The co-chairs of U-M's Year of Democracy, Civic Empowerment, & Global Engagement—Jenna Bednar, Rosario Ceballo, and Celeste Watkins-Hayes—provide an update to the campus community in this month's newsletter.Dear Michigan Community,As 2024 comes to a...
Dear Fordies, IPPSters, and friends,As I write, it’s been less than a week since the U.S. election and Fordies were deeply engaged in the process: knocking on doors, serving as poll workers, registering people to vote, and inspiring participation on...
As the 2024 elections approached, former governors Steve Bullock (D-MT) and John Kasich (R-OH) modeled speaking and listening across political and policy fault lines. The talk was organized by the Ford School with support from the University of...
Celebrated, Emmy Award-winning TV producer (Queer Eye), bestselling author, and host of the popular podcast Getting Curious, Jonathan Van Ness, who identifies as non-binary, has used their platform to champion a range of social issues close to their...
How did one unsubstantiated Facebook group post accusing Haitian immigrants of eating pets in Springfield, Ohio travel all the way to the Presidential debate stage and ultimately provoke bomb and death threats against innocent Ohio residents?...
The outcome of the presidential election has caught many by surprise and confirmed the suspicions of many others. It has led to celebrations for Republicans over the election of Donald Trump, as well as soul-searching for Democrats in light of the...
“It’s an unhappy race in an unhappy country” opened New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens, “each side of the country thinks that if the other half wins, it’s somehow, in one form or the other, the end of America.” A sense of gravity and...
Politico, E&E News, the Brookings Institution, and The Guardian have recently quoted the Ford School’s Barry Rabe's insights on the 2024 election campaigns regarding climate policy and the impacts on swing states like Michigan. Focusing on...
The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) has released a new resource that summarizes Michigan local government leaders' views on democracy and democratic governance. The findings come from the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), a...
The Ford School of Public Policy presents events, research, and ideas from faculty and other experts that shape our understanding of the people and issues that are influencing local, state, and federal 2024 elections. Read stories and watch video...
Ford School's Jenna Bednar spoke with The Associated Press on the influence Michigan has as a swing state in the upcoming elections. Bednar claimed, "We are truly a 50/50 state and it's 50/50 in terms of Democrats and Republicans but then even...
Former Montana Governor Steve Bullock (D) thinks the biggest problems with American politics can be traced to three fundamental factors: gerrymandering has drastically decreased the number of competitive districts, changes in the media environment...
Climate change is projected to cause 250,000 deaths per year from 2030 to 2050; its effects have already cost 3 trillion dollars and resulted in 100 million people falling into poverty worldwide. The Brookings Institution partnered with the Ford...
Ford School's Celia Fan shared findings from research on voter engagement with The Drumbeat. Fan attested to low levels of voter engagement through data showing "There were a few Detroiters who said that they weren’t sure about their voting plans...
In a major recent New York Times article, the Ford School’s Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers represented the center-left in a discussion on economics with center-right economic advisors from the Trump administration, Jay Clayton and Gary Cohn. In...
In a wide-ranging conversation, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate and Ford School Associate Professor of Practice Javed Ali spoke about the agency’s evolving role in safeguarding U.S. elections, how they have adapted to cyber-security threats, and the...
In a new pairing between the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy and U-M Museum of Art, students are learning how to develop human-centered experiences to guide public policy.This approach takes a step back from a traditional...
Five candidates, one winner. As audience members enter the theater, they are each handed a voting device which conveys their power to decide the outcome. Belgian theater group Ontroerend Goed created “Fight Night” in 2013 after a controversial...
The UMich Votes coalition is aiming to increase voter registration and turnout among students on campusUniversity of Michigan students are continually breaking voter registration and turnout records. Some 78 percent of U-M students on the Ann Arbor...
Jonathan Van Ness, star of the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, brought their podcast, Getting Curious, to Ann Arbor for a live recording to discuss voting and civic engagement. They were joined in conversation by Ford School Dean Celeste...
Descendants of Presidents Ford and Carter proposed new principles to make sure upcoming elections will be fair, secure, and trusted by the American people.The Ford School of Public Policy hosted the Carter Center, Ford Presidential Foundation, and...
50 years ago, in a nation wracked by scandal and uncertainty, President Gerald R. Ford made the controversial decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon. How do we think about the implications of that historic pardon in a modern political...
The Ford School has an exciting and diverse series of events this fall, designed to encourage policy debate, civic engagement, and Conversations Across Differences in a number of ways for students, faculty, staff, and the wider U-M and general...
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
The Ford School invites the U-M community -- students, faculty, and staff -- for an election debrief, analysis, and discussion with faculty experts Javed Ali, J. Alex Halderman, Rusty Hills, Vincent Hutchings, Barbara L. McQuade and Mara Ostfeld.
On the day after the elections, the Ford School, in conjunction with SAC and UGC, will host a lunch buffet for the Ford School community to get together, eat, and relax after a long election season.
Join Women and Gender in Public Policy and the Health Policy Student Association for an open discussion on reproductive rights and access to care as we approach the 2024 election.
The Ford School is proud to co-sponsor an event with Wallace House Presents, featuring New York Times columnists Bret Stephens and Lydia Polgreen, alongside ABC News’s María Elena Salinas, in conversation with Stephen Henderson of Detroit PBS.
