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Alumni engagement by the numbers, State & Hill infographic

Nov 19, 2015
We love how active and engaged our Ford School alumni network is. More than 700 alumni found ways to engage with the Ford School and connect with students last year (July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015).   In the fall 2015 issue of State & Hill...
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Soundbites, overheard @ Ford School events

Apr 30, 2015
“For all the young people who want to go and do something, you should all go do something. And put your heart into it. And continue doing it.… [M]ost of the places that you might go to work, people don’t expect outsiders to go in and save some...
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Transforming transportation

Apr 27, 2015
Charles Henley (MPP ’00), Senior Manager, Capital Program Department, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Helps identify funding sources, and sets spending and investment priorities for the largest public transportation provider in...
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Class Notes

Apr 15, 2015
Jim Baker (MPA ’61) spent much of his career in developing countries and retired in 2006. His wife Fran has been a real estate agent for more than 30 years and will retire soon. They have been living in Potomac, MD and will relocate to Wilmington,...
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What good is history, anyway?

Dec 18, 2014
With public service in our DNA, what we’d really like to do is to peer into the future, to see and shape what’s coming around the bend. So we asked ourselves, ‘Can a deeper understanding of the past help to shape and inform the future?’ The myth...
What good is history, anyway?
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Policy analysis and prescience, making life better

Dec 18, 2014
To solve a vexing problem. To seize a promising opportunity. To find the best path forward. For centuries, for millennia, we’ve sought the power of prescience. These days, policy analysis—well and thoughtfully done—is among the most powerful tools...
Policy analysis and prescience, making life better
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The Power of Policy

Dec 17, 2014
Public policy is a principled guide to action, designed to lead to the greater good. As we celebrate our centennial as America’s first graduate-level training program in public administration, we take a moment to reflect on the powerful role policy...
The Power of Policy
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Fall edition of State & Hill examines the power of policy

Dec 13, 2014
In this issue of the Ford School’s magazine, State & Hill, articles highlight policy’s power in addressing important social challenges; next century teaching, research, and action at the Ford School; how a deeper understanding of the past is helping...
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Soundbites, overheard @ Ford School events

Dec 9, 2014
In the face of modern day challenges, from HIV/AIDS to climate change, we are better positioned than ever to help communities kindle change where it is most needed. Carrie Hessler-Radelet, director of the Peace Corps, “Peace Corps in the 21st...
Soundbites, overheard @ Ford School events
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On poverty, policy, and people: Sheldon Danziger's lasting legacy

Dec 9, 2014
Two wars dominated the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. One was the war in Vietnam, whose escalation in 1964 triggered more than a decade of combat in Southeast Asia and discontent at home. The other was a wide-ranging package of social legislation...
On poverty, policy, and people: Sheldon Danzinger's lasting legacy
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Alumni, then and now (the times have changed)

Dec 9, 2014
By Erin Spanier   In the 1950s, a half-dozen African nations had won their independence. In 1960, more than a dozen others followed. It wasn’t long before these new nation-states would send their top diplomats to Washington, DC to present their...
Alumni, then and now (the times have changed)
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Cities, where sustainability leadership begins

Dec 9, 2014
Matt Naud, environmental coordinator for the city of Ann Arbor, talks environmental innovation   Fourteen years ago, the City of Ann Arbor launched a new commission on the environment. The group would report annually on the state of the...
Cities, where sustainability leadership begins
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Measuring poverty, a more accurate picture

Dec 9, 2014
By Miriam Wasserman Jordan Matsudaira, PhD alum, stays second year to work as chief staff economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers Only a very small number of economists get to work for the Council of Economic Advisers....
Measuring poverty, a more accurate picture