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Internship Opportunities, Career Options and Scholarships
For four decades, Michigan State University has been honoring the life of an undergraduate science enthusiast who helped to pioneer internships in the Michigan Legislature.
A new year of...
2020's First Forum: Redrawing Michigan's Voting Districts
Michigan’s first-ever citizen redistricting initiative is underway and Michigan State University’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research opened the new year with a Public Policy Forum...
Roads, Communities, Policies and Politics in the New Year
After three sluggish years, Michigan’s economy could perk up in 2020 with relaxed tariffs, an end to the General Motors’ strike and a bipartisan North American Free Trade Agreement, Institute for...
Red State Blues: New Grossmann Book Reviewed on SOSS Podcast
Republicans have overtaken Democratic control of state legislatures across the country, but strict conservative policies haven’t found complete favor with the public, a new book from a Michigan...
Michigan on the Edge of Recession? Term Limits on Edge of Reverse?
While the nation has gained more than a million jobs this year, job growth in the U.S. heartland is...
Meet Up with MPLP at Battle Creek
Michigan State University’s Michigan Political Leadership Program is on the road again and making a stop in Battle Creek on Tuesday, Dec. 3 to share leadership successes and paths to greater...
Urban Meets Rural: Balancing Human and Environmental Health
While cooler weather seems to be moderating some of the risk, health authorities are still counseling caution when taking part in outdoor activities that bring people and nature together including...
Michigan Shy of Substitute Teachers
Michigan is experiencing a shortage of substitute teachers, leaving school district superintendents unable to fill temporarily vacant positions several times a schoolweek, new research conducted...
Wonderful Honor: Three MPLP Winners are Wonder Women
In a first for Michigan State University’s Michigan Political Leadership Program, three women with ties to the leadership program – including MPLP’s Co-Director -- are winners of 2019 WONder Woman...
High Great Lakes Waters May Flow Through to 2020
If Great Lakes' water levels seemed high this year, 2020's coastlines could see even more waves lapping at their edges, panelists at IPPSR's most recent Public Policy Forum said this month in...
