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The Magazine of The

gerald r. ford School

of Public Policy

University of Michigan

&The ford School aT 95

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Fall 2009


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State & Hill, Ford School,

University o Michigan,

735 S. State Street,

Ann Arbor MI 48109-3091

With this rst issue oState & Hill, our new school magazine, we celebrate

the 95th anniversary o the Ford School and pay tribute to the eorts

o so many people whose creative energies have enabled us to thrive.

The scope o our research, teaching, and policy engagement has grown over the

decades, rom an initial ocus on city governments to an understanding that the

world has become a much smaller place and that most policy issues have global

dimensions.

The tools we use to explore public policy have evolved as well. During the late 60s,

IPPS was at the oreront o a movement to apply rigorous social science techniques

to pressing policy issues a revolutionary idea that has stood the test o time.

So what hasnt changed since 1914? Certainly not our commitment to public service

and cutting-edge research, our belie in the value o sending well-trained and

dedicated public servants out to work on the issues that impact our communities,

or our collegial environment.

In addition to looking back, this issue o our magazine also enables us to share

recent accomplishments the graduation o our rst class o undergraduates,

the success o our innovative PhD programs, the launch o a new research center

charged with exploring issues o diversity and public policy, and the policy impactso our aculty and research centers.

With so many strengths to build on, we look with optimism to the uture. We will

continue to strengthen our ties with the policy world, grow our aculty, recruit and

train the brightest and most dynamic students, and internationalize our educational

programs and research.

But the same economic pressures challenging our state conront us as well. Like

the University o Michigan, the Ford School has worked to contain costs without

sacricing the quality o our educational and research programs. As we sharpen

our ocus on student support, we will increasingly need to rely on your generous

commitment to our current and uture students.

What are our hopes orState & Hill? We seek to deepen already strong ties withour alumni, provide a window into the policy research and education we oster,

and show how our alumni and riends can continue to be a part o the Ford School

mission. Let us know how were doing please send your comments and sugges-

tions aboutState & Hillto [email protected].

We hope to see many o you in Ann Arbor or the alumni reunion estivities in

September. But well be celebrating our 95th anniversary all year, so please drop

by i youre around the corner. Id like to hear your memories the part you

played in our history along with your hopes or our uture.

SuSan M. CollinS

Joan and Sanord Weill Dean o Public Policy


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95 ys S 2A Look Back at the Evolution o the Ford School

Pp t Mk d 6Three Grads, Three Eras

css bs 10Applied Policy Seminar Evolves with Student Interests

a r rs T it 12Alums Tackle Municipal Land-use Debate

a Ptpst t ft 14A Few Moments with Ranny Riecker

P P dt ds 16Research that Makes a Dierence

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Shot-Callers: Gubernatorial Campaign Joined by Students 8

Tight Times: Community Supports Fellowships and Internships 9

Visiting VIPs 13

First Public Policy BA Students Graduate 13

Greenhouse Governance 15

Center or Public Policy in Diverse Societies 19

PhD Program Flourishes 19

Dpms

Faculty News & Awards 20

Class Notes 22

The Last Word 24

Reunion Weekend, Calendar Highlights 25

GueSS who?

Recognize these two?

Send your best guesses to

[email protected].

Correct responses will be

entered into a drawing or a

Ford School souvenir. Bonusgit or the most creative caption!

to: Bentley Historical Library,versity o Michigan &

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2 S TA T E & H I L L

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tory

The univerSiTy of Michigan benefiTS

froM an original

In 1913, Jesse S. Reeves, chairman o the

University o Michigan political science

department, proposed an academic program

dedicated to training uture leaders in city

government.

In a letter to U-M President Hutchins, Reeves

wrote: I believe that the University has a dis-

tinct opportunity, not only in oering a public

service to the people o the statebut in leading

the way in the training o municipal experts.

A year later, the political science department

launched a program leading to a Master o Arts

in Municipal Administration the nations rst

systematic public service training program with

a municipality ocus.

The program required coursework in economics,

law, civil engineering, and landscape design as

well as 3 months o eldwork. It started small,

with just two students enrolled in each o its

rst ten years. By the time Michigan Stadium

opened its doors in 1927, the fedgling program

set a record high o eight enrolled students.

95 ys SThis a, w cbat th Fo Schoos 95th aivsa. W pou o th schoos

cotibutios to pubic poic sach a ucatio pou that though ou pogam,

th Uivsit o Michiga has tai so ma gatios o committ pubic svats.

H is ou sto.

1940s

The iPa era

Teaching was suspended temporarily by the

Great Depression and, later, by the scattering

o aculty and students during World War II.

But the program reached a key turning point

in 1945 as the end o the war brought new de-

mand or trained public servants. In September

1945, the Regents approved a plan to establish

the Institute o Public Administration (IPA),

ocially launched in 1946.

Core IPA courses included scal administration,

public personnel, intergovernmental relations,

and techniques or research and reporting in

public administration. Michigan residents paid

$65 per term to attend.

Most IPA graduates entered into public service.

Between 1949 and 1963, just over a third wentto work or municipal governments, including

graduates who became the city managers o

Bloomington, Howell, and Jackson.

IPA-trained public service proessionals were in

high demand. During the whole period since

World War II, placement o our graduates has

been a minor problem at most, recalled Ferrel

Heady, director o IPA rom 1960 to 1967.

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1960s

Even as the number o graduates per year rises,

the number o available positions grows at a

ast rate, he said at the IPAs 50th anniversary

celebration.

The IPA era saw aculty research expand into

active engagement with state issues, including

constitutional topics, taxes, expenditures, state-

local scal relations, and inormation disclosure.

In 1954, the aculty-led Bureau o Government

publishedA Study Kit on Michigan Local

Government, a top seller with 15,000 copies

sold at 40 cents each.

bringing Social Science To bear

The scope and nature o the schools mission

continued to expand. In the late 1960s, Pat

Crecine, a young, newly tenured associate pro-

essor, wrote an infuential article or the Policy

Science Journal, calling or a new, interdisciplinary

way o bringing the analytic tools o contempo-rary social science to bear on social problems.

Crecines approach marked a revolutionary

milestone in the development o todays

Ford School and in the broader eld o public

service training. Under Crecines leadership,

the Institute o Public Policy Studies (IPPS)

was established in 1968 to award a new degree,

the Master o Public Policy. Similar programs

sprang up at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard,

Berkeley, Texas, and Duke, eventually joined

by dozens more around the country.

The new IPPS curriculum was designed to pro-

vide students the analytical skills to deal with

challenging problems in an increasingly com-

plex environment. First-year MPP core courses

built basic knowledge in economics, the political

environment, operations research, and quanti-

tative methods. Students then applied their new

skills to a summer internship and spent most o

their second year developing a specialty.

Faculty research interests broadened as well.

Nearly all IPPS aculty were jointly appointed

with other top-rated schools and departments

at the U-M, ostering an interdisciplinary ap-

proach that enriched research and teaching.

Jack Walker, IPPS director rom 1974 to 1979,

studied political and administrative decision

processes around the U.S. Deense Departmentbudget and evaluated the eects o the 1967

Detroit riots. Other research projects investi-

gated relations between market power and

racial discrimination, the diusion o innova-

tions among American states, and theories o

organizational behavior.

Ned Gramlich became the director o IPPS in

1979 and or the next two decades he, Paul

Courant, Edie Goldenberg, and John Chamberlin

each served one or more terms as director. The

remarkably smooth transitions among them

refected IPPSs collegial culture, as well as theleadership abilities o the directors. Courant

went on to serve as Provost and recently, Dean

o Libraries or the University. Goldenberg later

had a very successul 9-year run as Dean o the

College o Literature, Science, and the Arts. And

Chamberlin became ounding director o both the

schools groundbreaking undergraduate program

and the U-M Center or Ethics in Public Lie.

From the late 1970s through the early 1990s,

IPPS saw a steady expansion and diversication

o the student body. The class size was 33 in

1974, with just 7 women. By 1994, it had dou-

bled and over hal were women. The percentage

o minorities more than doubled, rom 10% in

1974 to 24% in 1984.

As in the past, many graduates went to work in

local and state government, but increasingly,

IPPS alumni ound excellent matches or their

skills within the ederal government. IPPS engaged

with the Presidential Management Internship

(now called the Presidential Management Fellows)

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rom the programs start in 1977, aording

graduates opportunities with agencies suchas the Oce o Management and Budget,

Department o Energy, and NASA.

Paul Courant led the IPPS move to the 4th foor

o Lorch Hall in 1985. The programs entire ac-

ulty and sta were under one roo or the rst

time since the early years, a happy circumstance

despite some aesthetic quibbles (student David

Baruch, quoted in the May 86 IPPS News: The

urniture clashes with the carpeting. Hold it

the urniture clashes with the urniture.)

The school ormally began to oer international

coursework in 1978, including InternationalEconomic Policy, World Politics, and International

Security Aairs. By 1988, Goldenberg reported

to alumni that ully 40 percent o incoming

classes were interested in the international

program.

naMed for a PreSidenT

Led by the tireless eorts o Ned Gramlich and

others, in 1995 IPPS became an independent

school within the University o Michigan, the

School o Public Policy (SPP).

Gramlich let Ann Arbor in 1997 to serve on the

Federal Reserve Board o Governors. In 1999,

Rebecca M. Blank, a proessor at Northwestern

and a Member o the Presidents Council o

Economic Advisers, took the reins, with a clear

mandate to grow the program and raise its vis-

ibility as one o the countrys top policy schools.

In 1999, the U-M renamed the school to honor

President Gerald R. Ford a 1935 graduateo the University o Michigan. First proposed

back in 1977 by then-director Jack Walker, the

naming o the school or President Ford was an

excellent t given his Michigan ties and his lie-

long commitment to public service.

The school represents so many o the exem-

plary qualities by which my ather aspired to

live his lie: proessional excellence, integrity,

moral purpose, and service or the greater good

o humanity, notes President Fords son, Mike.

Gerald Ford loved his alma mater, the University

o Michigan, and he was deeply honored and

humbled to have the School o Public Policy

bear his name.

new SPace for new PrograMS

The school had again outgrown its space.

In 2002, the University approved its ambitious

goal: construction o a new building on the

corner o State and Hill, the southern gateway

to central campus.

Between the naming ceremony in 2000 and

December 2008, riends, donors, alumni, and

oundations contributed a total o $51.4 million.Those generous gits and grants unded con-

struction o the new building and continue to

provide support or students, aculty research,

and programming.

In 2006, the school moved into its new home,

Joan and Sanord Weill Hall. The beautiul,

1980s

an early Global reaCh In 1949, IPA director John W. Lederle struck a deal with

the State Department to oer public administration education to various groups o

international students. The initiative started with several German visitors to Ann Arbor.

Later, the IPA sent aculty members abroad, helping the University o the Philippines

establish an Institute o Public Administration in 1952 and in the 1960s, helping create

the Taiwan Center or Public and Business Administration in the Republic o China.

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state-o-the-art space has enhanced the schools

role as a central venue or public policy discus-sion and helped attract top students and aculty.

Under Blanks leadership, the school established

two new degree programs. In 2001, it launched

an innovative joint PhD program with the de-

partments o economics, sociology, and political

science. And since 2007, a new BA program

allows some o the best U-M students to pursue

a Bachelors degree in Public Policy in their junior

and senior years. The school also ounded three

vital, engaged research centers: the Center or

Local, State, and Urban Policy; the National

Poverty Center; and the International Policy

Center.

The four cornerS of The globe

Blank stepped down in 2006 and was later

appointed Undersecretary o Economic Aairs

in the Commerce Department. In 2007, the

University appointed international economist

Susan M. Collins rom Georgetown University

and Brookings as dean. With her leadership, the

school will enhance its international activities

continuing to expand student opportunities to

study and work abroad and in the U.S. on inter-

national issues and integrating cross-nationalissues more ully into the curriculum and the

research programs. The newly-launched center

on policy in diverse societies will also have

international dimensions.

We will continue to build on strengths that

have distinguished the school or decades Collins notes, a commitment to the importance

o analytic and quantitative social science to

improve policy, a top-notch multi-disciplinary

aculty, high-quality and diverse students, the

ability to leverage connections throughout the

world-class University o Michigan, demonstrat-

ed success as teachers and mentors, and our

communitys collegial and cohesive spirit.

During this anniversary year, the Ford School

looks back with pride at the programs growth

and impact: a 95-year history o training eec-

tive, committed policy leaders and breaking new

intellectual ground. From the programs early

ocus on local government, the decades brought

a widened lens and increasing engagement with

state, regional, national, and international policy

issues.

We look orward to the next century o service,

rom our corner to the our corners o the globe.

990s

2000s

In eIghty-one years, the mIssIon of traInIng people

to be thoughtful and effectIve publIc servants has

not changed. We contInue to educate students for

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ocatio, th stut bo icam (ao s miss IPPSts?), a mo. But ou

gauats sha a commitmt to pubic svic a a bi that st-at quatitativ

a poitica aasis ca a shou hp sov pubic poic chags. H th

aums pstig th as om ou histo fct o thi Fo Schoo ucatio,

thi cas, a thi cotiuig coctios with th schoo.

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Speaking with Ford School alumni, one

quickly learns that policy proessionals

in the local, national, and international

realms deal with many o the same challenges

challenges or which the school helped prepare

them. By gaining an understanding o the infu-

ence o the political environment and the value

o quantitative analysis in policymaking, FordSchool students gain the skills necessary to

apply theory to real-world problems, balance

stakeholder needs, and implement successul

initiatives.

When riCh huGheS (MPA 61) was in graduate

school, about a third o the class was headed

or careers in municipal government. Even the

students who arrived in Ann Arbor rom abroad

tended toward an interest in local or state

issues. Several o my classmates were interna-

tional students, mostly rom India, Hughes

recalls, but they all had a state or local ocus.

More recent graduates have had a wider range

o aculty interests, coursework, and internship

opportunities to engage with while in school.

But even those who have gone on to careers

with international organizations have ound

common threads with earlier eras, including

the importance o well-run, accountable local

governments.

When Dileepan Siva (MPP 04) traveled to India

as an undergraduate studying public health, he

was requently asked, What are the challenges

in your community? Siva notes that While thecontext may have been dierent, the actual

problems were almost identical.

Ater graduating rom the Ford School,

Siva spent several years with the National

Democratic Institute or International Aairs

(NDI). He explained that the political consulting

and poll watching he did or NDI in Zimbabwe

was about connecting people to their local and

provincial governments. Its the same challenge

he saw earlier in his career, when Los Angeles

Unied was working on public high school

reorm. The underlying problem in both placeswas constituent access and the ability to hold

state and local government accountable to

deliver services.

Hughes has witnessed similar challenges.

A consultant or municipal governments, he

says the core question is how to sell program

analysis and establish relationships while taking

into account the political environment. When

Hughes worked with San Diego, deciding how

many police ocers were required to provide

the services needed was not about the cityscrime or emergency statistics. The numbers

didnt make a dierenceit was about who

supported the police more.

IPPS-era graduate Cheryl MCMillen (MPP 90)

agrees. You absolutely have to do analysis, but

when it gets down to it, its the political environ-

ment that moves policy.

She should know. As the Director o Health

Benets and Income Support or the Department

o Health and Human Services, McMillen is

constantly negotiating the political environment.

For example, when the Secretary and the

Attorney General announced plans or HHS

to intensiy its ocus on health care raud and

abuse, many in HHS had numbers at the ready

to show how eective raud prevention measures

could be implemented.

Politically, however, the department needs to

nd a balance between prevention and prosecu-

tion. Arresting people gets attention, its an

action. Prevention is hard to prove and not

very sexy, McMillen says.

Still a part o the core curriculum today, PoliticalEnvironment o Policymaking was a ormative

MPP course or McMillen. We read an Ibsen

play,Enemy of the People, she remembers.

In the play, a towns doctor discovers that their

water source is poisonedbut the mayor reuses

to do anything. The towns new baths, a major

source o income, are in danger o shutting

down i the water pollution is acknowledged,

McMillen explains. The play illustrates the

need to nd a balance between evidence and

policy [creation]. That message is still very

relevant.

Sivas current work at Synergos has taken him

into new policy territory, centered on partner-

ships among the nonprot, corporate, and

public sectors. Siva views social enterprise as

When It gets doWn to It, Its the polItIcal envIronment

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the next big thing, the ourth sector, and heis enthusiastic about the possibilities created

by an increased emphasis on corporate social

responsibility.

Corporations, with their immense reach, exper-

tise, and ability to draw on capital, are especially

well positioned to work on environmental and

social issues. In a partnership, government

and business can hold each other accountable,

Siva says. For example, the water shortage

problem in the Himalayan Basin wont be

solved by the governments o China or India.

But because they rely on the business o bothcountries, its in the best interest o corpora-

tions to work on this issue.

Though his interests have long been around

addressing poverty and social injustice in devel-

oping countries through NGOs, he ound that

the Ford Schools emphasis on quantitative

analysis and the political environment prepared

him well or his current work on multi-sector

partnerships.

Hughes echoes Sivas sentiment about the last-ing impact o his graduate education and adds,

The Ford School attracts and educates people

who believe in service and are out to make a

dierence. An Alumni Board member, he is

also excited about new developments in the

Ford Schools curriculum, noting that what

hasnt changed are the values o the aculty

and the inquisitiveness and motivation o the

students.

Ater all, while the curriculum and internship

opportunities at the Ford School have expanded

over time, what makes policy eective and whatgets it implemented has not changed.

Emphasizing the importance o both quantita-

tive analysis and the political environment,

o public accountability at all levels, the Ford

School continues to turn out lielong learners

with the skills, commitment, and curiosity to

generate real policy impact.

the ford school attracts and educates people Who belIeve In

servIce and are out to make a dIfference. rIch hughes

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What are the odds o a ormer U.S. Army Captain and Michigan

basketballs co-captain embarking on the same statewide political

campaign?

Despite their diverse backgrounds, JeFFrey S. barneS (Simon

Fellow, Bromage Intern, MPP 09), who served stateside and

overseas on active duty or nine years, and C.J. lee (MPP 10),point guard or the Wolverines, share an interest in state and local

politics. Its no surprise that they joined Republican Rick Snyder

(BA 77, MBA 79, JD 82), a native Michigander and the ounder,

chairman, and CEO o Ardesta on his 2010 gubernatorial bid.

I wanted to get out o my national security niche, and politics at a

state and local level has always been a source o interest to me,

said Barnes, who works as Policy Director or the campaign. Lee,

completing his summer internship requirement, joined the team

as Rick Snyders personal assistant. When asked about peoples

reactions on the campaign trail, Lee concedes with a smile:

People oten recognize me and it sometimes throws them o

because they are used to seeing me running on the court!

JeFFrey barneS, riCk SnyDer, C.J. lee

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With its long history as a small, collegial program,

its no wonder Ford School students still eel

strong connections to ellow students, aculty,

sta, and alumni.

Even as the student body has doubled in the past decade, those

connections remain strong because members o the Ford School

community invest in the students. They give time, energy,

knowledge, and most tangibly, philanthropic support or student

ellowships and internship unding.

The need or such support is clear. Trey Williams, director o the

schools Oce o Student and Academic Services, notes that

While we are extremely grateul or the support we have

received, we have not been able to keep up with the increase in

ellowship support oered by key competitors or the combination

o increases in the cost o tuition and the fat levels o ederal

need-based support.

95% o the schools incoming graduate students are out-o-state

residents, or whom the estimated two-year cost o attendance

is $104,458 ($70,366 in tuition alone). And as Williams points out,

need-based aid has not increased in at least ve years.

Alumni, aculty, and sta have all pitched in. For the past two

years, the Alumni Board has provided support to enable student

internships at the Asia Foundation in Manila, Philippines, and, the

previous summer, at the Clinton Foundation. The Faculty and

Senior Sta Internship allowed a student to spend the summer

at Innovations or Poverty Action in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The act that every Annual Fund dollar is committed to student

support sends a unique and powerul message. Ford School

alumni continue to be the largest group o donors to the Annual

Fund, providing ellowships or top-notch incoming students as

well as the internship support that helps students hone skills and

clariy career goals.

But perhaps the most inspiring donors are the students

themselves. For the past three years graduating students have

provided uture students with opportunities like those they

themselves had. Abby Newcomer (MPP 09), recipient o a

Gramlich Fellowship, co-chaired the 2009 Masters Class Git

Committee. I contributed to the class git program or two

reasons, she says. First, I wanted to express my appreciation

or the schools supportive community. And second, I was

committed to supporting internship opportunities or uture

students.

This year, the schools rst BAs enthusiastically joined their

graduate counterparts in making a class git. The need is clear,

and Ford School community memberseven the newest

membersare responding.

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The Ford School is a leader in proessional

education, research, and public service.

Be a leader, support the Annual Fund.To fnd out more about the Annual Fund and

other giving opportunities, please contact

the Development Ofce.

734-615-3892 or visit

www.fordschool.umich.edu/giving

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n the shadow o the Detroit-Windsor

Ambassador Bridge, Mexicantowns

authentic restaurants and bakeries delight

tourists and locals. Every year, millions o

Midwesterners drive through the Detroit-

Windsor tunnel and head to the Caesars

Windsor casino or gambling and entertain-

ment. But the Ambassador Bridge and the

Detroit-Windsor tunnel are more than landmarks

or the two communities. They represent the

busiest international border crossing in North

America.

According to a recent Brookings Institution report,

the Ambassador Bridge, which is privately owned

and operated by the Detroit International Bridge

Company, carries more trade between the UnitedStates and Canada each year than fows between

the United States and all o Europe and Japan

combined. Billions o dollars and hundreds o

thousands o jobs depend on the inrastructure

that connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Its a major border crossing between two powerul

nations, and as a result, has important implica-

tions or many policy issues such as trade, immi-

gration, and national security.

As the Ford Schools eld o vision has expand-

ed over time, so too have the interests o the

students. Some students still envision theircareers ollowing either a domestic track or an

international one, but increasingly, aculty nd

that students recognize the need to explore policy

issues through a more integrated lens. These

actors make the Detroit-Windsor border cross-

ings an ideal ocus o study or todays Ford

School students. The border invites consider-

ation o a wide range o both domestic and

international policy issues. For example, it

very naturally places issues o local economic

development in a global policy perspective,

and rames international security issues within

a regional context.

These opportunities in part led Proessor Liz

Gerber to select the Detroit-Windsor border

crossing as the topic or the Applied Policy

Seminar she taught in the Winter 2009 term.

Gerber, hersel a political scientist with exper-tise in domestic issues such as land use, trans-

portation, and economic development policy,

was attracted by the wide range o issues that

can be viewed through the lens o the border

crossing.

Gerber secured the Detroit Regional Chamber

o Commerce as the projects client and collabo-

rated with Ford School alum and instructor,

Steve Tobocman (MPP 97), to develop the basic

ramework or the course. Given the clients

broad interests in border crossing issues, the

Chamber was happy to allow the students agreat deal o discretion is choosing the specic

ocus o the project.

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So when the class convened at the beginning o

the Winter semester, students were given the

initial task o dening the scope o the project

and deciding which particular issues would be

part o the projects ocus. The students chose

a structure that would let them learn about local

economic development and workorce issues,

as well as a number o policy areas traditionallylabeled as international, such as national secu-

rity, immigration, and international trade.

When Gerber contacted the Detroit Regional

Chamber o Commerce to discuss the proposed

project scope, the clients were initially most

interested in trade and local development, they

were less interested in other global issues such

as security or immigration, she notes, but

they were not resistant to the idea o broaden-

ing the ocus.

The resulting project, U.S. Border Crossing

Analysis: A Case or Detroit-Windsor, was di-vided into two parts. The rst phase involved

data collection on all major border crossings in

both the north and south o the U.S., including

indicators such as trade, inrastructure, trac

volume, security measures, employment and

immigration, and the characteristics o local

communities. The second phase broke students

into groups that worked

on case studies o the

ve largest U.S. border

crossings: Detroit-

Windsor, Bualo-Niagara,

San Diego-Tijuana,

Laredo-Nuevo Laredo,

and El Paso-Juarez.

Student Suzanne Gill

(Bromage Intern, MPP

09) explains, The ulti-

mate goal o this project was to highlight theunique qualities and characteristics o Detroit,

as well as to make recommendations on what

could be improved based on the study o other

border crossing cities best practices.

The students presented their ndings to a di-

verse group o stakeholders rom Detroit and

Windsor. We gave some practical recommen-

dations based on our case studies, Gill said.

For instance, we studied the Bualo-Niagara

region where there is a bridge used solely by

Nexus cardholders. The Nexus pass is a pre-

authorized custom card that makes cross-

border commuting easier and reduces trac

congestion. This type o initiative is unique

along the U.S.-Canadian border and could be

replicated in Detroit.

The opportunity to gain public sector consulting

experience has made the Applied Policy Seminar

a popular elective or a number o years. Past

clients have included county governments,

school districts, and city administrators. Thecomplexity and methodology o each project

is established collaboratively by the client, the

students, and the aculty director. Students con-

duct research, analyze data, review best prac-

tices, meet with stakeholders, interview actors,

produce bries and reports, and present their

results to clients.

Je S. Barnes (MPP 09), who took this years

course, highlights the importance o the practi-

cal, consulting dimension to him. I did not

have any consulting experience, so thats what

drove me to this class. The ability to work with

local actors was a great opportunity or me,

and I also learned a great deal about the

Detroit metropolitan area. The instructors

role, Gerber explains, is to help with the

design and the management o the project,

and act as an interace between the local

clients and the students.

Gerber has taught the Applied Policy Seminar

several times, always with a domestic ocus.

She thinks that the broad scope o this years

course was a positive development, and credits

the changing nature o the MPP students who

come to the school. There was denitely even

more interest in international issues than I had

thought, Gerber notes, More and more students

want an education that integrates domestic and

international policy. Barnes is just such a stu-

dent. He says, I had taken many courses o-

cused on international security and I thoughtthat it would be an interesting opportunity to

approach this issue rom a local standpoint.

When asked about the next iteration o the

course, Gerber says shes already looking or

more clients like the Detroit Regional Chamber

o Commerce, clients who see the value o an

integrated approach to public policy. I hope we

can continue to nd opportunities to satisy the

broad range o interests our students bring with

them to the Ford School, while at the same time

having a positive impact on our local

communities.

more and more students Want an educatIon that

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localties

Ann Arborites live or summers long days, ripe

cherries, and sunny aternoons at the Huron River.

The river is a quiet place or locals to get out o

the city without going anywhere, and the waterway and

bordering parks provide opportunities or hiking, running,

cycling, kayaking, canoeing, and more.

The Argo Dam, originally built in 1820 to power four

mills and rebuilt by Detroit Edison in 1913, was

decommissioned or hydropower generation decades

ago but remains a key component o Ann Arbors

recreation landscape. The 3,200 meters o rowablewater created by the Argo Dam makes the Huron River

the venue o choice or local rowing groups. High school

and collegiate rowing teams and the Ann Arbor Rowing

Club make more than 50,000 trips each year through

the pond created by the dam.

But the liespan o dams is limited, and the regular

need or extensive repairs has begun to raise questions

about the uture o the dam. A heated municipal land

use debate has ensued: should the dam be removed,

returning the riverbed to a more natural state,

reducing noise pollution, and enhancing public

recreation opportunitiesbut limiting options orrowers? Or should the dam be repaired?

Michigans Department o Environmental Quality (DEQ)

gave the City o Ann Arbor until July 2009 to make

a decision. Two Ford School graduates have been

instrumental in collecting the data and perorming

the analysis necessary or the Citys decision.

Bhavani Prathap Kasina (Wege Foundation Intern,

MPP 09) worked or seven months this year under

the supervision o Matthew Naud (MPP 89), the citys

Environmental Coordinator. Prathap did terric work,

Naud said. He provided the city with some excellent

economic analysis o the monetary costs and benets

o the various options.

I the City chooses to keep the dam, costs such as

construction and maintenance must be considered, but

the restoration o hydropower generators could eventually

oer revenue (although not or an estimated 50 years).

Removing the dam would incur removal costs andpossibly require dredging sediment, and oer no direct

monetary benets.

But the Argo Dam debate provides plenty o evidence or

the importance o non-monetizedcosts and benets in

public decision-making, as Kasina saw rst-hand during

a series o public meetings about the uture o the dam.

Environmental groups presented as passionate a case

or removing the dam as did the rowers (many o whom

consider themselves environmentalists) or saving the

pond. The issue generated considerable interest in

the city and among local groups and communities,

Kasina says. I gained a better understanding o localcommunities issues and I was able to see how political

and social actors, as well as economic analyses, weigh

in to the policy-making process. The cost-benet analysis

itsel is just one piece o the nal decision.

As o this writing, the analysis and debate go on. Taking

into consideration ervent public input (some voiced on

yard signs), conficting recommendations rom the two

city committees with jurisdiction, and the solutions other

communities have ound to similar challenges, Ann Arbor

Mayor and Ford School aculty member John Hietje and

the City Council requested a nine-month extension rom

the DEQ to gather additional inormation about the citys

options or the dam.

a r rs T itFOrd SCHOOl GrAdUATeS TACkle COST/B eneFIT AnAlySIS

OF rePAIrS TO Ann ArBOrS ArGO dAM

Photo: John Baird

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Fity-our new graduates walked across the Rackham Auditorium stagein May 2009 and took their place in history as the inaugural class o

undergraduates to receive degrees rom the Ford School. The rst

group o BAs are outstanding students with broad-ranging interests in policy

at home and abroad. They combined their accomplishments in the classroom

with signicant engagement with campus and community lie.

Among the accomplishments o the Class o 2009: our members o Phi Beta

Kappa, the winner o a Hopwood writing award, the editor-in-chie o the

Michigan Daily, two varsity athletes, the leaders o a dozen student organiza-

tions, and the organizer behind the rst new party in a decade to achieve

a strong showing in the Michigan Student Assembly elections (who says he

learned how to do this in Rusty Hillss course on campaigns). In addition to

staying busy in Ann Arbor, about 40% o the class spent a term in study-abroad or in the Michigan in Washington program.

As the Class o 2009 moves on to the next stages o their lives, we are learning

the answers to one o our most requently asked questions: What can someone

do with a BA in public policy? So ar, the answers include: go to law school,

pursue a graduate degree in public health or higher education, join the Peace

Corps or AmeriCorps or Teach or America, teach English abroad (in one case

with the support o a Fulbright), join the Air Force, be a legislative aide in

Lansing or DC, and get an internship with the New York Yankees.

This extraordinary group o students set the bar high academically, person-

ally, and proessionally or the undergraduate classes that will ollow them

into the Ford School. We look orward to continuing to work with the Class

o 2009 as alumni o the School and watching the contributions they willundoubtedly make in this new role.

Fis Pbi Piy

Ba Sds Gd

e BA Class o 09

M wg edm, ounder and president

o the Childrens Deense Fund, delivers 2009

Citigroup Foundation Lecture in January.

Js b, ormer White House Chie o Sta,

speaks to a packed room o Ford School students,

aculty, and sta in April in a session titled, Running

the White House: Advice I Gave My Successor.

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intervieW

Margaret Ann (Ranny) Riecker (HLLD

05) is the Ford Schools single most

generous supporter o students. Her

philanthropy through the Herbert H. and Grace

A. Dow Foundation (where she is president), the

Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation

(where she is chair), and her personal giving

with her late husband, John Riecker (AB 52,

JD 54) has already unded the education o 16public policy students, and more than 400 stu-

dents campus-wide.

Here at the Ford School, Riecker and her amily

have also:

helped support the construction o

Joan and Sanord Weill Hall, leading

to the naming o the Margaret Dow

Towsley Reading Room in honor o

Rannys late mother;

endowed the Towsley Foundation

Policymaker-in-Residence program;and

signicantly advanced the Science,

Technology and Public Policy program

through unding or postdoctoral

students.

She also chaired the Schools highly-

successul undraising campaign and

serves on its advisory committee.

A ormer Republican National Committee

member, Ranny Riecker is a rank advocate or

a Michigan characterized by a diverse economic

base, eective health care, inormed policy,

civility in public lie and respect or the value

o education. She recently shared her thoughts

about current events and her reasons or sup-

porting the Ford School.

State & hill: Lets start with some big ques-

tions: What do you think about the state o our

world? What are the issues that keep you up

at night?

ranny rieCker: The economy keeps me up late.

I think President Obama is extremely charismatic

and quite successul at promoting his policies.

But I also think his proposals leave open some

important questions. Im an advocate or elec-

tronic medical records, or example. But we

havent even started to assess the cost o digitiz-

ing everything. Just our health care system here

in Midland alone would have to pay close to $30million to make it happen. How can we achieve

this goal in a way that we can aord?

S&h : In the ace o these economic challenges,

what tools does Michigan have to turn things

around?

rr: Our higher education system is one o our

greatest assets. Its very hard or people in

Michigan to stop thinking about everything in

relation to automobiles. But the U-M and our

other research universities around the state

have so much talent that they can devote to

incubating new industries like alternative

energy and health sciences.

S&h : Where is the Ford Schools role in this

process?

rr: Ill be honest again: Michigans legislators

and governor dont understand the assets they

have here. There are so many times when they

wouldnt need to hire outside experts because

they could go to U-M or any o our other univer-

sities or more and better advice.

O course the School is doing some very inter-esting things with local communitieswith the

bridge in Detroit, or example. Its not an ivory

tower. But it can be very hard to get people to

change the way they look at universities.

S&h : You and your late husband, John, have

been the Schools largest supporters o students.

What inspired you to give or student aid?

r rk

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rr: The thing that really rightens me is that

were balancing our state budget on the backs

o the uture by cutting education. For example,

much o my support now is or science policy

because we dont raise scientists anymore. I

were going to have a oreign policy that allows

people into the U.S. on education visas and then

orces them to get a green card or go home,

were going to have to start cultivating our

own talent.

S&h : I we were to look back 50 or 100 years

rom now, what would you want to see as your

legacy?

rr: Positive change in the quality o lie or citi-zens in the communities weve touched. And

some civility in our public policy, in our dealings

with people we disagree withor even those we

agree with.

S&h : What are the things that make you happy

or proud or excited to live in Michigan?

rr: I love this state: the variety, the lakesAnd

the people. Even with all our problems, there are

so many positive people. Michigan has historically

been a breeding ground or entrepreneurs, people

who make positive improvements. We love ourhistory, but we dont rest on our laurels.

For more inormation about theRiecker Fellows at the Ford School, go to

www.ordschool.umich.edu/alumni/riecker-

ellows.

InternShIP oFFerSFull-cIrcle exPerIence

Frank SzolloSi (Annenberg Intern) came to the Ford School

to sharpen his policy chops. He joined the MPP class o 2010

with experience as a congressional press secretary, a political

consultant, and a seven-year member o the Toledo City Council.

Szollosis interest in climate change, cities, and a post-Kyoto

international climate agreement led him to an internship with the

U.S. State Departments Oce o Global Change (EGC). While with

the EGC, Szollosi was able to attend a round o negotiations o the

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn,

Germany. The UNFCCC was ull-circle experience or Szollosi.

Negotiations are all just a matter o scale, he said. Whether its

a small city or the UN, you try to nd common interests, agreed

upon goals, and communicate with each other.

GreenhouSe GovernanceThe ederal government has been grappling with the issues

surrounding climate change or nearly thirty years and new scientic

evidence strongly supports the idea that a viable governance strategy

needs to be developed. According to a recent survey, while a

majority o Americans believe the earth is warming and government

should be responsible or addressing climate change, they are not

willing to directly support climate change policies. Where does thatleave policymakers?

A group o the nations leading researchers and policy-infuencers

gathered at a recent national conerence to discuss the complex

issues surrounding climate policy. The conerence proceedings,

edited by Barry Rabe, will appear in a orthcoming book rom the

Brookings Institution Press called Greenhouse Governance:

Addressing Climate Change in America.

barry rabe is a professor at the Ford School of Public Policy,

a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and

organizer of the 2008 National Conference on Climate Governanceat the University of Virginias Miller Center of Public Affairs.

rabe

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For much o the 20th century, Michigan

was an economic powerhouse ueled by

a growing industrial economy. Times,

o course, have changed.

Michigans near decade-long economic decline,

worsened recently by the national recession,

has hit communities throughout the state with

severe problems. And now, due to alling taxrevenue and state cuts to general revenue shar-

ing, Michigans rising unemployment and social

service needs are coupled with declining state

and local government scal capacity.

As the demand or public services has increased,

the ability to deliver them has allen.

Complicating things urther, the state is under-

going a large-scale economic transormation.

Michigans ormer industrial economy is giving

way to what many hope will be a 21st century

knowledge economyso what worked in the

past will not work in the uture.

Whatever Michigans uture economy looks like,

it is clear that the rules o the game are rapidly

changing. New strategies or economic and

workorce development are required to return

prosperity to the state.

The Ford Schools Center or Local, State, and

Urban Policy (CLOSUP) has launched an innova-

tive program o survey research to help Michigan

communities deal with these critical issues.

The Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS) is

unique: it is the only ongoing survey research

program in the country that targets every unit

o general purpose local government across an

entire state.

The intended respondents are the chie elected

and appointed ocials in every county, city,

township, and village in Michigan. Twice peryear, the surveys will gather actual data on

local government operations, as well as opinion

data on todays most pressing policy issues.

While the 2009 surveys will ocus on economic

and workorce development, the ultimate goal

o the MPPS is to oster improved quality o lie

in Michigan communities through better

policymaking.

CLOSUP planned and implemented the MPPS in

partnership with the Michigan Association o

Counties, Michigan Municipal League, and

Michigan Townships Association. The

launch o the MPPS and implementa-

tion o the rst two survey waves

will be unded by the W. K.

Kellogg Foundation.

Learn more:www.closup.umich.

edu.

rs t gm c MClOSUP to Suv loca Govmt las

Provide local public ocials with a betterunderstanding o the views and priorities o their

peers across the state, as well as o the programs

similar communities are developing to meet

todays challenges.

Identiy best practices or scal managementand or economic and workorce development,

given the economic transormation underway.

Enhance opportunities or intergovernmental/regional cooperation and coordination.

Give state-level policymakers a clear andcomprehensive view o the priorities and

challenges o communities across Michigan,

highlighting commonalities and dierences across

regions and community types.

Make possible analyses o convergence anddivergence in the attitudes and priorities o

Michigans local political leaders, citizens, and

business leaders on issues o scal policy, service

provision, and economic development in their

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T rt P t trt Tm, uttnatioa Povt Ct suvig cts o cssio a

a stimuus o Southast Michiga wos a amiis

Long aected by the loss o well-paid manu-

acturing jobs, workers and amilies in

Southeast Michigan have been hit espe-

cially hard by the current economic crisis.

Michigan has among the highest rates in the

nation or oreclosures, unemployment, and

personal bankruptcy lings.

The ederal government has poured stimulusunds into the region under the American

Reinvestment and Recovery Act, providing

direct aid to the disadvantaged and unemployed

and signicant additional unding to the automo-

bile industry.

This confuence o economic suering and the

rapid infux o government unds make Southeast

Michigan the right place at the right time to

explore the impacts o economic and public

policy changes.

Poverty researchers at the Ford School

have designed an ambitious new panel

survey that will help policymakers and

researchers better understand the

eects o the severe recession,

the housing crisis, and the

ederal stimulus unding

on workers and ami-

lies in the region.

Sheldon Danziger

and Kristin

Seeeldt lead

the re-

search

team,

which also

includes Ford

School aculty

Robert Schoeni

and Sandra Danziger,

as well as Institute or

Social Research health

economist Helen Levy and

U-M sociologist Sarah Burgard.

The study will explore the infuence

o the recession and the collapse o stock

and housing prices on the economic and

non-economic well-being o workers and ami-

lies, and will assess the extent to which social

welare programs and ederal stimulus spending

oset some o the negative eects o the econom-

ic crisis. It will also investigate the eects o

changes in exposure to economic hardships

and in the use o social programs on health

and socio-economic disparities between Arican

Americans and non-Hispanic whites.

Danziger says, Past research on job loss links

layos with signicant increases in health prob-

lems, in part due to increased stress. However,

none o that research has been conducted under

economic conditions like we have now. It could

be that were about to see health and emotional

problems increase dramatically.

On the other hand, Seeeldt points out that many

in the media report that recession adversity is

bringing amilies together. But stories like these

are anecdotal, she says. We need solid evi-

dence about how amilies are managing and

what types o public policies work best to miti-

gate hardships.

A stratied random sample o 1,000 households

in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties will be

surveyed. The survey instrument covers a com-

prehensive set o issues: demographics, employ-

ment and the labor market, income and assets

(including net housing worth), material hard-

ships, credit and debt, health and mental health,

and public program use. Researchers will eld

the rst survey wave this all, with subsequent

waves planned or 2010-2012.

The surveys that will be conducted this all

are supported by generous grants rom the Oce

o the Assistant Secretary or Planning and

Evaluation at the U.S. Department o Health and

Human Services, the Ford Foundation, and the

Oce o the Vice President or Research at the

University o Michigan.

Learn more: www.npc.umich.edu.

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Photo: Mike Savitski

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Stretched amily incomes, ewer

private sources o credit, and

rising tuition costswhile still

a key predictor o lietime earnings,

a college education has become harder

than ever to aord. Ford School

economist Susan Dynarskis research

has ocused on ways to close the

racial and socioeconomic gaps incollege entry, particularly around one

key actor: ederal nancial aid. Now

Dynarskis work is in the hands o the

policymakers who can put her recom-

mendations into practice.

The Obama Administration sees access

to higher education as both an equity

issue and a means o building a

skilled workorce prepared or the

economys rebound. In June, U.S.

Secretary o Education Arnie Duncan

announced signicant changes to theorm college students use to apply

or ederal nancial aid, the much-

maligned Free Application or

Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

The results? A shorter, simpler online

application orm; proposed legislation

to remove more than hal o the

nancial questions; the ability or

some amilies to re-use nancial data

op ds th et

Th Obama Amiistatio impmts Susa dasis sach o acia ai

already submitted to the IRS; and

ultimately, one ewer barrier to a

college education.

Secretary Duncans announcement

was the culmination o a long process

o policy engagement by Dynarski

and other academic researchers. In

2006, Dynarski and her co-author,

Judith Scott-Clayton, set out to con-

duct high-quality, nonpartisan re-

search on the costs and benets o

the complex process o applying or

ederal nancial aid. The researchers

concluded that with very little loss

o accuracy, the application process

could be reduced to a simple check-

box on tax returns, indicating the

desire to apply or nancial aid.

Inormation already collected by

the IRS could then be used by the

Department o Education to evaluateeligibility.

Reduced complexity would also help

amilies by enabling the Department

to communicate nancial aid deci-

sions earlier in the process, when the

inormation could more meaningully

help students make the decision to

apply to college. Dynarski and Scott-

Clayton asserted that this

set o reorms would improve the

eectiveness o the billions already

committed to higher education, al-

lowing aid to serve its intended goal:

opening college doors to those with

the ability but not the means to pur-

sue higher education.

In 2007, the Brookings-based

Hamilton Project commissioned a

nontechnical, policy-oriented version

o the original research papers. The

resulting publication, College Aid on

a Postcard, was widely picked up by

the mainstream press and specialty

publications such as The Chronicle of

Higher Education . Dynarski testied

beore Congress, participated in

countless conerence calls with policy-

makers, and met with nancial aid

administrators rom around the

country. Several presidential hopeuls Republicans as well as Democrats

incorporated the ideas into their

platorms. Dynarski was invited to

join the Rethinking Student Aid Study

Group, sponsored by the College

Board, and they included her recom-

mendations in an infuential publica-

tion last all.

Co-chaired by Sandy Baum, a senior

policy analyst or the College Board

and proessor o economics at

Skidmore College, the Study Group

assembled some o the most promi-

nent experts on higher education

nance in the country. Baum praised

Dynarskis contributions, noting that

in its deliberations, the group relied

heavily on Susans research and her

expertise, especially on the issue o

simpliying the application process

or student aid. The respect with

which the report has been received

has been signicantly enhanced by

Proessor Dynarskis reputation and

her role.

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The Departments FAFSA proposals

all short o the wholesale simplica-

tions recommended by Dynarski and

Scott-Clayton. But Dynarski believes

that the Administration is laying the

groundwork or more sweeping

changes while government agencies

resolve daunting implementation and

technical issues. She continues to

consult with House sta as the legis-lation enabling the initial simplica-

tions makes its way through

Congress.

For her body o work on student

nancial aid, Dynarski received the

prestigious 2009 Robert P. Hu

Golden Quill Award rom the National

Association o Student Financial Aid

Administrators (NASFAA). The award

was presented in August at the orga-

nizations annual conerence in San

Antonio, Texas.

The NASFAA reward is gratiying, but

the greater satisaction or Dynarski

was in seeing her work change public

policy. Im in this proession because

I believe that good academic research

can and should infuence policy.

Complexity in student aid dispropor-

tionately hurts the very groups the

loans are meant to support. Our re-

search pointed toward some clear

solutions to that problem, and its a

terric eeling to see those solutions

move toward implementation.

The Ford School will launch a new research center this all, a rst-

o-its kind initiative designed to shed light on how public policy can

most eectively navigate the opportunities and challenges posed by

societies that are becoming increasingly diverse locally, nationally, and

internationally.

International migration and dierential rates o birth and mortality con-

tinue to drive complex changes in the composition o communities, high-

lighting the need to conront their diversity in terms o culture, religion,

race, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status. Academic researchers

have tackled the resulting issues rom a variety o perspectives, including

the social sciences, education, business, and law. But with the opening o

the Center or Public Policy in Diverse Societies, the Ford School will behome to the rst university-based eort ocused specically on the public

policy issues associated with diversity.

The new center will build on intellectual resources rom around the

University as well as those already present at the Ford School. The center

will initially be unded by the U-M Provosts oce, the U-Ms National

Center or Institutional Diversity, and the Ford School. We will be seeking

unding support rom oundations and donors to sustain and expand the

work o the center.

ct P P ds Sts

Phd PogamFlurises

The Ford School has highly selective joint PhD programs withEconomics, Political Science, and Sociology.

76 students have entered the program since it began in all 2001.Weve graduated 6 joint Economics PhD students, 6 joint Sociology PhD

students, and 7 joint Political Science PhD students.

Career destinations have included tenure-track positions at universities suchas Princeton, Rutgers, Cornell, West Point, Claremont McKenna College, City

College o New York (CUNY), Colgate University, and Penn State; research

roles with think tanks such as Mathematica; and government positions with

the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.

Nearly 80% o the active students have been awarded ull- or multi-yearcompetitive ellowships and many have received prestigious national awards.

10 students are expected to complete their degrees within the next year.

Early joint PhD graduate

Jordan Matsudaira, now

Assistant Proessor at

Cornell (2005)

Wmig VesBk S

The University o Michigan and the Ford

School are pleased to announce a new

partnership with the U.S. Department o

Veterans Aairs called the Yellow Ribbon

GI Education Enhancement Program.

The Yellow Ribbon Programas its more

commonly knownwill benet military

veterans by providing unds to help

students cover tuition expenses above

those included in the original post 9/11 GI

Bill. The program is just one element o a

larger set o services the U-M provides to

help veterans transition successully rom

active duty to the academic community.

Learn more by contacting the Student

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bob axelroD is part o a project inter-

viewing senior Israeli and Palestinian

leaders to improve understanding about

what is really most important to each

side in resolving confict in the Middle

East. Among other issues, the group ex-

plored the potential impact o a joint wa-

ter project between Israel and Jordan to

connect the Red Sea with the Dead Sea.

The groups leader, Lord John Alderdice

o Northern Ireland, presented the

results o the work directly to George

Mitchell, President Obamas special

envoy or the Middle East.

Dr. Ken Pienta co-author with Axelrod

and David E. Axelrod o the 2006

National Academy o Sciences publica-

tion, Evolution o Cooperation Among

Tumor Cells has developed a drug in-

spired by their work together. The drug

will soon start Phase II trials with human

subjects.

SanDra DanziGer has a paper orth-

coming in the Annual Review o

Sociology (36), Decline o welare and

implications or poverty. Sandra has

begun a 3-year, McGregor Foundation-

unded project to evaluate the Family

Success Program o Starsh Family

Services in Inkster, MI. The program

provides support to economically dis-

tressed amilies with young children.

The Rockeeller Foundation selected

ShelDon DanziGer or a month-long

scholarly residency at its Bellagio Center

in Italy, where he presented a seminar,Four Decades o Antipoverty Policies.

With Maria Cancian, Sheldon is the edi-

tor o a new book rom the Russell Sage

Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing

Policies.

Associate Dean alan DearDorFF

gave a plenary address, Dangers and

Opportunities or Developing Countries in

the Current World Trading System, at

the 12th Annual Conerence on Global

Economic Analysis, UN-ECLAC, Santiago,

Chile in June. The Ford School and the

Economics Department will celebrate

Alans 65th birthday this year with a

Festschrit: a two day conerence called

Comparative Advantage, Economic

Growth, and the Gains rom Trade and

Globalization. Paul Krugman will be the

keynote speaker on Friday, October 2,

2009. Learn more and register: www.

ordschool.umich.edu.

John DinarDo has accepted a joint

appointment at the U-M Law School as

the schools chie statistics consultant.

The Law School has asked him to assist

aculty with projects that require statis-

tical analysis, and help those who may

eel statistically challenged to learn how

to survive in an increasingly quantitativeworld o scholarship.

JaMeS J. DuDerStaDt received honor-

ary degrees this spring at McGill

University and Dartmouth. In addition

to many other national and international

leadership activities, he is the co-chair,

with Je Sachs, o the National Science

Foundations Roundtable on Global

Sustainability.

eDie GolDenberG and co-author John

Cross have a new book out rom MIT

Press, Off-Track Profs: NontenuredTeachers in Higher Education.

brian JaCob was chosen by his alma

mater, the University o Chicagos Harris

School, as their distinguished alumni

speaker or the U o Cs 500th

Convocation, to be celebrated in October.

Mel levitSky accepted an invitation

to become a member o the Operating

Committee o the U-M Substance Abuse

Research Center (UMSARC).

In May 2009, the American Civil

Liberties Union led a lawsuit in the U.S.

Court o Appeals challenging the patent-

ability o genes linked to breast and

ovarian cancer susceptibility. Shobita

parthaSarathy , who wrote a book

comparing the development o genetictesting or breast cancer in the U.S. and

Britain in 2007 (entitledBuilding Genetic

Medicine), has been asked to le a decla-

ration in support o the ACLUs case.

The International Monetary Funds

Independent Evaluation Oce commis-

sioned a paper rom bob Stern titled

Trade in Financial Services: Has the

IMF Been Involved Constructively?

Jan SveJnar has accepted an invitation

to join the Editorial Board o the

European Economic Review. He was

co-organizer o the World Banks Annual

Bank Conerence on Development

Economics. The conerence, titled

Lessons rom East Asia and the Global

Financial Crisis, was held in Seoul,

South Korea in June. Jan is co-editor o

a new book rom Routledge titled,Labor

Markets and Economic Development.

The book is comprised o papers rst

presented at the Ford Schools

International Policy Center in May 2007.

katherine terrell and co-authorMichael Troilo won the IJGE/WAIB 1st

Annual Emerging Scholar Award in

Womens Entrepreneurship in June or

their paper Culture, Values and Female

Entrepreneurship. Katherine has orth-

coming publications in Labour Economics,

Economics o Transition, and World

Development. She and a team o re-

searchers are consulting with policymakers

rom three Central American countries

on the impact o minimum wages on

poverty. The results will be presented in

February 2010.

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DaviD thaCher published The

Cognitive Foundations o Humanistic

Governance, in vol. 12, no. 2 o the

International Public Management

Journal. He also contributed a paper

called Community Policing Without the

Police? The Limits o Order Maintenance

by the Community, to a comparative

volume called Community Policing and

Peacekeeping (London: Taylor and

Francis, 2009).

MariS vinovSkiS published From a

Nation at Risk to No Child Let Behind:

National Education Goals and the

Creation o Federal Education Policy

(New York: Teachers College Press,

2009). He was inducted as an American

Education Research Fellow in 2008.

Amnesty International USAs member-

ship elected SuSan waltz to a 3-year

term on the organizations governing

board.

Congratulations to Dean C. yanG, who

was promoted this all to Associate

Proessor o Public Policy, with tenure.

Two other aculty received promotions

this year as well: congratulations to

Sharon MaCCini (Lecturer IV) and

kriStin S. SeeFelDt (Assistant Research

Scientist). Kristins book, Working after

Welfare, was published this year by the

W.E. Upjohn Institute.

hig Pis f nw Bk

Associate Proessor anthony S. Chens

new book, The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics,

and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-

1972(Princeton University Press, 2009),

has garnered tremendous reviews or its

groundbreaking exploration and analysis

o the history o armative action.

While the book was in press, the SocialScience History Association named it the

2008 Presidents Book Award winner, an

award given each year to mark a meritorious

rst work by a scholar.

The Fifth Freedom, an expansion on Tonys

doctoral dissertation, connects the advent

o armative action with

battles over air

employment practices

legislation rom the

1940s to the 1970s.

hasarathy Yang Ciorciari Potter Chen

tw Pii SiissJi Fy

John D. CiorCiari is an Assistant

Proessor o Public Policy. His interests

include public international law, the theory

and practice o international relations, and

international nance. His current research

projects ocus primarily on Asia and

examine oreign policy strategies, human

rights, and the reorm o international

economic institutions in that region. Since

1999, he has been a legal advisor to the

Documentation Center o Cambodia,

which promotes historical memory and

justice or the atrocities o the Pol Pot

regime. He holds an AB and JD rom

Harvard and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. rom

Oxord, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

philip b. k. potter is an Assistant

Proessor o Public Policy. His primary

research interests are in international

security, political economy, and methods.

His current research explores the

relationship between interdependence

and international confict, the impact o

media on oreign policy, and the role o

networks in transnational terrorism.

Philip holds a BA rom McGill University,

a PhD rom the University o Caliornia,

Los Angeles and has been a ellow at

Harvard University and the University

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JonG-hae yoo, MPA 65, received

the Higashikuninomiya Cultural Awardrom the Japanese Imperial House or

Japan and Korean Cultural Exchange.

He served as a Proessor o Public

Administration at Yonsei University rom

1971-1996 and later as President o the

Korean Society or Public Administration.

MiChael (Mike) winn, MPP 71, looks

orward to attending the 95th re-

union. Mike works in DC and lives

with wie, Elizabeth, in Annapolis,

MD. Mike is taking the summer o to

enjoy Sherwood Forest, where they live.

SCott elliFF, MPP 78, recently

retired ater a career in the Oce o

Management and Budget, Executive

Oce o the President, and later in pri-

vate sector business consulting. Now

Scott owns and operates DuCard

Vineyards (www.ducardvineyards.com)

and is involved with non-prot boards,

including the Piedmont Environmental

Council and the Center or Nonprot

Excellence.

Sue poppink, MPP 83, earned tenure

at Western Michigan University,

Department o Educational Leadership in

June 2008. Her research interests are in

teaching practices and their relationship

with ederal and state policy, particularly

the Elementary and Secondary Schools

Act o 1965 and its reauthorizations.

DaviD norquiSt, MPP 89, is a partner

with Kearney and Company. He worked

or the ederal government or 19 years

in various positions, most recently as

Chie Financial Ocer o the Department

o Homeland Security. He is married andhas three children who dress themselves

in maize and blue on ootball Saturdays

despite living in Virginia.

Daniel polSky, MPP 89, welcomed his

second child, Issac Davis Polsky, to theamily on October 11, 2008. During the

2007-2008 academic year, he served as

a Senior Economist or the Presidents

Council o Economic Advisors, and in

June 2009, was promoted to ull proes-

sor o Medicine and Health Care

Management at the University o

Pennsylvania School o Medicine and

the Wharton School.

peter GroSS, MPP 93, started Dot Org

Consulting, which assists nonprot orga-

nizations with managing constituent re-

lationships, in November 2007. He and

wie Shelly adopted their second child

rom China in December, a antastic boy

named Wade (4.5 yrs), brother to Clara

June (6 yrs). Peter would love to hear

rom his ellow 93 grads at peter@do-

torgconsulting.net.

SuSan MClauGhlin, MPP 93, was pro-

moted to Senior Vice President at the NY

Fed last December.

Gary brown, MPA 95, recently com-

pleted a 2.5 year tour with the U.S.

Agency or International Development

in Aghanistan and is returning to Ann

Arbor in the all to obtain an MSW, with

an emphasis in individual practice and

mental health.

Dylan ConGer, MPP 95, and her

husband Michael Smith-Welch brought

home their youngest daughter, Julienne

Ejigayehu Conger (born June 29,

2008) rom Ethiopia in March 2009.

Julienne is healthy, happy, and beautiul

and adores her big sister, Camille.

holly Donnelly, MPP 96 and bob

Donnelly, MPP 95, are moving back to

the DC area. Holly spent the last ew

years at home with children, Helena (6

yrs) and Robby (4 yrs), and recently ac-

cepted a job with the General Services

Administration. Bob is the Senior Director

o Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson.

evanGeline Sophia DroSSoS, MPP

97, was promoted to Co-head o GlobalForeign Exchange Strategy at Morgan

Stanley. She and husband, Gabriel,

welcomed a son, Zachary Alexander

Ovanessian, in December.

holly b. anDerSon, MPP 98, and hus-

band Scott celebrated the birth o daugh-

ter Charlotte Jane Anderson on August 8,

2008. The amily, including son Ross (7

yrs), is absolutely in love with their new-

est member.

CraiG Garthwaite, MPP 01, nished

his PhD in Economics at the Universityo Maryland and has accepted a tenure

track position at the Kellogg School o

Management at Northwestern.

ben SoSSa, MPP 01, and Genene

FiSher SoSSa, MPP 01, live in Raleigh,

NC with their children, Lucas (3 yrs),

and, Soa (1 yr). Ater earning his MBA

at Duke, Ben recently returned to Duke

as Director o the Executive MBA

Programs. Genene continues to work on

science policy issues at the American

Meteorological Society and is an adjunctproessor at North Carolina State

University.

Stephen Stowe, MPP 01, and liSa

(berry) Stowe, MPP 00, welcomed

Elliot Michael Stowe on April 15,

2009. He joins big brother Daniel (3 yrs),

who is thrilled with his little brother.

Steve is a research analyst at Samson

Capital Advisors and Lisa is a business

analyst in the Markets Group at the

Federal Reserve Bank o New York.

walter braun ohler, MPP 02, andhis wie, Loren, are moving back to

Washington, DC where Walter will be

working at the U.S. Department o State

in Foggy Bottom ater two years as the

spokesman at the American Embassy in

Khartoum, Sudan.

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Pictured rom let to right are: Charlotte,

Scott, and Ross Anderson; Camille and

Julienne Conger; Eve Skrocki; Daniel and

Elliot Stowe; Sofa and Lucas Sossa;

Winn grandchildren; Grigori zoliko


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bulbul Gupta, MPP 04, Sukhi

DoSanJh, MPP 01, and Stephanie

holMeS, MPP 05, met in New Delhi,

India in March. Bulbul was in the city to

work and visit amily while Sukhi and

Stephanie were in New Delhi working or

USAID and the U.S. Embassy, respectively.

Stephanie SChMiDt, MPP 05, married

Scott Leiser (who recently nished his

PhD in cellular and molecular biology at

U-M) in May. They are moving to the

Seattle area or positions at the

University o Washington: Stephanie in

the PhD program at the Evans School o

Public Aairs and Scott as a postdoctoral

ellow.

aaron SkroCki, MPP 05, is back in

Ann Arbor where he completed his rst

year o MBA studies in the Ross School

o Business. Aaron previously worked in

international development with Catholic

Relie Services and the UN World Food

Programme. On February 11, 2009, he

and his wie welcomed a daughter, Eve

Elisabeth Skrocki.

Mikhail zolikoFF, MPP 05, and wie,Deborah, welcomed their new son,

Grigori Mikhailovich Zoliko, into the

world on March 1, 2009. They dont

know what they would do without him!

ChriS Dorle, MPP 07, recently

deployed to Aghanistan where he is

serving with USAID as a Development

Advisor to NATO/ISAF Headquarters.

GeoFF younG, MPP 07, was the recipi-

ent o Crains Detroit Business 20 in

their 20s award or his work on the

Detroit Region Aerotropolis Project.

Dina uFberG, BA 09, is completing a

Fulbright in Hong Kong where she will

conduct research and serve as an English

Teaching Assistant.

Fom Stat Stt to

Psyi a

In June, annie Maxwell (MPP 02) was

one o 15 named as 20092010 White House

Fellows. Selection as a White House Fellow ishighly competitive and based on a record o

remarkable proessional achievement early in

ones career, evidence o leadership potential,

a proven commitment to public service, and

the knowledge and skills necessary to

contribute successully at the highest levels

o the Federal government.

Annie is the Chie Operating Ocer o Direct

Relie International, a nonprot that through

humanitarian assistance improves the quality

o lie or people aected by poverty or

disasters in 59 countries including the U.S.

Annie served as chair and vice chair o the

Ford Schools Alumni Board. In addition to her

MPP rom the University o Michigan, Annie

received a BA in English and Political Science,

Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude. She

attended the U-M on a ull athletic scholarship

and was captain o the volleyball team.

bev GoDwin, MPP 82, is working in the

White House as Director o Online Resources

and Interagency Development at the Oce

o New Media @ The White House. This new

oce manages all the online media or the

President and Administration, including

WhiteHouse.gov and online citizen

engagement initiatives such as Open or

Questions, live chats, video, photos,

Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

Bev was also recently honored with the

Presidents Award rom the National Capital

Area Chapter o the American Society or

Public Administration, and she has been

nominated to be a Fellow at the National

Academy o Public Administration.

In MeMorIaM

howarD vauGhn Gary, MPP 72,

passed away February 15, 2009. Howard

broke ground as the rst black City

Manager o Miami, serving rom 1981-

1984. Howard was born Jan. 13, 1947,

in New York City. In addition to his IPPS

MPP, he earned under-

graduate degrees in po-

litical science and

state and hill: the ford school at 95

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