Sullivan appoints Ford School dean search committee

A search advisory committee has been appointed by Provost Teresa Sullivan to identify finalists for the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Sheldon Danziger, the H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy and co-director of the National Poverty Center in the Ford School, is serving as chair of the committee that met for the first time Jan. 10.

Other members of the search advisory committee, who are from the Ford School unless otherwise noted, include:

• Robert Axelrod, Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding and professor of political science, LSA; professor of public policy, Ford School

• Evan Caminker dean and professor of law, Law School

• Alan Deardorff, John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and professor of economics and public policy, LSA; professor of public policy, Ford School

• Maria Dooner, graduate student, Master of Public Policy program

• Lloyd Grieger, doctoral student and graduate student instructor (GSI) of sociology, LSA; GSI of public policy, Ford School

• Joel Howell, Victor Vaughn Professor of the History of Medicine, professor of internal medicine, director of clinical scholars program, and director of the Program in Society and Medicine, Medical School; professor of history, LSA; professor of health services management and policy, School of Public Health

• Ann Lin, associate professor of political science, LSA; associate professor of public policy, Ford School

• Olga Savic, chair, Ford School Alumni Board of Governors

• Trey Williams, director of student and academic services

• Alford Young Jr., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, associate professor of sociology and of Afroamerican and African Studies, LSA.

All members of the search advisory committee can be reached through a dedicated e-mail address, fsppdeansearch@umich.edu.

Sullivan has asked the committee to conduct a national search and identify a list of finalists by late spring. Rebecca Blank, who announced her resignation earlier this month after eight years in the position, plans to return to U-M as a faculty member when her term as dean ends July 31.

"Dean Blank is to be commended for her outstanding leadership of the school—particularly for her hard work raising funds and guiding the construction of the new Joan and Sanford Weill Hall that opened in August and now houses the Ford School, and for developing a Bachelor of Arts undergraduate degree program that is poised to enroll its first class of students in Fall 2007," Sullivan says.

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