A Century of Impact 100 Years of Policy at Michigan 2 Gerald R

From Our Corner to the Four Corners of the Globe & SPRING 2014 The Magazine of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

A Century of Impact 100 Years of Policy at Michigan 2 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy

s we celebrate 100 years of preparing graduates for careers in public service, we’ve been exploring our school’s history and uncovering Asome marvelous stories. We’ve dedicated a full ten pages of this issue to a photo-rich walk through that history: the Progressive Era origins of our master’s program in 1914; the revolutionary sixties, when we shifted our focus from administration to policy; and the powerful role of new media today.

But choosing a dozen events a decade, on average, is no simple task. Of course you include the firsts—first director, first alumnus, first alumna, first Detroit internships, first endowment, and more—but what else goes in? What’s left out?

Ultimately, we chose to include steps forward, like our Bureau of Government Research, and steps back, like the fire that destroyed much of that bureau’s collections. We chose to include ongoing commitments, like the fact that professional experiences have been a required part of our curriculum from the start and that applied policy engagement is just as important now as it was in 1914. And we chose to include some of the world events that shaped today’s policies, and today’s policy challenges.

We also decided to include a number of stories that offer a flavor of our people, and our community. For the last 100 years, our school has prized people and community. The warmth and camaraderie here is palpable, and we hope that it will always be a part of what makes our school such a special place.

What have we left out? Far too much. Partly, because our research continues and partly because we’re out of space. As such, our plan is to release a far more thorough timeline during our 100th anniversary reunion at the end of October. That version, which will be permanently available online, can go on and on and on. And we hope that it will include many of the stories, memories, and photographs you share with us between now and then, and State & Hill those you make with us in the years ahead. Dean: Susan M. Collins Among the items that I know will be included in future timelines are the Associate Dean: Alan V. Deardorff programs and initiatives made possible with your support of our Next Century Director of Communications/Executive Editor: campaign. Toward that end, this issue also includes two campaign-related Laura K. Lee (MPP ’96) articles. One, about our very first endowment for student support, illustrates Associate Editor and Lead Writer: Erin Spanier the power of endowments to last and grow. The other, about alum Peter Contributors: Kat Bergman, William Foreman, Borish’s (AB ’81, MPP ’82) philanthropic ventures, highlights an equally Elisabeth Johnston, Tom O’Mealia, powerful approach to philanthropy. Zach Petroni (BA ’13), Erin Sullivan (MPP ’13), As always, I invite you to reach out and share news of your lives and Katie Trevathan accomplishments. And please, take a moment to mark your calendars Design: Savitski Design for a phenomenal Centennial Reunion celebration this fall. We hope to Photographers: Peter Smith, see you there. Michigan Photography Printer: University Lithoprinters, Inc. Sincerely,

Let us know what you think: [email protected], or Editor, State & Hill, Ford School, University of Michigan, 735 S. State Street, Susan M. Collins Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091

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The Magazine of the Gerald R. Ford School & of Public Policy y Co ll i ns Pho t o: L arr A century of impact 4 From the Progressive Era to the era of dissent and beyond Skin in the game 14 Elisabeth Gerber and students provide a service to public sector clients Fighting poverty like an IPPSter 18 Peter Borish applies analytics and creativity to for-profit and not-for-profit endeavors alike Hauling charcoal, studying conservation in Kenya 20 Zach Petroni on including people in the conservation equation What every alderman should know (about endowments) 24 New endowed funds for the next century of student support In addition

Policy students strike a pose, 1948 and 1995 The Danziger legacy 16 Discourse, Ford School faculty in the news 17 Soundbites, overheard @ Ford School events 22 Hybrid Justice and Armed with Expertise 23 Staebler: Call for nominations 29 The Centennial Reunion 31 Departments Ann Arbor, circa 1914 Faculty News & Awards 26 Class Notes 28 The Last Word 30 y, U n iv ers i t y o f Mi c hi gan y, Pho t o: B entle y H i st o r cal Li brar

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-4a24394 19th Amendment is ratified 19th on August 18, giving Over the last two years, 1920 American women the right to vote. County Building, downtown Detroit Wayne Photo: LOC, LC-DIG-det 1917 Capen A. Fleming becomes the first student to earn the Master of Municipal Administration degree. Following graduation, the Kansas native moves to San Francisco, where he will serve as manager of the Chamber of Commerce Department of Industry. United States declares war against Germany on April 6; Selective Service Act signed into law on May 18. 1919 I has War World many students prevented from continuing their studies; no municipal administration degrees are conferred this year. The University of Michigan opens a the Michigan Union building. It’s gathering space, but only for men. signed on Peace Treaty Versailles June 28; League of Nations established to promote world peace. Policy at Michigan. Lent D. Upson, first director of the Detroit Bureau of 1916 Government Research, is recruited to teach weekly seminars in municipal governance and to coordinate student internships in Detroit. His starting the bureau will salary: $0. Later, Research Council become the Citizen’s of Michigan. “The right to criticize government,” says Upson, “is also an obligation to know what you are talking about.” degree, in public First joint master’s works administration, offered with the department. engineering University’s Many more will follow. signs the Wilson President Woodrow Act on Commission Federal Trade September 26, 1914. The Federal Reserve System, established at the end of 1913, begins operations. ne hundred and one years ago, Jesse S. Reeves responded to S. Reeves responded to and one years ago, Jesse ne hundred inefficiency by calling with government frustrations America’s advanced degrees in of Michigan to offer on the University responded to that call, The University public administration.

focused on international While Reeves is primarily law (and in 1930 will serve as a technical advisor at University of Michigan announces the nation’s Reflecting Progressive Era frustrations with administration. the League of Nations Hague first master’s in municipal in municipal first master’s Conference), he believes “that

department, proposes America’s department, proposes America’s the University has a distinct of Michigan’s political science political of Michigan’s y Polic Public of chool rd S Fo r. rald ge and has never looked back, never stopped leading, never stopped serving. leading, never stopped looked back, never stopped and has never we offer a walk through our anniversary, In celebration of our centennial to the Ford School; from our first to IPPS; from SPP history—from IPA anniversary class. female alum to our 100th 1914 first graduate degree in municipal administration; a three-month professional experience in municipal governance is required for graduation. Crane, who served as consul Robert T. in Argentina and Guadalupe, is appointed director. A Bureau of Reference and Research in Government is established to ensure that courses are tied to the most pressing issues faced by municipal government leaders. 1913 government inefficiency and corruption, Jesse S. Reeves, chair of the University not only in offering a opportunity, public service to the people of the state [of Michigan]…but in leading the way in the training of municipal experts.” 16th Amendment permits a graduated income tax. By Erin Spanier O A century of impact.

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Ford 100Ford100Ford100Ford100 from the end of the Great Depression Smith goes on to serve as budget director for the state of Michigan, then as budget director for the U.S. under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He oversees the U.S. budget & Hill & State y The Institute of Public and Social Administration is been twenty-five years It’s since the launch of the yton Metro Librar Lent D. Upson D. Lent June 14, 1943

the cover of TIME, Harold D. Smith on Left: Charlotte Mary Conover Jones (circled) in Dayton Daily News, May 1, 1921 Photo: Da 1936 formed by an interdepartmental committee. The goal: to expand the curricular focus from municipal administration to public administration more broadly. A Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant allows for another expansion of Bureau of Government research. The primary focus: Michigan taxation and finance. Publications offer a condensed analysis of property tax delinquency, retail sales tax, highway finance, and more. 1939 Master of Municipal Administration degree program. All told, only sixty- seven students have earned the degree, an average of three per year. II begins as Germany War World invades Poland. to the launch of the United Nations and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Bank. World part of today’s The Social Security Act of August 14 provides aid for the elderly and others in need.

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A grant from the Horace H. Rackham estate allows the The degree program is discontinued for two years Franklin Delano Roosevelt inaugurated on March 4: In response to pressure In response to pressure from alumnae, the University Ione Dority ’23, ’27) (AB ABLS is hired to build the research

1934 Bureau of Government to expand research programs; bureau begins work on an analysis of fiscal policy during the Great Depression. 1935 due to low enrollment during the Great Depression, but Harold D. Smith, a 1925 alumnus, runs the research bureau while serving as first director 1931 1933 “... A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little “This nation asks return,” he says. for action, and action now.” of the Michigan Municipal League. 1929 Michigan of Michigan opens the open to students, faculty, League—it’s and staff, but only women. on October 29; Stock market crashes soon follow. Great Depression will collection in public administration. By 25,000 books gathered 1940, she’s and documents and nearly 50,000 pamphlets. The material is broad in scope, but Dority places special emphasis on materials of relevance to the State of Michigan.

Hidalgo, from the Besao Mountain Province of the Philippines. Hidalgo, the son of a rice farmer, will go son of a rice farmer, Thomas H. Reed takes over including Rudolfo Kawi on to represent his district in Reed continues the commitment to hands-on professional development as director, serving for the as director, city leader who served as manager of San Jose, California and executive secretary to California Governor Hiram Johnson. Reed places emphasis on practical municipal problems. Charlotte Mary Conover Jones becomes first alumna. As

also a municipal government also a municipal government students graduate this year, students graduate this year, the Philippine Legislature. who taught at Berkeley, but who taught at Berkeley, A number of international

next twelve years. Reed is an academic next twelve years. Reed opportunities for students, “You about teach all there is to know can’t You managing a city academically. cannot put it in the form of lectures, or get it into a textbook, and give it to a young man, and let him read it, and send him out a full-fledged city He has to cut his eye-teeth manager. upon some kind of a city manager problem.” 1927 field secretary for the Dayton Ohio Conover Voters, League of Women Jones helps coordinate citizenship schools for women, an active lecture series, and municipal research projects for local leaders. 1922

Hidalgo to know what you are what you know to about.” talking

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up o r G c i us M rd o nc Co o: t Pho PA faculty with Filipino IPA administrators, c. 1952 Institute staff conduct a comparative study of (MPA ’63, PhD Larry Mohr (MPA The institute opens a field office on the ninth floor of U.S. Agency for International International for Agency U.S. Development grant allows ’66) meets Odetta at a North 1958 the prison camps in Canada and U.S., as well as several state studies on administrative service growth, compensation, natural workmen’s resources management, controls on state agency spending, and more. 1953 Beach bar in San Francisco. The two will go on to record the live folk/blues album, Odetta and Larry (aka The Tin Angel), released by Fantasy Records the following From year. hisuntil 1966 retirement in 1999, Larry will teach scores of aspiring public servants at U-M. 1957 the Bank of Lansing building. Lansing staff coordinate research projects for state clients and organize internships for public administration students. 1952 faculty to help establish the National College of Public Administration and Governance at the University of the Philippines. Letters from Manilla discuss the resurrection of Rizal Hall (after WWII bombing damage), residential and in-service courses for current and future public servants, a and more. growing library,

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Ford’s first campaign Ford’s

serves Lederle John W. as director from 1950-1960 The Institute of Public The Institute of Public Administration is born, June 5, Marshall Plan pledges support to European The October Newsletter

to Graduates reports, “If when he leaves to become president of the University of Massachusetts. A Lederle consults former Detroit lawyer, for the United States House and Senate and serves on a number of state boards and commissions. In an arrangement with the U.S. Department of State, the institute hosts eleven young German administrators for a five-month democracy program. Haven Hall burns down. No one is badly hurt, but the Bureau of Government collections suffer extensive damage. About a third of the much of collection is beyond recovery, the rest is water-logged. 1950 executive led by an interdisciplinary directors. committee of deans and nations to rebuild after WWII. 1949 we get very much prouder of all our graduates, we’ll be bursting at the seams… we can boast of 2 city managers, 3 administrative assistants to city managers, 3 “professors,” 11 in as state government, 2 at Washington, well as numerous graduates scattered through personnel and planning agencies, citizens’ groups, research offices, etc. from Maine to California. Not bad, for a post-war crop…” Gerald R. Ford runs for his first public office to support the Marshall Plan— wins his U.S. Congressional seat with an impressive 60.5 percent of the vote. 1946 1947

Photo: UN Photo/Yould IPA Ward, center, late 1930s center, Ward, The United Nations is formed on October 24. Bretton Woods Conference Bretton Woods is held July 1–22, gathering World War II interrupts the War World studies of many students Mary Ellen Heitsch Ward graduates. The only female

graphic: USAID y Polic Public of chool rd S Fo r. rald ge 1945 1944 hundreds of delegates from Allied Nations to regulate monetary practices. 1941 and class offerings are reduced. The required professional experience is maintained through a partnership with Commission. Civil Service Michigan the 1940 as announced in her class, she’s at commencement. Heitsch” “Mr. She is engaged in public service and and becomes administration ever after, a particularly passionate advocate for people living with disabilities, a cause she serves for more than five decades.

Ford6 100Ford100Ford100Ford100 Ford7 100Ford100Ford Help us tell100 your story: fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion/memoriesFord100 & Hill & State Lansing field office closes. Ferrell Heady, director of the A comprehensive review of the institute is launched, led University of Michigan faculty organize first teach-in 1967 institute, recruited to the University of New Mexico. November 29, Robert McNamara resigns his post as Secretary of Bank. Defense to lead the World McNamara and his “whiz kids” employed advanced statistical methods and systems analysis to streamline the Pentagon. They also contributed to the escalation of the War. Vietnam 1968 by an interdisciplinary advisory council that deliberates on the future of public administration. The council believes many practical skills can be learned on the job, and suggests refocusing the curriculum on “an analytic toolkit” and cutting-edge “problem-solving methodologies.” Two-hundred and fifty-one students Two-hundred last 25 years, an have graduated in the average of ten per year. Act on Johnson signs Civil Rights Act on July 2, Economic Opportunity Act on August August 20, Food Stamp 31, and others. 1965 Thousands to protest the war in Vietnam. will follow of students attend. Teach-ins at universities around the nation. Photo: Bettmann/CORBIS

President Lyndon Johnson President Lyndon delivers “Great Society” high-speed computers will make it easier to handle scores of variables, and will reduce the effort and cost of analyzing data; greater methodological sophistication, more sophisticated theories, and more studies confirming causal relationships; a combined empirical-normative approach; a closer relationship to the policy process that will “force researchers to have a concern for value judgments based on the[ir] research findings;” better and more relevant information for decision-making, but no easy answers for administrators; and the continued growth of interdisciplinary studies and more research in which a given problem is approached simultaneously with different techniques. At a panel on the future of public (MPA administration, Deil S. Wright ’54, PhD ’57) sums up the first fifty years of research, and tries to peer predictions ahead to 2014. Wright’s include: • • • • • • Nice prognosticating. 1964 “The speech at U-M commencement. abundance and Great Society rests on an end to liberty for all. It demands that poverty and racial injustice….But is just the beginning.” Thomas H. Reed (director 1922-1934) returns for the 50th anniversary of the program. In the 1920s and early ’30s, says Reed, “we generally patted ourselves on the back that we were doing something unique here.” That’s no longer the case. Similar training programs have sprung up at a number of universities.

U.S. Agency for International Development contract sends Ferrel Heady, one of the founders of comparative 1962 to assist in the faculty to Taiwan IPA development of National Chengchi of Public Department University’s Administration. 1960 is appointed public administration, He believes director of the institute. students that all public administration about the should be knowledgeable governance systems used abroad, and advocates for incorporating a comparative perspective into all courses. In 1966, Heady publishes Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective, now in its sixth edition. announces the Kennedy John F. concept of the Peace Corps during a Presidential campaign stop on the steps of the Michigan Union. “How many of you who are going to be doctors are willing to spend your days in Ghana?” he asked the students huddled around the steps. U-M students rally around the concept and more than a thousand pledge to serve. Bank of Lansing Building, home of the Lansing Field Office John F. Kennedy announces Kennedy John F. the Peace Corps Gerald Ford on the Nixon pardon on the Nixon Ford Gerald

John Chamberlin offers first seminar on ethical First endowment is of established in honor President Carter launches Presidential Management Deardorff in Korean press 1978 issues of concern to policymakers. This will become a core component of the in the years ahead. curriculum school’s Robert Axelrod begins research for The Evolution of Cooperation (Basic Books, 1984). The book, which has been translated into 12 languages and is taught and read around the world, earns him a MacArthur Foundation genius grant (in 1987) and the first National Academy of Sciences award for “behavioral research relevant to the prevention of nuclear war.” “IPPS Goes International.” Newsletter announces a new international track to prepare students for mid-level Bank, positions at USAID, the World the United Nations, and other agencies. All track instructors are named Bob: Bob Putnam, Bob Stern, Bob Axelrod, Bob Powell, and Alan “Bob” Deardorff, who teaches “International Economic Policy.” 1976 Bromage, a beloved faculty Arthur W. member and public administrator. in Ford signs the Government 13, Sunshine Act on September narrowing the authority of agencies to withhold information from the public and requiring most agencies to give advance notice of meetings and to hold them openly. 1977 Intern Program to entice public management graduates into federal service. First IPPS PMIs are Andy Moxam and Stephen Deal. In the coming years, 141 alumni will accept Presidential Management Fellowships.

“It could go on and on and on, or and on, and on go on “It could it.” end to the must write someone serves as Jack L. Walker director of the Institute of Vice President Spiro President Vice Agnew resigns and in T. Walker with President Ford Walker He encourages faculty to take leaves of absence to serve government agencies. “When faculty members return,” he says, they immediately see ways to improve the curriculum, “to better prepare students entry into government.” He pushes for to integrate realistic problem-solving exercises into policy courses. IPPS PhD and postdoc programs are launched with gifts from the Ford Foundation and National Institute of Mental Health. Early graduates include Patrick Larkey (MPP ’71, PhD ’75), who goes on to direct the Department of Social and Decision Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and John Padgett (MA/MPP ’74, PhD ’78), who becomes professor of political science, and sociology at the University history, of Chicago. Ford grants Nixon full pardon. Foreseeing a long litigation, bitter divisive national debate, controversy, and challenges to the credibility of government at home and abroad, Ford says, “It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must.” 1974 Public Policy Studies from 1974–79. she quips. Japan begins to send competitively selected public administrators to IPPS 100 More than for graduate study. Japanese administrators will enroll in the program in the years ahead. 1973 appointshis place, Richard Nixon Gerald R. Ford (AB ’35, HLLD ’74). Ford.Nixon congratulates Betty condolences?”“Congratulations? Or Crecine and colleagues Crecine First Master of Public Policy degrees awarded. U-M students protest war and discrimination. y Polic Public of chool rd S Fo r. rald ge 1971 1970 A massive teach-in on the environment is held in March, attracting roughly 50,000. Across the nation, the first Earth Day events on April 22 draw 20 million. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established December 2. is year old Pat Crecine Twenty-nine appointed director of the transitioning institute and serves in that capacity recruited to until 1973, when he’s first dean, Carnegie-Mellon where he’s then senior vice president and provost. In 1987, Crecine becomes the 9th president of Georgia Tech. The Institute of Public Policy Studies the nation’s (IPPS) is launched; it’s first public policy degree program (others will soon follow). Crecine and his colleagues dramatically reshape the curriculum. The pioneering interdisciplinary social science core emphasizes economic and statistical analysis, an understanding of the and political environment of policy, the importance of organizations to successful implementation. This will become the gold-standard approach, employed by policy schools everywhere.

8 Ford100Ford100Ford100IPPS Ford100 Ford9 100Ford100Ford Help us tell your100 story: fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion/memoriesFord100 & Hill & State Scientists discover hole in ozone. earth’s Edie Goldenberg becomes “Ned Gramlich, the Mr. “Ned Gramlich, the Mr. is Rogers of the policy world, the first female director of the

1985 1987 institute—during her two-year tenure, she helps to lay the groundwork for transition to a school. Edie’s IPPS’s next post? Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts— a role she’d fill for nearly a decade. O’Dowd Elena Delbanco replaces Tish as IPPS’ part-time writing tutor. Increasing numbers of students turn to her for help and over time, additional writing instructors are hired. Today, three instructors teach writing courses and work one-on-one with the Ford like to say the students. We’d School’s intense focus on policy writing school’s is “unique,” but Delbanco outlawed that word here years ago. 1983 directorship stepping down from his IPPS RIPPS. as of July 1,” reports Paul Courant, “a man of different (shorter) temperament, a modern-day years influenced Rasputin, who has for the decisions of Milktoast Gramlich,” takes the reigns from 1983-1987. Later asked if he anticipates any significant changes in the structure of the institute, Courant responds, “Not Helene [McCarren] will still be really, running the place.” Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) program is launched by the Sloan Foundation in a national effort to help underrepresented minorities prepare for leadership roles in public service. IPPS signs on, and has never looked back—a point of pride. During three decades, more than 15 percent of the 4,000 Public Policy and International Affairs Fellows will complete their studies in Ann Arbor. Alumni include Foreign Service officers with USAID, senior policy advisors to the United Nations, vice presidents at major corporations, program managers at national nonprofit advocacy groups, and more. Gerald Ford on the Nixon pardon on the Nixon Ford Gerald

“IPPS Automates,” designing “IPPS Automates,” designing software to replace faculty, Goldenberg Courant 1981 reports IPPS RIPPS, an irreverent stormed the student newsletter that “Michael institute from 1981-83. Cohen, found packing his bags ‘I kept for California, muttered, emphasizing the human factor and job satisfaction, but once they got rolling, there was no stopping them. They just kept screaming, ‘Efficiency, Automation, Computerization!’” Among the authors of IPPS RIPPS, Jeff Mackie-Mason (MPP ’82), now dean of the U-M School of Information. Edward (Ned) M. Gramlich serves first stint as director Chamberlin Gramlich He’ll of the institute from 1979-83. too; then a third. serve a second stint, economist, A nationally recognized decades Ned spends the next public service balancing prominent commissions (Governor of the Federal Reserve Board among them) with the mentoring and training of aspiring public servants. Fifteen policy schools and research institutes become charter members of the Association of Public Policy and among them, Management (APPAM); the Institute of Public Policy Studies. Department of Education Organization Act signed October 17. 1979 “It could go on and on and on, or and on, and on go on “It could it.” end to the must write someone Personal Responsibility Personal Responsibility Opportunity and Work Last class of the millennium arrives; the class of 1999 Management Center is The Nonprofit and Public

First official “Applied Policy Seminar” offered, putting students to work commissioned on a semester-long assignment for a public sector client. In 1997, students analyzed the revenue impacts of a city income In 1998, they tax for Ann Arbor. conducted research for a number of community-based development organizations in Detroit. Ford School is accepted into the prestigious Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs; in 2013, Ford School Dean Susan M. Collins will be elected president. 1998 Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house (at Epsilon fraternity house Sigma Phi of State and Hill Streets) the corner razed, The house will be burns down. a parking lot, and will replaced by a site for the newly one day provide Fraternity members promoted school. efforts, and support the construction in their honor. a study room is named 1996 22. Reconciliation Act, August 1997 Forty-six percent includes 63 students. are students of are women, 27 percent and 10 percent are international. color, launched in a joint venture with the schools of business and social work; is founding co-director. Janet A. Weiss Since 2010, nearly 200 Ford School students have participated in the premier programs, including center’s its Social Impact Challenge, nonprofit board fellowship program, and Social Innovation Summit.

“Greetings from Ann Arbor, “Greetings from Ann Arbor, home of the new School of IPPS News reports Act, Implementation NAFTA December 8 Ned Gramlich, previously contracted by Major League opens the newsletter. Public Policy,” The promotion to schooldom provides SPP with self-governance and most to hire enables the school importantly, faculty and grant tenure. Ned Gramlich first dean. becomes the school’s Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, March 22; Lobbying Disclosure Act, December 19. 1993 1994 of baseball cards, minus the gum. 1995 1992 , and Paul Elena Delbanco, Carl Simon up Courant, once again fail to come , “Jim Levinsohn, Gary Solon skit.” More (or with a funny holiday skits remain less) entertaining holiday the Ford School.an ongoing tradition at Energy Policy Act, October 24. Baseball for an analysis of economic questions of interest to players and owners, is tapped for a UM-Flint Trading “Economists professor’s Cards,” the academic equivalent SPP The Ford School Committee the Committee (originally, Alumni/ae Advisory Board Alumni/ae Advisory Board “The meets for the first time, With initial funding from the initial funding With Foundation Rockefeller y Polic Public of chool rd S Fo r. rald ge 1991 for IPPS), begins to meet regularly to promote and increase private support research, and students, for the school’s policy engagement. Michael Staebler ’69), a senior partner with Pepper (JD Hamilton LLP and son of former Democratic State Chairman Neil Staebler ’26), serves as founding chair. (AB 1990 part of what I advent of the Board is as the “growing am coming to think of , up” of IPPS,” says Paul Courant stints as director. during one of several “In addition to being a window on the practice,” Courant says, “I hope that the Board will also serve as a door (or, teleporter) perhaps, as a Star Trek-like between IPPS in Ann Arbor and IPPS in the rest of the world.” “The IPPS computing center (i.e., closet) has recently become a much happier place,” reports the newsletter. Peter Borish (MPP ’82) donates six personal computers with printers and software for use by IPPS students. National Affordable Housing Act, November 28. 1989 support from the Ford and ongoing Sheldon Danziger Foundation, postdoctoral training organizes a public policy program on poverty and for minority scholars. of the Seventy-fifth anniversary years, program. In the last twenty-five the program, 783 have graduated from year. an average of 20 per Alumni Board meets with PPIA students, c. 1990 Ford 10 100Ford100Ford100Ford100 Ford11  Help us 100tell your story: fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion/memoriesFord100Ford100Ford100 & Hill & State Ford School receives a $5 million award from A crowd watches on as President and Betty Ford join 2002 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to host the National Poverty Center. 2004 the groundbreaking ceremony for Joan Hall, the school’s and Sanford Weill future home. Newsletter reports, nomadic “Throughout the school’s of home has been a state history, mind.” Over the last 90 years, the school has taken refuge in the library, Angell Hall, the law building, Haven Hall, Rackham Building, Lorch Hall, the Huron Annex, the Oakland Annex (staff will throw rocks, quite literally, and, according torn down) when it’s to legend, a space above a nightspot called the Nectarine Ballroom. Ford School begins U.S./China academic exchange with Renmin University’s School of Public Administration.

Behind Act. bipartisan No Child Left George W. Bush signs Bush signs George W. January 23, President CLOSUP, the Center for Local, the Center CLOSUP, is State, and Urban Policy,

Princeton, and Yale including Duke, Harvard, Blank with President Ford Blank with President and most with prestigious universities, 2001 founded with an allocation from the state legislature; Elisabeth Gerber is The recruited as founding director. goal: to ensure continuous engagement academic researchers between U-M’s and the stakeholders and policymakers working to address state, local, and urban policy problems. Some $12 million is contributed to endowment fund this the school’s most gifts in honor of Gerald R. year, Ford. Endowment funds support a variety of initiatives, including faculty professorships, lectures and public speakers, a policymaker-in-residence program, and more. Joint-PhD program established with economics, political science, and sociology; Mary Corcoran serves as In the first ten years, founding director. 38 students will earn the degree and find policy organizationssome with positions, To honor and celebrate its most most honor and celebrate its To distinguished alum, the University of Michigan names the policy school after President Gerald R. Ford. In 2001, the school marks the occasion ceremony at Hill major naming with a Auditorium. Henry Kissinger delivers the keynote. publishes a Times The New York stirring letter from President Ford, publicly and forcefully voicing his support for affirmative action as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a case against the University of Michigan’s want admission practices. “I don’t future college students to suffer the cultural and social impoverishment that afflicted my generation.”

Rebecca Blank becomes dean. During her tenure, International Economic Development Program students in Jordan Blank with Weill Hall construction crew Blank with Weill

Students propose a new international economic development course. They’ll investigate select a country for study, its most pressing development issues, and plan a week-long spring break visit that will allow them to meet with policymakers. In the next ten years, roughly 250 students will participate, visiting Cuba, Ethiopia, Jordan, Peru, the Philippines, and other nations.

First Integrated Policy Exercise is taught by Ann Lin. The focus: sweatshop course became a required The labor. component of the curriculum, and has been taught annually ever since. 1999 in honor the school will be renamed ; launch of President Gerald R. Ford and a new a joint-PhD program establish three undergraduate degree; and construct major research centers; and Sanford Weill a new building, Joan from hundreds Hall, with contributions of alumni and friends. U.S. State Department sends the sends the U.S. State Department Diplomat-in-Residence: school its first five , who speaks Dan Turnquist and has spent a quarter- languages as a labor officer century working countries. in nine different

ea S o: t Pho space ject o r P WiFS MAGE I RB O and , enter C t h g i l F pace S ddard NASA/Go , March 23, Affordable Care Act; July 21, Dodd-Frank. With startup funding from With Kellogg Foundation, the W.K. 2010 2009 Michigan CLOSUP works with the Michigan Municipal League, the and the Association of Counties, Association to Michigan Townships Public Policy launch the Michigan Survey (MPPS), a longitudinal survey of the chief elected and appointed officials township, and city, in every county, village in Michigan. “Alum Annie Maxwell (MPP ’02) Congrats named White House Fellow. Annie! bit.ly/b3nkL” Awww…our Tweets later…most Tweet! 3,175 first “Betsey Stevenson appointed to RT’d? Council of Economic President Obama’s .” Advisers. ow.ly/TNMx Collins Economic Stimulus Act, February 13; Housing and Students visit the of China Great Wall Economic Recovery Act, July 30. 2008 mentions quintuples during her tenure, mentions quintuples in 2013. from 500 in 2008 to 2,600 2013 and over Ben Bernanke visits in dialogue Twitter 11 million people see about the event. students begin their First bachelor’s John studies at the Ford School; Chamberlin, founding director of the program, calls them “incredibly bright students who rip up every class they take.” fellowships graduate School offers Ford to returned Peace Corps volunteers preparing for careers in public service who commit to intern in underserved communities. The program has Peace attracted close to four-dozen Corps volunteers since inception. Susan M. Collins joins the Ford School as dean. “Those of you who always “Those of you who always lounge thought that a student The International Policy Center is founded 2007 An international economist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Collins’ research focuses on economic growth in developed and developing economies. At the Ford School she works to dramatically raise the school’s visibility by hosting more events and attracting high-profile speakers. The annual number of Ford School media 2006 consists of two couches at the end of the hallway? Come see the new graduate student lounge,” boasts Becky Blank, anticipating the construction of Hall. “While our alumni, faculty, Weill and current student body demonstrated an admirable ability to look beyond the physical in recognizing the Ford future recruits will attributes, School’s be spared that particular test.” and The Science, Technology, Public Policy certificate program is launched; Shobita Parthasarathy and Jim Duderstadt (former U-M President) co-direct. Recipients have gone on to prestigious positions with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Government Accountability New Office, Department of Energy, Office, and more. City Mayor’s York John Hieftje, is The mayor of Ann Arbor, recruited to teach “Local Government, Opportunity for Activism.” Gerald R. Ford is unable to attend the dedication of Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, but his prepared remarks are read by Steve Ford, his son. “In this era of spin and sound bites, of raised voices and clenched fists, it is easy to hands in exasperation throw up one’s or disgust. But whoever said that democracy is easy?” 2005 research to foster interdisciplinary in and education for policymaking world. an increasingly globalized

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& Hill & State Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Joan and Sanford Weill In the last twenty-five years, 2,094 students have earned July 14 marks 100th anniversary of the birth of Gerald R. Ford. Ford School hosts Carla Paul O’Neill, Henry Kissinger, Frank Zarb, Hills, Brent Scowcroft, and others from his administration. 2014 public policy and public administration degrees at the school, an average of 84 per year. the 100th anniversary In September, anticipate 105 class will arrive. We 65 bachelor’s candidates, master’s candidates, 6 joint-PhD candidates, and 7 who will work toward certificates in science and technology policy. than 150 schools in more Today, America, and many others across the world, offer degrees in public policy.

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Student-led charity auction 2013 sausage- guided tours of Detroit, of making classes, growlers homemade hard cider….Student-led Forever Go Blue charity auction wins philanthropy award from U-M. ” turn. your

Education Policy Initiative launched by Susan Dynarski From the Great Hall, to From the Great Hall, a new course the Great Wall:

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Gerald Ford Gerald democracy is easy? democracy But whoever said that But whoever up one’s hands in up one’s voices and clenched voices

fists, it is easy to throw to throw easy fists, it is sound bites, of raised of raised sound bites, fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion/memories. fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion/memories. as be building a longer web-based timeline We’ll  at Please share your stories and pictures we celebrate our centennial this summer and fall. 2012 and Brian Jacob to lead rigorous research that informs education policy debates in Michigan and across the nation. Barry Rabe launches National Surveys on Energy and Environment (NSEE) in collaboration with Muhlenberg College. The surveys gather opinions about climate change, hydraulic fracturing, and other topics. to China to takes students and faculty study contemporary policy. to commemorateThe Ford School helps of the Peacethe 50th anniversary Corps; national symposium, “Charting the Future of International Service.” 2011 “In this era of spin and “In this era 14

Skin in the game Applied Policy Seminar puts students to work for local governments, NGOs By Jeff Mortimer

hen Susan Pollay, executive director some amazing ways to convey information that of the Ann Arbor Downtown I might not otherwise be able to convey about Development Authority (DDA), wanted what our DDA does, how we do it, and how to document the economic impact of effectively we do it. I just used it yesterday, Wher organization and others like it sharing the contents with someone in the around the state of Michigan last fall, she county community development department.” sought help from the Ford School. While Pollay well understands the educational Development authorities like Pollay’s are value the students receive, “this was clearly a funded through a mechanism called Tax benefit to me as someone who’s working in the Increment Financing, which allows them to community.” capture some of property tax growth from new Public service has been a vital part of the construction in their district—funds that would mission of the Ford School and its antecedents otherwise go to other local taxing entities. from the start, through commissioned research As those entities’ budgets have become projects, faculty service to government increasingly stretched, though, this mechanism agencies, and an insistence that students has been increasingly questioned. “Four students who were incredibly smart, incredibly creative, and incredibly experienced for their age did an amazing job to put together as professional a report as I have ever seen.” — Susan Pollay, Ann Arbor DDA

Although Pollay thought the project would be engage in professional internships to earn a good fit for the Applied Policy Seminar, a their degrees. From 1913 into the 1960s, the semester-long graduate course in which teams program’s Bureau of Government conducted of students serve as consultants for community policy research for dozens of state, county, organizations, the quality of the product, and and local governing bodies. Later, individual the experience, blew her away. faculty integrated applied policy projects into their courses, and in 1997, the school launched “We are very happy campers,” she says. “We a new graduate course, the Applied Policy would do it again in a heartbeat. Four students Seminar (APS), to continue the tradition. who were incredibly smart, incredibly creative, and incredibly experienced for their age did In the early years, Applied Policy Seminar an amazing job to put together as professional students generally worked for a single client, a report as I have ever seen. The intelligent, but in 2010, the format was changed to thorough approach they took resulted in an allow small teams of students to assist a

outstanding final product that has served in larger number of organizations. Since then, A nn rb o r .o rg ST reet scene Pho t o s : V i 15

25 nonprofit organizations, government clients, the ones who put the most skin into the agencies, and foundations have benefited from game, who get the most out of the students,” APS students’ consulting skills. Partnerships Gerber says. “Projects often take on a life of with some organizations—such as Macomb their own, and there’s a lot of education for the County, MI; the City of Adrian, MI; Direct Relief organization, too, as they start to see things International; The Heat and Warmth Fund; and in a different light. Students inject some new the U.S. Government Accountability Office— ideas into how organizations think about their have been sustained for multiple semesters. problems, their questions, their planning.” “There is tremendous demand for this,” says This is especially true when, as is often the Elisabeth R. Gerber, the Jack L. Walker Jr. case, the client is exploring expanded activities Professor of Public Policy, who teaches the APS. or program development. “A big piece of what “I barely have to mention that I’m doing this they get from our students is a fresh eye on and people start pulling out their lists of all whether it makes sense to move into a new the things they would love for a team of Ford area,” she says. “Our students come in from School students to work on. The problem for outside and provide that fresh perspective, me is having enough students.” which is a hard thing for people on the inside. We hear clients say, ‘Your students helped There are several criteria for winnowing us understand a better way to do what we’re applicants, but “some of our best clients come doing to avoid pitfalls, and also helped us to us through alumni connections,” she says. identify new opportunities.’” “Typically, with them, the fit is really good, the scope is appropriate, the project reflects It was the opportunity for such public the interests of our students, and the client engagement that lured Gerber back to her alma understands what their skills and competencies mater in 2001 after a decade of teaching and are—what you can and cannot do in a 14-week consulting on the West Coast. semester with three or four students working “That’s really what brought me here,” she says, 15 hours a week apiece.” “the ability in my own work to do exactly the Unlike the Ann Arbor DDA, what makes clients kind of thing the students do in the Applied “happy campers” is not always the outcomes Policy Seminars, to work with organizations on they sought. real policy problems and embark on the kind of engaged scholarship that the Ford School “It’s not the ones who get what they think they really manifests and facilitates.” ■ want in the beginning, but the most engaged

hen Elisabeth R. Gerber was “Jack was a highly influential advisor and Wawarded a collegiate professorship mentor to me,” she says. “His work on by the University of Michigan Board of political representation profoundly Regents in 2012, one of the highest influenced my intellectual development honors the university can bestow on a and the course of my research career. He faculty member, she chose to have her was also a good guy—generous, friendly, chair named after Jack L. Walker, Jr., thoughtful, and supportive.” a distinguished professor of public policy Gerber delivered the Jack L. Walker, Jr., and director of the Ford School’s lecture, on “metropolitan areas, regionalism, predecessor, the Institute of Public and the politics of intergovernmental Policy Studies, from 1974 to 1979. cooperation,” in April to commemorate her appointment. 16 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy

Sheldon Danziger to retire from the University of Michigan

his year, Sheldon H. Danziger took This April, dozens of phenomenally impressive a leave of absence to serve as the poverty researchers—a more brilliant Ttenth president of the Russell Sage collaborative, caring, and diverse group for Foundation, the premier foundation devoted Sheldon’s tireless commitment to them as exclusively to social science research. students and colleagues—flew in from distinguished universities across the country With great happiness for him, and an equal to help us celebrate Sheldon’s legacy. measure of sadness for us, we report that Sheldon will continue on at Russell Sage and Sheldon and his wife, Sandra K. Danziger, retire from our faculty at the end of 2014. have created a new permanent endowment to support undergraduate and master’s From the moment Sheldon joined our faculty students pursuing unpaid or low paying in 1988, our school was “on the map” as summer internships in social welfare policy one of the nation’s strongest social policy and research. Gifts to the Sandra and programs. In 1989, with seed funding from Sheldon Danziger Fund will honor Sheldon Sheldon H. Danziger, the Rockefeller Foundation and ongoing President, Russell Sage and his lifelong contributions to research Foundation support from the Ford Foundation, he launched and teaching. ■ an incredibly successful postdoctoral fellowship program in poverty and policy for under- Look for more on Sheldon and the Research represented minorities. In 2002, he and and Training Program in Poverty and Public Rebecca Blank founded the National Policy in the fall edition of State & Hill. Poverty Center here at the Ford School.

Ford School Spotlight

Eighteen graduate students studied Myanmar for this year’s International Economic Development Program, then spent spring break in the country on a trip led by Professors Philip Potter and Allan Stam. Students met with a wide range of NGOs and policy shops, including the Myanmar Peace Center, the World Bank, and the U.S. Embassy, to learn more about the challenges and opportunities that await the burgeoning democracy of Myanmar.

Each spring, Ford School faculty and staff nominate dozens of outstanding student research, engagement, and service projects for recognition at the Gramlich Showcase of Student Work. The annual event honors internationally-renowned economist and former Ford School dean, Ned Gramlich. State & Hill 17 Discourse

“They have made an assessment that they could get away with this.” Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky on Russia’s use of force in Ukraine. U.S. News & World Report, March 7, 2014.

“Absent a government willing to “We have a repayment address high unemployment and crisis because student inequality of opportunity, the ‘lost decade’ of economic progress loans are due when in the 21st century is on track to borrowers have the least last for a second decade.” capacity to pay.” Sheldon H. Danziger, on the persistent effects Susan M. Dynarski, highlighting her student loan reform of the Great Recession. Huffington Post op-ed, proposal to set monthly payments as a percentage of November 9, 2013. income. Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2013.

“What would happen if all the time, talent, and money expended in making sure we pay what the law requires, but not one penny more, were put to more productive uses?” Marina v.N. Whitman, calling for tax code reform. Detroit Free Press op-ed, February 8, 2014.

“Tonight, I feel reassured that my daughter’s “Stealth and persistence economic future is in good hands. I also determine the minimum stakes plan to tell her that she, too, can grow up to become the most powerful economist in required to justify an attack.” the world. It’s a potent stimulus.” Robert Axelrod, on his new mathematical model that predicts timing of cyber attacks by analyzing when Justin Wolfers, praising the nomination attackers are most motivated to exploit vulnerabilities of Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve Chair. in a target computer system. Popular Mechanics, Bloomberg View column, October 8, 2013. January 13, 2014.

“The particularly stark divide among Americans regarding their recognition of global warming and their unwillingness to pay for the solutions poses vexing policy challenges for the nation’s leaders.” Barry Rabe, on the policy implications of fluctuating public opinion on global warming. Orange County Register op-ed, September 27, 2013. 18 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy

markets had kept them prosperous despite that year’s stock market crash. The disparity between their lot and that of so many others brought them to the “giving back” phase of their careers earlier than most. “We felt—and, by the way, we were wrong on this—that the crash would have a similar economic impact as the one in 1929,” Borish recalls, “and that New Yorkers and those in need would be really suffering for a long time. We had a decision to make: buy or build, give money to another not-for-profit or start our own. Being analytical, and wanting to try to measure impact, we decided to build our own.” Being analytical, their first realization was that “the three of us were pretty good at making money but that didn’t mean we knew anything,” he says. “There’s a fallacy that Peter Borish: people who make money know something about everything. We knew something about markets but we didn’t necessarily know how Every day a new test to build a nonprofit.” By Jeff Mortimer They brought in a seasoned team of stars in the not-for-profit world to do that, but they also brought their business acumen to the table.

Peter Borish at the was like every other kid,” says Peter “Robin Hood, in a nutshell, goes back to the New York City offices Borish (AB ’81, MPP ’82). “When I first course I ever had at the Ford School on of CharityBuzz was growing up, I wanted to become a benefit-cost analysis,” says Borish. “If I only Photo: Heidi Gutman professional baseball player.” had one dollar to give, who would I give it to? I How do I measure its impact?” Like almost every other kid, he didn’t. But if he wasn’t the Rookie of the Year in his chosen They implemented three principal innovations field, he came close. Five years after earning that were all, in a way, answers to those his master’s at the Ford School, the hedge questions: the foundation has no endowment, fund he co-founded with Paul Jones, Tudor its board pays all overhead costs, and it has an Investments, was already so successful that he, institutionalized assessment component. Jones, and another hedge fund executive were “If I’m convincing you to give a dollar to Robin able to create the Robin Hood Foundation, now Hood,” he says, “that dollar will be spent over the largest anti-poverty organization in New the next 12 months, it’s not going to be 87 York City. cents because 13 cents goes to overhead, and It was 1987, and the methodology he and because we actually have a metrics committee, Jones developed for predicting, and profiting you’ll know we take a very analytical approach from, volatility in the then-nascent derivative in measuring our program.” io n Image : Ro b i n H oo d Fo undat State & Hill 19

“Robin Hood, in a nutshell, goes back to the first course I ever had at the Ford School on benefit-cost analysis: If I only had one dollar to give, who would I give it to? How do I measure its impact?”

Borish describes himself as a “serial entrepreneur. Most of my success has been in the hedge fund business. Once I made a decision to leave the hedge fund business, I focused on early stage technology investing.” It’s not a typical path for a Ford School alum, but he still credits his “coaches” there for the approach that led to his success. Students with Borish-donated computers, 1990 (see p. 10) “The Ford School helped me think analytically,” he says. “That’s what people need today. “Tim donates some time and helps raise a lot Excel can tell me what two plus two is. One of money for RFK, the buyer gets access to differentiates oneself in the marketplace by someone he would never have been able to being analytical. And it’s not just analysis; get access to, and the foundation, after our fee, you have to be able to think creatively about gets more money off that auction than most the questions to ask. If you’re just asked not-for-profits will ever get from a live benefit. questions and you have to answer them, you’re In economic terms, that’s about pareto optimal studying for the test. Success in business, and as you can get, a win-win for everybody.” particularly in the market, is not about tests. Perhaps his path hasn’t been all that Every day the market opens and it’s a new test.” anomalous for a Ford School alum. Grasping the difference between knowing “People ask, ‘What is public policy?’” he says. answers and knowing how to think about “I answer that it’s anything you want it to be. finding answers is “where the Ford School Super PACs, 501(c)(4)s, nonprofits, these are comes into play,” says Borish. “It’s a very all measures designed to affect public policy. subtle distinction, but I think that’s something You sit in a room asking questions about the Ford School does better than anyone else.” what’s the best way to go about doing this, and He uses a sports metaphor to limn the they’re all analytical questions, all data-driven. core insight that’s helped keep him in the That analytical seed that the Ford School investment game for more than three decades. planted touches everything that I do.” ■ “As athletes get faster and stronger, the game has to evolve,” he says. “It’s the same thing with the market; there’s always this game of innovation.” Meet Peter Borish That insight also applies to the philanthropy game. In 2005, Borish was one of the founding investors of charitybuzz.com, a for- Since 1991, Peter Borish and Harley and Eliza Borish are profit internet company that raises funds for his wife, Julie (BBA ’82), have currently enrolled in U-M’s nonprofit organizations through online charity given more than $286,000 to College of Literature, Science, auctions of items like meetings with celebrities the Ford School. They also and the Arts. and high-end or one-of-a-kind merchandise. established The Peter and Julie “I’m proud to be part of this io n Image : Ro b i n H oo d Fo undat Borish Fellowship Award, which “Getting markets and not-for-profits to work tremendous public policy is given to two first-year PhD together just happens to be really cool and program,” says Borish, a students, one at the Ford something I love,” he says. “We do things on member of the Ford School charitybuzz that not-for-profits never do.” Last School and one in Department Committee. “The Ford School year’s highest bid, for example, was for coffee of Economics, who show great and Michigan were central to with Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. promise and are interested in helping me in terms of my policy-oriented economic “That went for a little over $600,000, and thought processing. I’m grateful issues. The Borishes have the beneficiary was the Robert F. Kennedy and appreciative, which is why three children: Isabel Borish Foundation for Criminal Justice,” he says. I’m a supporter, and my graduated from the University offspring have gone there.” of Michigan in 2013, and 20 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy Hauling charcoal, studying conservation in Kenya By William Foreman

ach Petroni (BA ’13) believes allows graduating seniors to carry As he travels in Kenya, Petroni that to truly know something, out explorations, projects, or can afford to stay in guesthouses you have to experience it. activities anywhere in the world. or budget hotels. But he says this So that’s why he spent some would prevent him from better Z Petroni is studying how local people time working as a charcoal hauler understanding how life is really deal with conservation efforts in in Kenya, loading huge bags of the lived in Kenya. So he stays with their own backyards. In the West, fuel on a rusty fixed-gear bike and families instead. conservation is often viewed to be a pedaling it 20 miles into town. positive, moral effort—saving a forest It was a chance encounter that led He’s in Africa as the first recipient of or protecting a herd of elephants, Petroni to the temporary job hauling the Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship—a Petroni says. But for the local charcoal. He was walking with a $25,000 award named after one of population, it often means losing a friend in a rural area on the central the University of Michigan’s most home, farm field, or job that leads coast of Kenya, about an hour and heroic alumni. The annual fellowship to a deeper plunge into poverty. a half from Mombasa, the country’s

Zach Petroni (BA ’13), inaugural Carrying charcoal to Indian Ocean Raoul Wallenberg Fellow market by bicycle

enya’s Arabuko-Sokoke Forest (ASF), the largest This contrast illuminates something else, as well: remnant of a hardwood forest that once spanned Arabuko-Sokoke is an island of conservation in a much East Africa’s coast from Somalia to southern greater, human-dominated landscape where thousands KMozambique, is a refuge for dozens of endemic and of Kenya’s people make their homes. Most of the people endangered flora and fauna--the Sokoke Scops Owl, Amani who live around the forest are subsistence farmers, Sunbird, and Golden-Rumped Elephant Shrew among them. “economic have-nots.” With few opportunities for formal employment, informal activities—such as tapping palms The 420-square-kilometer reserve, roughly the size of the for wine, ferrying charcoal to urban centers, or illegally city of New Orleans, is internationally recognized as a harvesting timber and poaching wildlife from within the biodiversity hotspot—the highest distinction bestowed by forest—can be the difference between destitution and conservationists prioritizing what remains of the world’s survival, between survival and advancement. natural heritage. An aerial view is all it takes to see why: the forest is an island of verdant green that lies in stark For these people, the forest is a “resource sink.” It helps contrast to the drab, beige-colored backdrop of the region them cope with temporary vulnerabilities like droughts and that surrounds it. failed harvests; it helps them stave off enduring, structural State & Hill 21

second-largest city. His friend a day and he’ll send 500 shillings of The underlying theme of Petroni’s introduced him to another friend, a that to his son every day to pay for Wallenberg proposal was to question charcoal hauler who Petroni simply his school fees.” conservation in a firsthand way. His calls John to protect his privacy. John fellowship is almost over, and he still Petroni hauled charcoal with John invited Petroni home and the student hasn’t reached a conclusion. for two days, and the work provided stayed with his family for four days in valuable insights for his research. “The more time I spend, I don’t think a mud-clay house with a corrugated Much of the charcoal wood came there’s a black or white conclusion. steel roof. The living space for the from a protected forest, so John was It’s all just shades of gray,” he said. family of eight was as big as three technically involved in a network of “Conservation is very place specific. dorm rooms. Meals usually included illegal activity that the government In one place it can be this. In another corn meal porridge called “ugali” and international organizations want place it could be the polar opposite. with boiled greens and a bit of fish to crack down on. I just think my understanding of or chicken. conservation has become more Through John, Petroni was able to “I got to see firsthand and experience nuanced.” ■ meet the other links in the charcoal his struggle and how he does it in chain, including the producers, and A longer version of this article appears good faith, with nothing but love in this enabled him to gain a more on the University’s Global Michigan his heart and for everyone else,” comprehensive understanding of Petroni said. “He makes on average website, global.umich.edu. the importance of charcoal to those 800 or 1,000 shillings ($9 or $11.50) in the area.

Charcoal processing Evidence of lumber harvesting and storage facility in Arabuko-Sokoke Charcoal bundles

challenges, like a lack of paying jobs; and it also enables a adjacent communities (such as bee-keeping and agroforesty) kind of nonessential opportunism humans have practiced and a pilot initiative that grants villagers the opportunity throughout history (the same opportunism that has fueled to manage sections of the forest in partnership with the economic growth of the Western world). conservation officials.

These distinctions, though, rarely factor into the conservation Unfortunately, persistent poverty, profit-seeking, and delays equation—a key reason why conservation efforts aimed at in joint management continue to frustrate conservation preserving Arabuko-Sokoke’s unique biodiversity have been efforts. Local sources say that destruction of the forest is fraught with contention. reaching a volume unseen in recent years.

Some progress has been made. In the past two decades, Forest officials and conservationists may understand the commercial logging, once allowed, has been halted, and ecological value of Arabuko-Sokoke, but they’ve mostly failed more humane conservation practices are employed, allowing to include people in their ecological model. Thinking only of a few uses that conservationists deem less destructive, binaries—conservation versus use, forest versus farmland— like firewood collection and butterfly harvesting. These days, they jeopardize the welfare of those who call this region home, there are also alternative livelihoods programs for forest- and ultimately the forest itself. — Zach Petroni (BA ’13) ■ 22 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy Soundbites

Overheard this semester: Policy Talks @ the Ford School

“It seems to me that our efforts to narrow racial differences in schooling and other things, if applied too late, are almost doomed to fail.”

Kerwin Charles, deputy dean and Edwin and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Charles Harris School of Public Policy Studies. January 20, 2014.

“Stephen Colbert, in my opinion, has single handedly done more for campaign finance reform than anyone else in the 21st century, save Richard Nixon.”

Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School. February 3, 2014. “I don’t think we (the U.S.) are too good at nation building. I don’t think we do that part too well. And I don’t think we’re very good at regime change.”

John Negroponte, former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. February 27, 2014.

“Why should I have to pay for my neighbor’s healthcare? You could be next. It’s that simple. Cohn n egroponte Gerken Every single person in this room is an accident, heart attack, some-disease-you-don’t-know away from having a catastrophic illness.”

Jonathan Cohn, senior editor of the New Republic and author of Sick: The Untold Story of

O rr America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price. March 17, 2014.

“There’s no pot of gold, no leprechaun. There’s no manna from heaven. It’s real debt. Real problems.”

Kevyn Orr (JD ’83), emergency financial manager, City of Detroit. March 25, 2014. State & Hill 23 Hybrid Justice and Armed With Expertise

wo new books from Ford School faculty of Experts for Cambodia, writes “John Ciorciari and members John D. Ciorciari and Joy Rohde Anne Heindel have written the definitive study of a highly deepen our understanding of international controversial experiment in accountability for human rights criminal justice systems and the role social atrocities…this study makes a profound contribution to the scientists have played, for better or for worse, scholarship and policy debates within fields ranging from inT American national security. international criminal justice to comparative politics.” In Hybrid Justice: The Extraordinary Chambers in the In Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Courts of Cambodia, Ciorciari, assistant professor of Social Research during the Cold War, Joy Rohde public policy, and Anne Heindel, legal advisor at the investigates the Cold War origins and contemporary Documentation Center of Cambodia, examine the hybrid consequences of the Pentagon’s social science research tribunal created by the United Nations and the Cambodian contracting system. government to try key Khmer Rouge officials for crimes in Rohde, a new Ford School assistant professor, describes the the Pol Pot era. In the book, published in February 2014 by rise, fall, and resurgence of social scientists’ involvement

John D. Ciorciari Joy Rohde

in U.S. military research. The the University of Michigan Press, the book shows that the expulsion authors argue that the contentious of military-funded social science politics behind the tribunal’s creation, research from university campuses its flawed legal and institutional in response to ’60s-era protests design, and frequent political impasses created a rift between the academy impaired the court’s ability to deliver and the military. “That rift,” says credible justice. Rohde, “has yet to be mended, During a panel on the book at the much to the detriment of America’s East-West Center in Washington, DC, international reputation.” Ciorciari discussed lessons that can be The book, published in September 2013 by Cornell learned from the Cambodian experience, stating: “the UN University Press, raises questions about the quality of has undeniably a weak structural position in this court, the social science research that the national security state but it’s still chosen to interpret its mandate narrowly, relies upon. It also raises questions about the militarization conservatively, deferring in most cases to Cambodian of domestic life. In his review of the book, Michael Sherry, the sovereignty and prerogative. So the lesson here is that if the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern UN gets involved, it needs to exert ownership and stronger University, states “Rohde offers especially striking and control.” disturbing material on the blowback of social science Hybrid Justice has received significant praise from legal collaboration with the armed forces, as individuals and scholars. Steven R. Ratner, University of Michigan Law institutions moved beyond addressing threats abroad into School and member of the UN Secretary-General’s Group assessing domestic disorder and attempting to control it.” ■ 24 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy What every alderman should know (about endowments) Two new endowed funds for the next century of student support

e all know how tough it is to save—to choose Contributions from alumni and friends poured in and, between immediate needs and future ones. At the though they slowed in subsequent years, they never really Ford School, we face a similar challenge in asking stopped. Together, 250 donors along with institutional alumni to contribute to endowments rather than investments have contributed $383,000 to the Bromage Wannual funds. But endowments have tremendous Fund. From the beginning, the University of Michigan power. Like savings, they’re investments in the future. invested those funds carefully, as it does all endowed funds, Case in point? Our very first endowment for student and provided our school with a small percentage of the support, The Arthur W. and Mary C. Bromage Fund.

In 1979, our school lost Arthur W. Bromage, our longest Thirty-seven years since its launch, serving faculty member, someone who had been at the center circle of our community for five decades. Alumni and the Arthur W. and Mary C. Bromage friends who had established a small fund in his honor just Fund is valued at $1.3 million. after his retirement, immediately set out to do more. With gifts from the Michigan Municipal League, the International value each year for Bromage Fellows and Interns. City Managers Association, and the Earhart Foundation, Today, thirty-seven years since its launch, the Arthur they awarded Arthur W. Bromage Fellowships and W. and Mary C. Bromage Fund is valued at $1.3 million. Internships to a small group of students, and began to reach out to alumni and friends to contribute to an endowed fund In the last decade, this endowment has provided $631,532 that would honor his legacy far into the future. to more than 100 of the Ford School’s talented students.

Mary C. Bromage, with UN Relief and Arthur Bromage, Arthur and Mary Bromage, Rehabilitation Administration, c. 1944 Ireland, 1970s Ann Arbor, 1970s

An endowed gift of over 20 years will grow to providing $100,000 $254,847 $130,805 given now (estimated market value) for students in that time

Photo: John Collier (1913-1992) State & Hill 25

Collins Vereen family kick-starts new funds with $25,000 gift The Graduate Centennial Fund ______Q. First donors to the new Graduate Centennial The Future Leaders Fund and Future Leaders Funds? A. Dean Susan M. Collins and her husband, Dr. Donald R. Vereen Jr., director of the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center.

Last year alone, $74,000 from the Bromage Fund supported five fellowships and nine internships. Annual gifts are vital and valued. They allow us to offer much-needed fellowships and internships to our students in the same year we receive a gift. But endowed gifts are powerful, just as savings are powerful, as we look to the future. This year, as we celebrate our 100th anniversary, we will launch two new endowed funds—designed to commemorate our first century and prepare for our next. For master’s students, we’ve created The Graduate Centennial Fund. And for undergraduates, we’re starting The Future Leaders Fund. Both will support fellowships, internships, travel grants, professional development activities, and other initiatives that enhance the student experience at the Ford School. ■

To contribute to our new funds, visit giving.umich.edu/give/ford.

Dean Susan M. Collins, Alec, Ana, and Donald R. Vereen Jr.

Q. Why a gift to student support?

n the spring of 1949, students organized an alumni A. “Financial support was essential to both of us for Ireunion. The student newsletter of the era reported that our graduate degrees, so that made it a no brainer. a “mob” of 72 alumni turned out at the Dexter-Huron We wouldn’t be doing what we’re doing now if it Metropolitan Park where, “Dr. Bromage, in commemoration hadn’t been for student support.” of his recent elevation to the city council of Ann Arbor (!!), Q. Why give to an endowment? was awarded a laurel crown, a badge of honor and a A. “We’re committed to and really excited about pamphlet on ‘What every alderman should know’ or the the school’s future. Plus, we know how well the most famous of municipal administration bibliographies. University stewards endowed funds.” After miscellaneous contests including spirited egg tossing Q. What’s special about Ford School students? and a three-legged race (won by Gene Moody and bride), the group adjourned to the baseball field where Dorrit’s A. What’s not special about Ford School students! Delinquents suffered defeat at the hands of Bromage’s Their spirit, collegiality, smarts, creativity… Firefighters, 9 to 2.” There’s a lot to love.” Q. Fun photo! What’s the story? A. Our kids, Ana and Alec, have grown up in Ann Arbor; they were 10 and 13 when we moved here from Washington, DC. Ana chose this spot for her senior photo, and we asked the photographer to get PLUS a family shot, too. It’s hard to believe that Ana is a it keeps growing in perpetuity. sophomore in college and Alec will graduate from high school next year; the years here have flown. 26 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy Faculty News

Axelrod Deardorff Dynarski Henry

In January, Robert Axelrod College Related Choices of High Ability, introduced a mathematical model Low-Income Minority Students” in the to better predict the timing of cyber Economics of Education Review. attacks by analyzing when attackers are Susan M. Dynarski was selected as a most motivated to exploit vulnerabilities 2014 nonresident senior fellow for the in a target computer system. His Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies paper on the model, “Timing of Cyber program. Throughout her appointment, Conflict,” co-authored with postdoctoral she will contribute to Brookings’ new research fellow Rumen Iliev, was Economic Studies working paper series. published in the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Ford School Professors Susan M. America and has received coverage in Dynarski, Elisabeth R. Gerber, In January, Helen Levy testified at the leading academic journals, news outlets, Yazier Henry, Ambassador Melvyn U.S. House of Representatives Ways and blogs from over 20 countries. Levitsky, and Justin L. Thomas and Means Committee hearing on “The Axelrod was also selected to receive were nominated for the University Impact of the Employer Mandate’s a Jefferson Science Fellowship and of Michigan’s Golden Apple Award Definition of ‘Full-time Employee’ on serve as a science advisor for the State this year. The Golden Apple Award Jobs and Opportunities.” Levy testified Department for 2014-15. recognizes outstanding university that there is considerable evidence teaching, and is the only such award that defining full-time employment as The second edition of Alan V. where nominees are chosen by students. 30 hours or more will not result in a Deardorff’s book, Terms distortion in labor demand. of Trade: Glossary of Brian A. Jacob received a $200,000 International Economics grant from the Walton Family Barry Rabe was named a was published by the Foundation to study the effectiveness Distinguished Alumnus of his alma World Scientific Publishing of online learning in the K-12 sector. mater Carthage College. He also recently Company. The new edition The study, which will be co-led by completed his service on the U.S. has over 50 percent more Susanna Loeb (MPP ’94, PhD ’98), a National Research Council Committee content than the first edition, professor at Stanford University School on Shale Gas Risks and Governance, which came out in 2006. of Education, will use administrative which sponsored two workshops and data to characterize the current use of published a special symposium issue of Stephen DesJardins and Brian P. online courses and examine the impact Environmental Science & Technology. McCall published an article titled of expanding online opportunities on “The Impact of the Gates Millennium student outcomes. Scholars Program on College and Post-

Ford School Spotlight

The University of Michigan’s thirteenth president, Mary Sue Coleman, will retire this summer after twelve years of leadership and service. President Coleman was a good friend to President and Mrs. Ford, and a tireless advocate as the Ford School worked to build Weill Hall. 27

Jacob McCall Rabe Stange Thomas Whitman Yang

Kevin M. Stange was awarded a $25,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to support his research on the influence of physical school settings on student success. In addition, his paper, “How Does Provider Supply and Regulation Influence Health Care Markets? Evidence from Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants,” was published by the Journal of Health Economics in February.

Maris A. Vinovskis gave a talk titled “Using Knowledge of the Past to Improve Education Today: U.S. Education History and Policymaking” Boucher Picken based on his experiences working in the U.S. Department of Education during the first Bush and Clinton Administrations, as well as his books on the history of Ford School hosts two Head Start and No Child Left Behind. A revised version is scheduled for Towsley Foundation publication next year. Last summer, Vinovskis was a keynote speaker at Policymakers in Residence the annual International Standing Conference on the History of Education (ISCHE) at the University of Latvia, the Richard Boucher and Margo Picken, currently serving as the first time an ISCHE conference was Towsley Foundation Policymakers in Residence, are using their hosted in an Eastern European country. experience to inform two new half-semester courses at the Marina v.N. Whitman’s essay, “The Ford School. Boucher, former Deputy Secretary-General of Accidental Economist” is featured the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Eminent Economists II: Their Life (OECD) and the longest-serving Assistant Secretary of State and Work Philosophies, published by for Public Affairs at the U.S. State Department, is teaching Cambridge University Press. The first volume, focusing on an earlier generation “Wielding Economic Power,” a course that explores how of economists, was published in 1992. economic levers and status affect a nation’s global standing Whitman has also contributed frequent and international relations. editorials to the Detroit Free Press, including a call for a moderate majority Picken, who formerly worked at the United Nations as director political party. of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in

Dean Yang recently completed a Cambodia and established the Office of Amnesty International microfinance study on the impact of at the United Nations, is teaching “Human Rights at the United modest financial literacy training on Nations: A practitioner’s perspective.” migrants’ decisions to save. Yang and his colleagues found that a three-hour The Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence program motivational seminar on financial brings individuals with significant policymaking experience decision-making changed the behavior to campus to interact with students and faculty. of migrants in positive ways, leading them to save more and send more money to family back home. 28 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy Class Notes

Beilein Braunohler Chanowski

Stephen Horner (MPP ’73) has Laura Perna (MPP ’92), professor in In July, Karen Biddle Andres (MPP/ spent the last 29 years as a forensic the Graduate School of Education at the MBA ’08), welcomed new son Edwin economist in Corpus Christi, Texas. University of Pennsylvania, is founding Biddle Andres into a divided Wolverine/ At the annual meeting of the National director of UPenn’s new Alliance for Spartan family. Karen also recently Association of Forensic Economics this Higher Education and Democracy. She accepted a new position as the director January, he was presented with the also has a new book examining the role of research for the Center for Financial inaugural John Ward and Michael Piette of state policy in improving educational Services Innovation, where she has Research Prize for his article with Frank attainment in the United States, titled worked for five years, helping providers Slesnick titled “The Valuation of Earning The Attainment Agenda: State Policy develop financial services and products Capacity Definition, Measurement, Leadership in Higher Education, that promote the financial health of all and Evidence.” The Ward/Piette prize published by Johns Hopkins University consumers, but especially those who recognizes the best research published Press. have been traditionally underserved. in the Journal of Forensic Economics. Sean Jones (MPP ’00) and May Beginning this August, Maria S. Alan Miller (MPP/JD ’74) retired from Salameh gave birth to a son, Zacharia, Johnson (PhD ’10), will be an assistant the International Finance Corporation in Mexico City on October 4, 2013. professor in the Department of Sociology on January 1st. He is now a Walton and Criminal Justice at the University of Walter Braunohler (MPP ’02) will be Fellow with Arizona State University Delaware. departing his role as the spokesman at and is doing independent consulting on the U.S. embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Dani Liffmann (BA ’10) was promoted climate change finance and policy. to become the next U.S. Consul General to senior research analyst at NORC After many years as an economist at the in Krakow, Poland. at the University of Chicago. In the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, role, she conducts program evaluation In January, Shelly Ten Napel (MPP/ DC, Dan Sichel (MPP ’83) has joined and policy analysis for government MSW ’02) became the director of Health the faculty of the Economics Department and foundation-funded health care Care Reform and Innovation for the at Wellesley College. programs. Washington, DC Department of Health Kip Banks, Sr. (MPP/MUP ’90) has Care Finance. Jonathan Newman (BA ’10) recently been named the interim general started a new job as an associate in the Zaire Dinzey-Flores (PhD ’05) secretary of the Progressive National Financial Restructuring Group at the published Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Baptist Convention, Inc. (PNBC). PNBC, New York law firm Milbank, Tweed, Communities in a Puerto Rican City headquartered in Washington, DC, is the Hadley, McCloy LLP. (University of Pennsylvania, 2013) and church convention of the Reverend Dr. was promoted to associate professor Ross Chanowski (BA ’11) founded Martin Luther King, Jr. with tenure at Rutgers University in Mana, a start-up in the 3D printing April 2013. industry. Based in Boston, Mana is developing a software service that will allow consumers to use 3D Printers in their own homes. Launch is expected in Class of 20?? Fall 2014. Parvati Patil (MPP ’11) is now working for Vittana, a Seattle-based social enterprise that specializes in developing and launching student loan programs in emerging and developing markets. Vittana’s mission is to graduate

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Hall Horner Johnson Schmidt

a generation beyond poverty. As a in Mumbai. She had an incredible regional program manager for South ten days there crashing weddings. Asia, Parvati is responsible for Vittana’s Candice has been working at portfolio of microfinance partnerships VisionFund Cambodia for six months, in South Asia. She always welcomes doing a mix of mobile, operations, good conversations and looks forward and staff retention strategy for the to catching up with the Ford School organization’s microfinance operations. community either in Washington, DC, Andrew Beilein (BA ’12) joined India, or Seattle. Business Roundtable as manager of After meeting at the Ford School in Advocacy Programs. 2009, Adam Schmidt (MPP ’11) and Last May, Katherine Hall (MPA ’13) Ashlee Schmidt (Davis) (MPP ’11), was hired as a policy associate with were married in Park City, Utah on the Economic Opportunity team at Eboni Wells (MPP ’13) just wrapped September 21, 2013. Several of their Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, up the first quarter of her two-year Ford School classmates joined them to a national policy organization that Public Policy Fellowship with the celebrate! focuses on economic development and Skillman Foundation in Detroit. Candice Ammori (BA ’12) recently workforce issues. CSW is headquartered traveled to India. She won the trip based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Katherine plans on a three-minute video she submitted to to attend The Centennial Reunion! Creativeland Asia, an advertising agency

Call for nominations Neil Staebler Distinguished Service Award

The Ford School Alumni Board seeks nominations The Staebler Award recognizes a Ford School for the Neil Staebler Distinguished Service Award. alumnus or alumna for outstanding professional achievement consistent with Staebler’s dedication The Staebler Award is a program of the Neil to excellence in public service. Qualified alumni Staebler Fund for Political Education at the will have demonstrated a commitment to Ford School. The Staebler Fund was established engaging with the public policy challenges of our in 1987 to honor Neil Staebler (AB ’26), one of world through professional accomplishments and/ Michigan’s leading political figures. Staebler, or public service through volunteerism. Volunteer who passed away in 2000, devoted his public service to the Ford School is also considered. life to improving democratic government by increasing the participation of citizens in all Any member of the Ford School community is aspects of public affairs. invited to submit a nomination; only Ford School alumni are eligible to be nominated.

Nominations are due by June 30. Visit fordschool.umich.edu/alumni/staebler-award to learn more. 30 gerald r. Ford School of Public Policy The Last Word

Jennifer Niggemeier, director of graduate career services

and alumni relations, and Elisabeth Johnston, alumni relations ’90s alumni: who can I.D. the theme of this holiday skit? manager, sit down with State & Hill to preview The Centennial Reunion (October 31 – November 1, 2014).

S&H: A centennial reunion—rare indeed! How has it been S&H: What are you most looking forward to? to have the chance to plan this? E: We’re putting on a great weekend. Fall in Ann Arbor is J: (laughing) I’m pretty sure it’s a once in a lifetime gorgeous—it’s a classic. opportunity! It’s super exciting. I mean think about it: J: From a personal perspective, I’m hoping that some

we’ve been around 100 years. What an impact our alums Th e F o rd S ch oo l Ce n te nnial alums from my first years at the Ford School make it back have made over that time! to campus. How fun would that be!—To see where people S&H: I know some details are in progress. What can you are fifteen and twenty years later…. (pause, eyes welling). say now about the Reunion? Quote, ‘As she says with tears in her eyes,’ unquote!

E: As we’re just announcing, we’ll host a keynote lecture S&H: (laughter) Anyone who knows Jennifer can picture with Steven Levitt along with a brunch for alums and this scene! faculty. We’ll go to the football game and the Alumni J: It’s that time to come back. Re-live some of your Association’s M Go Blue Tailgate. That’s very family- memories, connect back with some faculty and staff who friendly, with the Marching Band and lots of good food were important during your time here. We’ve heard and giveaways. This year’s tailgate will feature the Ford from some alums who have started rallying their friends. School and include some great surprises for our alums. They’re saying, ‘Hey, we’ve been talking about going back to campus. We know others will be there. Let’s make this happen. Let’s get it on calendars now. Let’s have some fun!’

S&H: Our Centennial Reunion coincides with the launch of the Victors for Michigan campaign. Thoughts?

J: It’s great timing. We’re thinking not just where we’ve come in these hundred years but more importantly,

where do we want to go? We’re at a turning point; we’re launching the school’s next century. The generosity and engagement of our alums will be key.

S&H: Last thoughts?

E: Make hotel reservations soon! And please keep an eye out in June for your registration materials; that will include information about how to get football tickets L-R: Jennifer Niggemeier (which we expect to sell out). and Elisabeth Johnston J: As we’ve been looking through our history, it’s been amazing to think about the legacy of this place and of all the people who have come through over one hundred J: The Reunion falls on Halloween, so we’re planning years. To you, reading this article: you’re a part of that. an Open House—almost like a trick-or-treat throughout You helped build the school. This place matters, and this the building, where you can stop by and have ‘office is the year to come back. ■ hours’ with faculty. That will be followed by a reception in the Weill Hall courtyard for the entire Ford School For more info: Elisabeth Johnston, 734-615-5760 or community. [email protected].

S&H: How have alums been involved in the planning?

E: Our Alumni Board has been discussing and advising us on options for over a year. And right now, we’re looking for a team of alumni volunteers to help spread the word about the Reunion via phone calls and social media. Ford Be Engaged Be Inspired Be Here this Fall 100

Our Centennial Lecture, featuring After the Centennial Lecture on On Saturday, November 1, it’s Steven D. Levitt October 31, our Open House at Weill Homecoming as the Wolverines Hall awaits you for an afternoon of take on the Hoosiers of Indiana. Policy Talks @ the Ford School family-friendly fun: Friday, October 31, 2014 » ComingCentennial soon: purchase Reunion football 12:30 p.m. » Catch up with classmates, friends, and tailgate tickets online colleagues, and faculty » Go BlueOct. Homecoming 31 - Nov. Tailgate 1 Rackham Auditorium » Showcase of student work (the biggest and best pre-game Free and open to the public » Student-led tours of Weill Hall party, with 3,000 of your closest » Kid-friendly Halloween activities Michigan friends)—featuring the

Th e F o rd S ch oo l Ce n te nnial Steven D. Levitt is the » Reception Ford School’s Centennial bestselling author of » Commemorative gifts » Food & fun Freakonomics and » Happy Hours (hosted by student » Activities for kids Superfreakonomics, organizations) » Meet former players co-founder of Spin for » Michigan Marching Band Good, and William B. Ogden Distinguished Service NOW: Book your hotel room: fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion/travel Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. SOON: In June, look for your invitation to The Centennial Reunion! Meanwhile, more details can be found at fordschool.umich.edu/100-reunion

Join us in person or online for these upcoming Ford School events:

May 30 July 10 October 31–November 1

Honoring Ned Gramlich and 4th annual Worldwide Ford The Centennial Reunion the importance of policy School Spirit Day—our research, a conference co- Centennial edition hosted with the Federal Reserve Visit fordschool.umich.edu/ Board (Washington, DC) August 18 events for more details or fordschool.umich.edu/videos May 30 Policy Talks @ the Ford School: to watch videos from our past Neera Tanden, President of the events. For the latest event Student/Alumni Networking Center for American Progress news, sign up by emailing Event (Nationals Park, [email protected] or Washington, DC) October 10 following @fordschool. Reception: 5:30 p.m. First pitch: 7:10 p.m. Policy Talks @ the Ford School: Washington Nationals vs. Texas Steve LaTourette, former U.S. Rangers Congressman (R-OH) and founder of Defending Main Street

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And now, on to our Next Century… Lucky MPP student Hirokazu Yamasaki and his wife Aya welcomed a new baby boy to their family on January 2, 2014. His name: Ippei Gerald Yamasaki. In Japanese, Ippei means “lucky person” and “being kind to everyone.” His middle name? A tribute to President Gerald R. Ford.