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Barry Rabe on Gerald Ford: The global president

Apr 26, 2012
The University of Michigan invited Professor Barry Rabe to address the 89th Honors Convocation of the University, an event that celebrates and recognizes outstanding academic achievement by undergraduates. The theme of this year's Convocation:...
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Staging a comeback

Apr 26, 2012
"I believe Detroit is too big to fail. We must bail out Main Street, and so we need an all-hands-on-deck approach to help us turn the city around," said an impassioned community activist at a Detroit Financial Review Board meeting in March. The...
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Starting over

Apr 26, 2012
Japan has known earthquakes—the Great Kanto quake of 1923, the Great Hanshin quake of 1995, the Fukui quake of 1948, and hundreds of others—but Japan had never known an earthquake like the 9.0 Tohoku quake that struck just off the northeast coast...
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A different perspective

Apr 26, 2012
Katharine D'Hondt (BA '12) wants to help you find a job. Not you, specifically, unless you've just graduated and have an interest in federal service. An intern in the U-M's Michigan in Washington Program (MIW) in fall 2011, D'Hondt's research paper...
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Internships shape recent BA student's career in campaigns

Apr 26, 2012
Up by 6 a.m. scanning newspapers and listening to TV news anchors, Brian Wanglin's mornings haven't changed much from his days as an intern. And he couldn't be happier. "I knew that after college I wanted to work on campaigns," said Wanglin (BA...
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Gerrymandering, then and now

Apr 26, 2012
It was the summer of 1971 when the first mandated round of redistricting was taking place across the nation. A series of Supreme Court decisions in the '60s had directed states to create new legislative districts every ten years to reflect...
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Ten Years After No Child Left Behind

Jan 5, 2012
Two alums reflect on school accountability President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced a new waiver system in September, the latest attempt to alleviate the burden felt by the 20 percent of schools labeled...
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From the Great Hall to the Great Wall

Jan 5, 2012
New course takes students and faculty to China to study contemporary policy Ford School Assistant Professor Philip Potter developed a new course last spring that introduced MPP students to contemporary Chinese public policy in a rather...
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On the front lines

Jan 5, 2012
Teach for America a destination for service-minded Ford School undergraduates Elam Lantz entered the Ford School with an eye on the biggest of policymaking stages, Washington, DC. But he soon reassessed his approach to making the world a better...
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Joint PhD Program Reaches Ten Year Mark

Jan 5, 2012
Founding director Mary E. Corcoran and others reflect on the program's success When Mary E. Corcoran became program director of the Ford School's fledgling joint doctoral program 10 years ago, she didn't have a problem recruiting...
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Public Service In The City

Jan 5, 2012
Bohnett Fellows learn to devise policy inside Detroit mayor's office Elizabeth Palazzola and Julie Schneider knew Detroit pretty well even before last summer. Then they learned a whole new side of it—the inside—as members of Mayor Dave Bing's...
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To the city and the world

Jan 5, 2012
Los Angeles-based David Bohnett is the founder and managing member of the early stage technology fund, Baroda Ventures. In 1994, he founded GeoCities.com, one of the original Internet success stories. He is chairman of the board of the Los Angeles...
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PPIA: 30 Years of Preparing Leaders

Jan 5, 2012
Bright, energetic, and compassionate, Tosha Downey—one of more than 4,000 graduates of the national Public Policy and International Affairs program—is deeply engaged in Chicago's south side renaissance, and in dramatically improving educational...
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Waiting for Superman, the sequel

Jan 5, 2012
Whether we believe in charter schools or harbor our reservations, the fact remains that they're a vital part of our nation's education landscape. Today, some 5,000 charters across America enroll 1.6 million children, and those numbers are increasing...
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America Unequal

Jan 5, 2012
The Last Word Distinguished University Professor Sheldon H. Danziger is one of the nation's foremost experts on poverty and inequality. He has led the National Poverty Center (NPC) since 2002. S&H: Tell us about the NPC's Michigan Recession...
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Military Minds

Dec 19, 2011
With the last of U.S. troops exiting Iraq after nearly nine years, many veterans will be coming home and taking on new challenges—some, perhaps, in public policy. Earlier this semester, State & Hill spoke with a group of veterans in the MPP and MPA...
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Please send your Class Notes for the next State & Hill

Sep 6, 2011
The next edition of the Ford School's magazine, State & Hill, is in progress and we want to include your good news in the Class Notes section. If you have news (new job, promotion, award, new baby, recently married, etc.) to share with your...
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Nearly $14,000 raised during 2011 Class Giving Campaign

Apr 27, 2011
The 2011 Class Giving Campaign—"One Ford. One Community. One Pledge." —has ended with tremendous results, raising a total of $13,903 for the Graduate and Undergraduate Annual Funds. Nearly 76 percent of graduating MPP/MPA students participated in...
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Undergrad covers big-time sports between Ford School classes

Apr 26, 2011
Writing concise policy memos was no sweat for Nicole Auerbach (BA '11), who covered U-M basketball, hockey and, in 2010, football for the Michigan Daily during her undergraduate career. Auerbach has interned at USA Today and freelanced for the Wall...
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Accounting for growth

Apr 26, 2011
Susan M. Collins and co-author Barry P. Bosworth, both senior fellows at the DC-based Brookings Institution, will release an update to their widely used growth accounts this spring. The data allow students, researchers, and policy analysts to...
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Michigander finds new reasons to love Detroit

Apr 26, 2011
Last summer, life-long Michigander Mynti Hossain (MPP '11) won a competitive internship with the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC). The Ford School's longstanding partnerships with DEGC and other Motor City nonproft and government groups...
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PhD student 'becomes the demand'

Apr 26, 2011
Understanding labor patterns in rural Malawi Jessica Goldberg understands the precepts of labor economics well enough to know when something doesn't seem right. "I see things all the time in Malawi where I observe someone's behavior and I...
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Economist Jan Svejnar advises post-Soviet Bloc countries

Apr 26, 2011
Professor Jan Svejnar, the son of a prominent development economist, was forced to fee his home when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. Svejnar, who lived through the rise of the Berlin Wall, and its undoing, is now an internationally...