first-generation students

Detroit 2017, welcome our next David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellows

Jul 22, 2016

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...

Brenda Duverce (MPP ’16) named one of 30 Top Thinkers Under 30 by Pacific Standard

Mar 14, 2016

Last week, Pacific Standard magazine profiled Ford School master’s student Brenda Duverce (MPP ’16) as one of the "30 Top Thinkers Under 30."The profile highlights her path to graduate school and her experiences as a Fulbright scholar, Department of...

Susan Dynarski: Giving Back to Other First Generation College Students

Sep 20, 2016 0:04:20

Once, she was a first-generation college student from a working-class suburb of Boston. Now, she is an internationally renowned professor of education policy with the ear of the White House.