A conversation on leadership and foreign policy
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Join the conversation on Twitter: #FordPolicyUnion About the speaker In more than forty years of distinguished public service Ambassador (ret) John...
View ArticleUsing information disclosure to achieve policy goals: How experience with the...
**** Watch the video **** Free and open to the public. Abstract The federal Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is the premier national example of a non-regulatory environmental policy, and it illustrates...
View ArticleFord Policy Union: Pros and cons of free trade
Free and open to the public. Preceded by a reception in the Great Hall at the Ford School at 5:00 PM. Join the conversation on Twitter: #FordPolicyUnion. About the event This Ford Policy Union event...
View ArticleThe City After Abandonment
Presenters: Margaret Dewar , Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan June Manning Thomas , Centennial Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan Commentator:...
View ArticleWar in Afghanistan: Costs of Failure and Costs of Success
Free and open to the public. The war in Afghanistan is entering its eleventh year with the debate over continuing or withdrawing often reduced to little more than bumper sticker phrases. Former US...
View ArticleGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy 2014 Commencement
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The Charge to the Class will be delivered by U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI). This event is to be web...
View ArticleManaging global borders: In defense of big data
Lecture by Alan Bersin , Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
View ArticleLecture by Dick Costolo (BS '85), CEO of Twitter
Free and open to the public. Join the conversation on Twitter: #twitteratumich About the lecture: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo (BS '85) will discuss how he went from the trenches of computer science at the...
View ArticleWhat has gone so wrong with Congress?
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Join the conversation on Twitter: #fordschooldingell Hosted by: Richard L. Hall , Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy;...
View ArticleMetropolitan areas, regionalism, and the politics of intergovernmental...
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Continue the conversation on Twitter: #policytalks About the event: The Ford School's distinguished Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy...
View ArticleWhat's gone wrong in Washington, and why it doesn't have to be this way
With more than three decades of policy experience and knowing how Washington does – and doesn't – work, recently retired U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe has keen and contemporary insights on what...
View ArticleFord Policy Union - US-China Relations: Cooperation or Conflict?
Free and open to the public. Screening of Death by China will begin after the debate in the same room. About the event In this inaugural Ford Policy Union debate, Peter Navarro, the director and...
View ArticleKids v. Adults: How Politics and Policy Conspire to Leave Children Behind
Free and open to the public. Join the conversation: #fordschoolspellings Lecture by the Honorable Margaret Spellings , Former U.S. Secretary of Education (2005-2009) Abstract: The seminal education law...
View ArticleLegacies of the war on poverty, lessons for the future
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy will host this event as one of the highlights of the school's year-long centennial celebrations. Join the conversation on Twitter: #TalkPoverty About the...
View ArticleInformation and college attendance: Evidence from a randomized trial
Free and open to the public. About the Presentation: Improving students' access to information about college attendance and affordability is a simple, inexpensive intervention which has received much...
View ArticleIncome inequality and educational outcomes
Sean F. Reardon, Professor of Education, Stanford University Income inequality among the families of school-age children in the US has grown sharply in the last 40 years. In this talk Dr. Reardon will...
View ArticleHow do schools respond to differences in teacher effectiveness?
Teachers are the most important in-school contributors to student achievement, but there is widespread concern that the rigidities of the public school system make it unresponsive to teacher quality....
View ArticleCauses, consequences & potential solutions to the problem of educational...
Free and open to the public. Join in the conversation on Twitter #eddispartiites About the roundtable: This seminar will feature speakers from sociology, psychology and economics giving their...
View ArticleFederal student aid and college pricing: Do Pell Grants supplement or...
Free and open to the public. From the speaker's abstract: The federal Pell Grant Program provides billions of dollars in subsidies to low-income college students to increase affordability and access to...
View ArticleThe battle over climate change
Anthrax scares, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks and are all in a day's work for some climate scientists. In his July 2012 feature story in Popular Science, journalist Tom Clynes investigated...
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