Gerald R Ford

Honoring the legacy of President Ford, Kathleen Bryant (MPP ‘25) and previous fellows exemplify the president’s commitment to bipartisan cooperation and civility, community service, and public sector service. Each year, the Gerald R. Ford...

The Michigan Heritage Project has examined the legacy of President Gerald Ford's stint as a professor at the University of Michigan.   The full article can be read here. (Additional articles about the Ford legacy can be seen on the Ford School...

For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton...

The Ford School mourns the loss of former dean Rebecca M. Blank, an economist and educator who served in high-level U.S. government and academic positions. Her tenure as dean from 1999-2007 was transformational: the school was officially named after...

“Becky Blank put the Ford School on the map, literally. We – all of us who learn and teach and work here, and our alumni who are out there making communities better – WE are the house that Becky built.”  So began Ford School interim dean Celeste...

In December 1977, at the annual party of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (IPPS), a young graduate student named James McIntire (MPP ’78) found himself chatting with the Institute’s director, the political scientist Jack L. Walker, Jr. Out...

The Ford School community has been enriched by our connections with President Ford. His name is symbolic of those things we most want our students to learn: a commitment to the common good and to the effective design and implementation of policy....