University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Latest Posts
- July 27, 2010 | <a href="/users/wangruth">Ruth</a> <a href="/users/wangruth">Wang</a>Interested in promoting quality discussion and research in the areas of public administration, public policy, public affairs, and non-profit management at the undergraduate level? The Journal of Public Affairs Education has posted a call for papers for a journal and companion conference symposium on undergraduate education in 2011. Suggested...
- July 27, 2010 | <a href="/users/wangruth">Ruth</a> <a href="/users/wangruth">Wang</a>In keeping with the Michigan Chapter's theme of "Roosevelt in the Community," The Urban Planning and Community Development Center at Michigan took the initiative to increase Roosevelt member involvement in community service and community organizing activities. Along the way, they began to seek out new, creative ways to...
- April 23, 2010 | <a href="/users/wangruth">Ruth</a> <a href="/users/wangruth">Wang</a>This term, the UM chapter of Roosevelt Institute made it a chapter-wide goal to go beyond policy writing and get involved in the community. The Center on Urban Planning and Community Development at UM took initiative by planning a college tour for fifteen middle and high school students from Detroit public and charter schools. In...
- February 21, 2010 | <a href="/users/minty064">Mintaro</a> <a href="/users/minty064">Oba</a>Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, is seeking submissions from Roosevelters who want to publish on sustainable development. The deadline to submit is March 1, and authors may submit through the journal’s new web interface, at http://journals.cdrs.columbia.edu/consilience/index.php/consilience/author/submit/1. ...
- February 5, 2010 | <a href="/users/tarsi-dunlop">Tarsi</a> <a href="/users/tarsi-dunlop">Dunlop</a>Fantastic Summer Opportunity Intern in Washington D.C. or Chicago for ten weeks this summer, and get paid. The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network is proud to bring you the third Roosevelt Summer Academy. From June 3rd through August 12th, you will intern in a DC organization or with Roosevelt, attend a...
- January 28, 2010 | <a href="/users/davidbennett">David</a> <a href="/users/davidbennett">Bennett</a>The University of Michigan’s Center on Urban Planning and Community Development aspires to be a “think-and-do-tank”—what every think tank should be, in our opinion! Like Roosevelt at large, we believe that it is up to us, the Millennial Generation, to approach everything we’ve ever known in an entirely new way. How else can we hope to achieve...
- January 26, 2010 | <a href="/users/vbieberich">Valerie</a> <a href="/users/vbieberich">Bieberich</a>I joined Roosevelt because I wanted to make policy change. Being published is nice, but I want those ideas to go somewhere beyond the pages of our policy journals. At the University of Michigan chapter of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, we found that many of our members feel the same way. This desire to see our...
- January 6, 2010 | <a href="/users/monika-johnson">Monika</a> <a href="/users/monika-johnson">Johnson</a>Call for Submissions Midwest v2.0: New Innovations, Re-energized Workforce, Sustainable Future About the 2009-2010 Regional Policy Theme Throughout the 2009-2010 school year, Roosevelt students have been tasked with solving problems that face them daily: the transformation of the Midwestern economy and workforce from an...
- November 9, 2009 | <a href="/users/vbieberich">Valerie</a> <a href="/users/vbieberich">Bieberich</a>We all know the economy is bad, and even worse in the Midwest. We've heard story after story about the tragedies of our declining industrial cities, leading us to write them off as lost causes. The nation's unemployment rate rose to 10.2% in October, and if the underemployed are included, the figure rises to 17.5%. In Detroit,...
- October 28, 2009 | <a href="/users/charlie-piggott">Charlie</a> <a href="/users/charlie-piggott">Piggott</a>When people talk about "power" in an international relations context, it is frequently presumed to refer to the use or threat of military force by one country to influence another. This ignores so-called "soft power," which is the process of using positive incentives to promote peace and cooperation between nations. The United States sponsors many...