The University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy is launching a new Center for Racial Justice designed to expand knowledge about the complex intersections between race and public policy and create a community of leaders, scholars and students...
By David Pratt
Paula Lantz completes remarkable term as associate dean
Diversity, equity, and inclusion. Curricular overhaul and creation of a new master’s program. A leadership initiative. Helping students, faculty, and staff through a...
This spring, the Ford School finishes the implementation of our 5-year strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), launched in 2016 in concert with a University-wide set of coordinated DEI plans. This summer we will develop strategic...
Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School
Diversifying what and how we teach
The Ford School launched a new predoctoral program — in partnership with a consortium of leading policy schools — that...
Eight new University of Michigan faculty positions have been selected for funding in the first round of hires that will be a part of the Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative.
One of those new hires will be at the Ford School, with a focus on...
Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School
Diversifying what and how we teach
Morela Hernandez adds leadership and diversity expertise to Ford School faculty. The University of Michigan Regents...
Earlier today, the University of Michigan Regents approved the appointment of Morela Hernandez as professor of public policy with tenure at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, effective August 31, 2021. She will also hold a collegiate chair...
Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School
Diversifying what and how we teach
Parthasarathy profiled: why we need to diversify expertise. In a Public Books Public Thinker profile, Shobita...
New Ford School sociologist Celeste Watkins-Hayes works at the intersection of inequality, public policy, and institutions, with a special focus on urban poverty and race, class, and gender studies. Her most recent book Remaking a Life: How Women...
Ford School students engaged in real problem-solving in the fall 2020 semester, tackling some of the most important issues facing Michigan. The undergraduate and graduate students participated in research and analysis projects as a part of the...
By Rebecca Cohen (MPP ‘09)
There are more than 3 trillion Google search results for “leadership.” Articles about the “7 leadership mistakes you’re probably making” and “Why You Can’t Teach Leadership” and “11 leadership characteristics”...
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...
Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School
Diversifying what and how we teach
Based on a generous gift from Hal and Carol Kohn and the Kohn Charitable Trust, the Ford School will establish...
Updates regarding faculty, staff, and student DEI-related activity at the Ford School
Diversifying what and how we teach
The Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) awarded the Ford School its 2020...
Today the University of Michigan Regents approved the appointment of professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes as the Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy for a five-year renewable term.
The Fairfax Collegiate Professorship was established...
In honor of Juneteenth, please join the Ford School's Center for Racial Justice and DEI team for a virtual workshop facilitated by Professor Angelique M. Davis and Dr. Rose Ernst on racial gaslighting.
Racism is a multifaceted, interconnected, and fundamental cause of racialized health inequities. As such, racism impacts who gets sick, who dies, and who is able to live healthy. In this talk Dr. Pirtle will overview interventions of her empirical research, informed by critical race theory, that utilizes multidimensional measures of race and structural measures of racism to explore health outcomes for Black, Latinx, and other populations of color.
University of Michigan Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium
Join New York Times journalist and author Rachel Swarns as she discusses her book The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold To Build the American Catholic Church, a story of servitude and slavery spanning nearly two centuries and detailing the beginnings of Georgetown University and the U.S. Catholic Church. Swarns's journalism started a national conversation about universities with ties to slavery.
Join the Center for Racial Justice in welcoming Dr. Angela S García, immigration scholar and associate professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, for a virtual workshop on administrative justice. This event is the first of the CRJ's winter 2024 Racial Justice in Practice workshop series.
Join your fellow Ford Students for CommuniTea! A student-led series of informal, bi-weekly gatherings held in Weill Hall, focusing on key topics of interest to our community
Join us for CommuniTea! A student-led series of informal, bi-weekly gatherings held in Weill Hall, focusing on key topics of interest to our community.
We're excited to introduce CommuniTea, a student-led series of informal, bi-weekly gatherings held in Weill Hall, focusing on key topics of interest to our community.
Policy Talks @ the Ford School,
Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture Series
Join us for a discussion of our DEI priorities for the interim period between the 5-year strategic plan that wrapped up this year and the U-M's next DEI strategic plan, which will be launched in 2023.
Join us for a conversation with Penny Naas (MPP '93) about key issues in government and business, including diversity, the relationships between the regulated and the regulators, and environmental sustainability.
