Former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio joins the Ford School as Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence
Former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio will join the Ford School faculty for winter 2024 as a Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence. De Blasio will teach a graduate…...
Institute Partnership Creates Pathway to Diverse Academic Leadership
The Academic Leadership Institute (ALI) Summer Residential Program offered by the University of Michigan (U-M) and Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) equips diverse individuals with the…...
Challenges continue for state-local relations, according to Michigan local government leaders
Over half of Michigan local officials currently rate their jurisdiction’s overall relationship with the State government as just fair or even poor, while 34% of local officials say it is either good…...
Axelrod autobiography gives insight to his “Passion for Cooperation”
Ford School professor emeritus Robert Axelrod has had a 50-year career that has made him what some people have called “one of the most influential social scientists of his generation.”...
Shaefer anticipates major poverty reduction in upcoming Flint prenatal and infant cash program
“I can’t talk about this without smiling. We are getting ready to eliminate extreme poverty for families with babies in Flint.” ...
Majority of Flint residents support reparations for Black Americans, CRJ survey shows
More than half of Flint residents favor reparations for Black Americans, although levels of support vary depending on whether the proposal refers to reparations as a broad concept or specific…...
YPL supports New York City public school expanded early math program
The Youth Policy Lab (YPL) is partnering with the Bank Street Education Center in New York City as pa...
Lewis announces Inclusive History Project campus research directors
Faculty members Camron Michael Amin, James W. Cook, and Lisa M. Lapeyrouse will lead the Inclusive History Project’s research activities spanning the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses. IHP is…...
Rabe examines developments in carbon border adjustments globally
The interplay between domestic and international climate politics "is a multilevel game," stated Barry Rabe, the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School....
Corwin (MPP/SEAS '25) increases residential participation in energy efficiency programs
This past summer, Bridget Corwin (MPP/SEAS ‘25) was chosen to be one of nine Catalyst Leadership Circle Fellows, an annual program that provides Michigan communities statewide the resources needed to…...
Rising inequality isn’t driving mass public support for redistribution: Charlotte Cavaillé’s ‘Fair Enough? explains why not
In the past, excessive economic inequality has ended… badly. As Charlotte Cavaillé points out in her new book that studies the public’s reaction to rising inequality, “only mass warfare, a state…...