication funded by the European Union that promotes research-based policy analysis...

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Rabe cited in Forbes on EPA greenhouse gas rules

Jun 3, 2014

Ford School Professor Barry Rabe was cited in Howard Gleckman's June 2 Forbes article "Could EPA's New Greenhouse Gas Rule Open the Door to a New State-based Gas Tax?" "The proposed EPA rules, which Brookings senior fellow Barry Rabe describes as...

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Celebrating Ned Gramlich: The Tribute Video

Jun 2, 2014

In 2007, the Urban Institute and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy teamed up to create a video for Ned Gramlich, founding dean of our school and a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. Ned was battling a life-threatening illness, and the video...