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Janet A. Weiss

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs-Graduate Studies and Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies

Janet A. Weiss is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs-Graduate Studies, Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, and the Mary C. Bromage Collegiate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy. She holds faculty appointments in both the University of Michigan Business School and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Professor Weiss has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan since 1983. She has been Associate Provost since May 2002 and has responsibilities for a broad range of academic and faculty issues. She was Associate Dean of the Business School between 1992 and 1997, and before that served as Associate Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies at Michigan (before it became the School of Public Policy). Before coming to the University of Michigan, she was on the faculty of the School of Organization and Management at Yale University. Professor Weiss received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations and a B.A. from Yale University.

Professor Weiss was the founder of the Nonprofit and Public Management Center at the University of Michigan, a collaborative effort of the Schools of Business, Public Policy, and Social Work. This center enriches the curricular offerings of the professional schools in the domain of nonprofit and public management. It also provides a focus for the rich set of volunteer, internship, project, and extracurricular opportunities available to professional degree students, and stimulates research and inquiry in nonprofit and public management among faculty and doctoral students.

Weiss' research is focused on public management and public policy. She has published widely in academic journals on the roles of information and ideas in the policy process. She has also done extensive research on the challenges of public management, and the interplay between policy design and the management of public programs. Her work on education policy, in particular, has led to her involvement as an expert advisor to a group of major corporations in Michigan and several national commissions on education reform. She has also consulted to non-profit and public sector clients at the federal and state levels. She has been active in the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and served on a number of editorial boards.

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