ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan alumnus Robert N. McKerr, who held key positions in Michigan state government and public policy from the late 1950s until his retirement in the 1990s, will deliver the U-M Staebler Lecture on “Values, Ethics and Public Policy” at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Michigan League‘s Vandenberg Room.

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Sponsored by the U-M’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Staebler Lecture and Award honors a Ford School graduate who has made a distinguished contribution to public service. McKerr’s talk is free to the public.

After graduating from the U-M with a master of public administration degree in 1958, McKerr served as a budget analyst in the state’s Department of Administration and later became a key member of the budget staff in the Department of Social Services. In 1966, he was named the deputy superintendent for finance, legislation and personnel in the Michigan Department of Education, serving as the department’s principal liaison with the state legislature.

From 1984 until 1994, McKerr worked for the Citizens Research Council of Michigan, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that researches public policy issues. He also served as interim director of the House Fiscal Agency in 1993.

The Staebler Award is a program of the Neil Staebler Fund for Political Education at the Ford School. The Fund was established in 1987 to honor Neil Staebler, one of Michigan’s premier political activists whose public life was devoted to increasing the political participation of the state’s citizens.

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