Former Mayor for the City of Ann Arbor John Hieftje, and the students of the Ford School’s Public Policy Course 456/756 moderate an Ann Arbor City Council candidate debate.
Daniel Geary, the author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and its Legacy, examines the relationship between the Moynihan Report and the civil rights movement. April, 2015.
Justin Wolfers, Co-Editor of The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, discussed new research on fracking at the latest conference, held at Brookings on March 19-20, 2015.
The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy hosts Michael A. Pagano speaking about the five key attributes that frame city fiscal choice and behavior.
Chastity Pratt Dawsey, Diana Preciado, Lamont D. Satchel, and Tawana Petty aka Honeycomb discuss the unexamined realities and untold triumphs of leading, educating, organizing, and reporting from within the Detroit education system.
How bad are the roads? The University of Michigan surveyed top elected and appointed officials in Michigan's 1,856 units of government on a wide range of road related issues.
Ruth Browne describes the various initiatives that the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health has undertaken to promote community empowerment and better health outcomes for urban, underserved populations.
The Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies presents a screening of American Denial, followed by a discussion with producer/director Llewellyn Smith, Martha S. Jones, and moderated by the Ford School's own Joy Rohde.
“Teaching useful economics is about demonstrating to our students that they can mobilize the key principles that animate economic reasoning to make better decisions in their personal and professional lives.”
“Teaching useful economics is about demonstrating to our students that they can mobilize the key principles that animate economic reasoning to make better decisions in their personal and professional lives.”
2013 Livingston Award winner Luke Mogelson, Joel Lovell, John Ciorciari and Susan Waltz discuss the themes of "The Dream Boat," Mogelson's New York Times Magazine story about the plight of political asylum seeker
Chuck Lewis is a national investigative journalist, founder of the Center for Public Integrity, former 60 Minutes reporter, tenured professor of journalism, and bestselling author whose most recent book is 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Dec
Featuring Khalil Shikaki from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Shai Feldman from Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies, and Abdel Monem Said Aly from the Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo, th
University of Michigan environmental policy professor Barry Rabe looks at how states are responding to the first decade of extended development of oil and natural gas from shale deposits where federal involvement is limited.
This II Round Table brings together four experts to shed light on different aspects of ISIS: its origins, ideology, popular support, and impact on the international system.
Candidates Mike Behm, Rob Steele, Ronald Weiser, and Regent Kathy White answer questions composed by representatives of the League, Ford School students, and the audience.
Over the last decade, K-12 education in Detroit has undergone unprecedented change with the establishment of the Education Achievement Authority in 2012, the surge of charter school enrollment, and the influence
