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Dear alumni, friends, and colleagues: One hundred years ago, Jesse S. Reeves, chairman of the political science department, convinced the University of Michigan to launch the nation’s first systematic public service training program—ours. At our 50th anniversary celebrations in 1964, one of the first directors of our program observed that it was no longer unique. Syracuse had launched a similar program, and others had followed suit. Today, there are nearly 300 schools of public policy and public administration in the U.S. But ours remains the prototype, and one of the very best. We’re so pleased to be celebrating our centennial with each of you, and we thank you for helping to shape our culture, community, and course over the years. Joining us on campus this weekend, we have graduates from the late 1940s through 2014. Our IPAers may remember Art Bromage as a mentor and friend. The Bureau of Government Research. The Lansing Field Office. Comparative administration. Kennedy’s midnight speech on the steps of the Union. The Great Society speech given by LBJ right here at the University of Michigan. Dominick’s (founded 1959). And our 50th anniversary reunion. Our IPPSters may recall the first Earth Day celebrations and early teach-ins. Pat Crecine and Jack Walker. Nixon, Watergate, Ford, and the pardon. The launch of our PhD program. Ned Gramlich’s leadership. And Paul Courant’s. And Ned Gramlich again. And Paul Courant again. IPPS TIPPS and IPPS RIPPS. Edie Goldenberg. John Chamberlin. Dominick’s. Lorch Hall. Our first Alumni Board, our first Ford School Committee, and our first on-site computing closet.
Our SPP grads might remember our first forays into applied policy courses. Our first diplomats-in residence. The first International Economic Development Program trip. There was Becky Blank’s leadership. The Integrated Policy Exercise. The International Policy Students Association. The school’s renaming for President Ford. Also, Dominick’s. Our Fordies, our most recent grads, may remember little of that (except for Dominick’s!). But they are the beneficiaries. Early Fordies studied at the Huron Annex and the Oakland Annex. But then came the move to Weill Hall, with a real student lounge and a real computing center. Fordies saw the launch of our joint-PhD program, and our BA program. They kept the Charity Auction going, and built on it. They created their own student organizations. They “joined the conversation” with #policytalks. Whatever year you graduated. Whatever acronym or abbreviation you use to refer to your cohort. You are our collective memory, and you’re so much more. You’re our boots on the ground, our hats in the ring, our voice in the most pressing issues of our time. Thank you for all of that. And thank you for being here to celebrate with us—to launch our next 100 years. Welcome back.
Susan M. Collins Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy
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2014 Neil Staebler Distinguished Alumni Service Award
About Weill Hall
The Ford School Alumni Board is pleased to announce that Patrick L. Anderson (MPP ‘83) is the recipient of the 2014 Neil Staebler Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Anderson founded Anderson Economic Group (AEG) in 1996, and serves as the Principal and Chief Executive Officer in the company.
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AEG, a highly regarded consulting firm, has provided consulting services for a number of states, manufacturing companies, retailers, telecommunications companies, many other business enterprises, and to colleges and universities. “The Staebler Award gives us a wonderful opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of our alumni,” says Susan M. Collins, the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Ford School. “I am delighted that the Alumni Board has chosen to celebrate Patrick Anderson—someone whose public and private sector work has left a lasting imprint on our state.” The quality and scope of Anderson’s professional work has created a tremendous pipeline of jobs and internships for Ford School students and graduates. In addition, Anderson has generously shared his expertise and advice in a number of educational and career-building forums at the school. The Neil Staebler Distinguished Alumni Service Award is a program of the Neil Staebler Fund for Political Education, which was established at
the Ford School in 1987 to honor Neil Staebler. Staebler was one of Michigan’s leading political activists, and his public life was devoted to improving democratic government by increasing the participation of citizens in all aspects of public affairs. The award recognizes a Ford School alumnus or alumna for outstanding professional achievement consistent with Neil Staebler’s dedication to excellence in public service. The award recognizes an alumnus who has demonstrated a commitment to engaging with the public policy challenges of our world through professional accomplishments and/or public service through volunteerism.
Past recipients 2011 Steve Tobocman (MPP/JD ’97) 2009 Dr. Douglas A. Brook (MPA ‘67) 2004 Frank Spence (MPA ’60) 2001 Robert N. McKerr (MPA ’58) 1999 Donald J. Borut (MPA ’65) 1997 Bev Godwin (MPP ’82)
and Sanford Weill Hall opened its doors in
August 2006. The 85,000 sq ft building, on the
northeast corner of State and Hill streets, offers state-of-the-art classrooms and many areas for student-faculty interaction. Weill Hall’s
highly visible location as a gateway to the U-M campus enhances the school’s role as a central
venue for public discussion on current national and international policy issues.
The building contains five classrooms, one
computer lab, two seminar rooms, and several conference rooms. It was built at a cost of
$35 million, a little more than half of which
was raised from private donations, with the remainder contributed by the University of
Michigan. Almost all of the Ford School classes
are taught in Weill Hall and the classrooms are used to schedule other U-M undergraduate
and graduate-level classes when they are not needed for Ford School students.
Sculptor J. Brett Grill (BFA ’01) created a scale
model of the bronze statue of President Gerald
R. Ford that stands in the Rotunda of the United
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States Capitol Building in Washington, DC. On April 16, 2013 General Brent Scowcroft (USAF
ret) visited the Ford School to help dedicate the statue, which can be found in the Great Hall.
The statue is a gift from Susan J. (AB ’60) and Martin J. Allen, Jr.
On the cusp of our second century, the Ford School needs you. Ford School Graduate Centennial Fund fordschool.umich.edu/giving/graduate-centennial-fund Ford School Future Leaders Fund fordschool.umich.edu/giving/future-leaders-fund
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Schedule of Events Friday, October 31 11:00am – 12:15pm Alumni Brunch with Steven D. Levitt Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor
12:30pm – 2:00pm Policy Talks @ the Ford School: The Ford School Centennial Lecture, featuring Steven D. Levitt Rackham Auditorium With introductions from Dean Collins and Dr. Mark Schlissel, the 14th President of the University of Michigan. Seating pass required. 2:00pm – 2:15pm Bus Transportation to Weill Hall Look for volunteers holding “Bus to Weill Hall” signs in Rackham lobby or by the buses in front of the Rackham building. Buses will depart when full and make additional runs as needed. (On foot, the walk measures 0.6 miles and takes around 13 minutes).
2:15pm – 3:30pm “The Ford School Today” – Centennial Reunion Open House 1st and 2nd floors of Weill Hall A festive afternoon of trick or treating, children’s arts and crafts, student-led building tours, a showcase of student organizations and student work, a photo booth, opportunities to chat with faculty, refreshments (cider, donuts, and cookies) and more. 3:30pm – 4:30pm Deans’ Panel – “Ford School Leaders: What Do They Know?” Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall Join an all-star line-up of Ford School deans/ directors for a wide-ranging conversation about the first—and the next—one hundred years of policy education at Michigan. Featuring Rebecca Blank, John Chamberlin, Susan Collins, Paul Courant, and Edie Goldenberg.
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4:30pm – 6:00pm The Centennial Reunion Reception Main courtyard under the tent, 2nd floor of Weill Hall Celebrate and enjoy food, drink, music—and a champagne toast to the next century of the Ford School. Centennial Reunion nametag required for entrance into the reception. Featuring: • The University of Michigan Friars • Remarks from Dean Susan Collins; Paul Weech, Alumni Board Chair; and Dan Ginis, Director of Development • The presentation of the 2014 Neil Staebler Distinguished Alumni Service Award to Patrick L. Anderson (MPP ’83) 6:00pm Happy Hours, hosted by student organizations Two locations (pick one or two!): Dominick’s, 812 Monroe Street (two blocks from Weill Hall) and The Blue Leprechaun, 1220 S. University Ave (four blocks from Weill Hall). Note: Dominick’s is a 21+ establishment.
6:00pm – 7:15pm Trick-or-treating and socializing Professor Mary Corcoran invites alumni and their children to her house at 1506 Granger in Burns Park (an Ann Arbor Halloween hotspot) for wine & cheese.
Saturday, November 1
12:30pm – 3:30pm Go Blue Homecoming Tailgate Oosterbaan Field House, 1202 S. State Street Ticket required. The Ford School will be featured at this 2,000person tailgate, with special commemorative seat cushion giveaways, activities for kids, a Q&A with two of President Ford’s sons, the Michigan Marching Band, and more. 3:30pm Homecoming football game – U-M vs. Indiana University Michigan Stadium. Ticket required. Cheer on the Michigan Wolverines from the Ford School section (Section 33, Rows 7-16). For a list of prohibited items in the stadium, please visit mgoblue.com.
Deans & Directors
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Speaker biographies
Rebecca M. Blank became chancellor of the
Public Life from 2008-2011. Chamberlin served
Paul Courant is the Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate
Edie N. Goldenberg is a professor of political
From 2009 to 2013, she served in top positions
and as acting dean in 2007. Chamberlin has
Professor, professor of economics, and
of the College of Literature, Science, and the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in July 2013. at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She
started as under secretary for economic affairs, and then was named deputy secretary and
acting secretary of the agency, managing nearly 45,000 employees and a $10 billion budget.
as interim dean of the school from 1997-1999, a BS in industrial engineering from Lehigh
University and a PhD in decision sciences from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Blank previously served as dean and professor
Susan M. Collins is the Joan and Sanford
R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University
Ford School of Public Policy and a professor of
of public policy and economics in the Gerald of Michigan from 1999 to 2008. In her role
as dean, she launched such innovations as
interdisciplinary graduate programs and an
undergraduate public policy major. Earlier in her career, she was a member of the faculty at Northwestern University and Princeton University, as well as an assistant visiting
professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also spent two years, from
1997 to 1999, as a member of the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers. Blank earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the
University of Minnesota, and a doctoral degree in economics from MIT.
John R. Chamberlin is a professor emeritus of
political science and public policy. His research interests include ethics and public policy,
professional ethics, and methods of election
and representation. He taught the core course “Values, Ethics, and Public Policy” at the Ford
School. He was the director of the Ford School’s BA in Public Policy program from 2007-2011
and the director of U-M’s Center for Ethics in
Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R.
public policy and economics. Before coming to Michigan in 2007, she was a professor of economics at Georgetown University and
a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where she retains a
nonresident affiliation. She is an international economist whose research interests focus
on implications of increasing international
economic integration, and determinants of economic growth in industrial, emerging
market, and developing countries. She currently serves as president of the Association for
Professional Schools of International Affairs
(APSIA), is a member of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago, a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior
staff economist on the President’s Council
of Economic Advisers. Collins received her BA
summa cum laude in economics from Harvard University and her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau professor of information at the University
of Michigan. Courant has served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, as university librarian and dean of
libraries, as associate provost for academic and budgetary affairs, as chair of the Department of Economics, and as director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (predecessor of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). He served as a senior staff economist at the
Council of Economic Advisers from 1979 to 1980. Courant has authored half a dozen
books and over seventy papers covering a
broad range of topics in economics and public policy. More recently, his academic work has
considered the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the
effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries. He
was a founding board member of both the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Digital
Public Library of America. Courant holds a BA
in history from Swarthmore College (1968), an MA in economics from Princeton University
(1973), and a PhD in economics from Princeton University (1974).
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science and public policy. She served as Dean Arts from 1989-98 and is the founding director of the Michigan in Washington Program.
Her research interests include the politics of higher education; her most recent book is
Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education (MIT Press 2009), co-authored with John Cross. She is also author of Making the Papers: The Access of Resource Poor Groups
to the Metropolitan Papers and co-author of
Campaigning for Congress. Goldenberg served
in the federal Office of Personnel Management. She is a member of the National Academy of
Public Administration and a life member of the
MIT Corporation. Goldenberg served as director of the Ford School from 1987-89.
It’s a great day to be a Fordie.
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Centennial Reunion Volunteers
The Ford School Committee
The Alumni Reunion and Campaign Volunteer Committee is a group of alumni volunteers from across the
Founded in 1991 to promote and increase private support for the Ford School’s students, research, and policy
decades of IPA, IPPS, SPP, and the Ford School who have generously offered their time to reconnect with classmates
engagement, the Committee for the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is comprised of leaders from the public and
and help spread the word about the Centennial Reunion and the Victors for Michigan campaign.
private sectors with an interest in public policy and higher education.
Larry Collins (MPA ‘49)
Lynn Vendinello (MPP ‘89)
Jomo Thorne (MPP/MBA ‘08)
Martin J. Allen, Jr.
Michael G. Ford
John J.H. Schwarz, MD (AB ‘59)
Betty Lou Morris (MPA ‘49)
Mellie Torres (MPP ‘97)
Elle Beard (BA ‘09)
Peter F. Borish (AB ‘81, MPP ‘82)
Elizabeth R. Haar (BS ‘87)
Allen L. Sinai, PhD (AB ‘61)
Herb DeJonge (MPA ‘57)
Rosa Martinez (MPP ‘98)
Pete Fritz (MPP/MBA ‘10)
Pamela L. Carter (MSW ‘73)
James P. Hackett (AB ‘77)
Michael B. Staebler (JD ‘69)
David Fauri (MPA ‘64)
Sean Jones (MPP ‘00)
Ian Swedish (MPP/MBA ‘10)
L. Michael Costa (MPP ‘82)
Lyman Hamilton
Adarsh Trehan (AM ‘65)
Jim Hudak (MPP ‘71)
Catherine Lomax (MPP ‘01)
Ashley Hill (BA ‘12)
Martha Darling
James B. Hudak (MPP ‘71)
Mitch Vernick (AB ‘77, MPP ‘78)
Louie Cornelius (MPP ‘76)
Cortney Robinson (AB/MPP ‘01)
Tina Wei Smith (MPP/MA ‘13)
Debbie I. Dingell
Hank G. Meijer (AB ‘73)
Sandy I. Weill
Pris Boroniec (MPP ‘77)
Paxton Williams (MPP ‘02)
Caitlin Carmedelle (MPP ‘14)
David P. Fauri, PhD (AB ‘62, MPP ‘64)
Elizabeth Schrayer (AB ‘82)
Jim McIntire (MPP ‘78)
Lisa Nuszkowski (MPP ‘03)
Chris Falcone (MPP ‘14)
Addell Anderson (MPP ‘80)
Norm Bishara (MPP ‘04)
Caitie Goddard (MPP ‘14)
Paul Weech (MPP ‘81)
Stuart Heiser (MPP ‘04)
Claire Hutchinson (MPP ‘14)
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Michael Costa (MPP ‘82)
John Balbach (MPP ‘05)
Cat Knoerr (BA ‘14)
Stephen Shea (MPP ‘85)
Rick Rivas (MPP ‘05)
Sarah Koehn (BA ‘14)
Alumni board members strive to increase the visibility of the Ford School; to strengthen the school’s alumni network;
Bob Wolf (MPP/MBA ‘86)
Mikhail Zolikoff (MPP ‘05)
Yuchen Lu (MPP ‘14)
John Decker (BA/MPP ‘87)
Valerie Sathe Brugeman (MPP ‘07)
Alyssa Mouton (MPP ‘14)
Francisco Sanchez (MPP ‘88)
Chris Dorle (MPP ‘07)
Erin Sullivan (MPP ‘14)
Nick Greifer (MPP ‘89)
Sarah Engle (MPP ‘07)
Christine Wagner (MPP ‘14)
Beth Soboleski (MPP ‘89)
Mayuri Guntupalli (MPP/MBA ‘07)
Alums, learn how you can share your career expertise with current students, hire or recruit Ford School students, attend Ford School events, and make a gift. fordschool.umich.edu/alumni
Interested in sharing your expertise by conducting a mock interview with a current student? Sign-up in Graduate Career Services (Suite #2200) during the Open House.
and to assist the school with student recruitment, career services, fundraising, and alumni relations activities. Jeff Barnes (MPP ‘09)
Dana Hopings (MPP ‘01)
Andrew Schroeder (MPP ‘07)
Elle Beard (BA ‘09)
Claire Hutchinson (MPP ‘14)
Dan Sheppard (MPP ‘90)
Adam Cowing (MPP ‘08)
Maureen Donohue Krauss (MPP ‘85)
Simon Tam (MPP ‘11)
Peter Fritz (MPP/MBA ‘10)
Catherine Lomax (MPP ‘01)
Jomo Thorne (MPP/MBA ‘08)
Keith Fudge (MPP ‘09)
Victor Miesel (MPP ‘87)
Ashley Weech (BA ‘10)
Tres Fuller (BA ‘10)
Daniela Pineda (PhD ‘10)
Paul Weech (MPP ‘81)
Paul Hanna (MPP ‘05)
Kelsey Rhodes (BA ‘14)
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Self-nominations now being accepted for Ford School Alumni Board: fordschool.umich.edu/alumni-board/nomination
The Centennial Reunion is made possible, in part, by the generosity of the Trehan Foundation. Our thanks to the many staff, faculty, and volunteers who played a role in planning our Centennial celebration.
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