Slate of prominent speakers launches Weiser Diplomacy Center
"The Ford School is at the forefront of many of the challenging issues facing our world today, and the Weiser Diplomacy Center will further our ability to tackle such issues," said Michael Barr, the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy. "Bringing Stephen Biegun to speak to students about North Korea negotiations is a perfect example of this." This new hub for the study and practice of diplomacy will bring in leaders in foreign affairs to campus for dialogue with students and the public to strengthen U-M's role as a national leader in international policy education....
New "teach-outs" pay homage to U-M's game-changing Vietnam-era "teach-ins"
On March 24th, 1965 at 8:00 PM, about 3,500 faculty and students at the University of Michigan launched the first ever “teach in,” despite bomb threats and condemnation by the Michigan state legislature and governor. For twelve hours, participants attended lectures, debates, and performances to protest the War in Vietnam. Along the way, they established a model that would be replicated at over 120 campuses across the United States before the end of the war......
Hacking for global health: Tackling wicked problems, like avian influenza, with creativity
"It was a big, late-night conversation. We walked into the room with one view of the world, and we came out completely different, and totally for the better."...
Microfinance breakthrough: Dean Yang uses fingerprints to boost microlending in Malawi
Yang's study is not only addressing a massive challenge in microfinance and international development, it's also providing rigorous empirical evidence of the importance of personal identification for credit market efficiency....
The South China Sea Decision and "protecting room for peaceful negotiation"
This July—a week after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued what John Ciorciari called “a sweeping repudiation of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea,” Ciorciari wrote an op-ed for China-US Focus titled, “Reverberations of the South China Sea Decision.”...
Ford School partners with INCAE Business School in Latin America
The University of Michigan will launch a new partnership that enables MBA students from one of Latin America's top business schools to earn a master of public administration degree at the Ford School of Public Policy....