Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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August 25, 2021
Ford School to address societal challenges through Center for Racial Justice
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is launching the Center for Racial Justice designed to expand knowledge about the complex intersections between race and public policy.
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May 19, 2021
Report: HAIL scholarship program boosts students’ trajectory
HAIL, a U-M scholarship program that launched five years ago for high achieving, low-income students in Michigan, has boosted applications and enrollment while helping to diversify the student body.
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May 12, 2021
Study finds vaccine hesitancy rooted in institutional mistrust
Hesitancy by some to get a COVID-19 vaccine is due to longstanding mistrust in technical, health and government institutions, and it challenges efforts to achieve herd immunity, researchers say.
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May 7, 2021
New co-directors at CFLP expand its work in financial inclusion
The Gerald R. Ford School School of Public Policy’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy has expanded its leadership structure by naming Adrienne Harris and Jeremy Kress as co-faculty directors.
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May 3, 2021
Webinar series examines science, technology and the ‘carceral state’
The myriad issues playing a role in an exploding prison population in the United States and around the world will be addressed in a U-M webinar series “Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology & the Carceral State.”
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April 12, 2021
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
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April 8, 2021
Kohn gift to help Ford School expand work in social policy, equity
Gifts totaling $17 million from the Kohn Charitable Trust will establish a resource hub at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy to research policy promoting social equity and inclusion for all U.S. residents.
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March 22, 2021
Anti-racism faculty hiring moves forward
Eight new U-M faculty positions have been selected for funding in the first round of the Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative, a three-year effort that will add at least 20 new tenured or tenure-track faculty members.
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March 19, 2021
Ford School in partnership to diversify, support Ph.D. applicants
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is partnering with other leading policy schools to expand and broaden research fellowship and faculty mentorship opportunities for master’s degree graduates.
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March 10, 2021
U-M expert examines wealth inequality-reducing policies
To understand why rising wealth inequality does not equate to support for redistribution policies, the Ford School’s Charlotte Cavaillé says we must understand “the type of glasses that we wear to interpret the world.”
