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- Title
Graduate Education in Public Affairs/Public Administration: Results of the 1975 Survey.
- Authors
Fritschler, A. Lee; Mackelprang, A. J.
- Abstract
Graduate education in public affairs and public administration is one of the few growth areas in higher education today. The challenges which face governments continue to grow; and the university community seems to be responding to those challenges by revising curricula, expanding programs, increasing enrollment, and encouraging membership in the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). When the results of the 1973 survey of schools of public affairs/public administration (PA/A) were published in the March/April 1975 issue of the Public Administration Review, several important questions were raised about the state of progress in the field, the academic content of programs, the size of graduate enrollments, and the contribution of the schools to the development of a profession of public management. The data in this article are from the 138 completed survey questionnaires of the 1975 NASPAA survey. Graduate education in PA/A has shown substantial growth during the past two years, both in number of programs and number of students. The profession has also shown considerable progress in attracting minorities and women. In terms of content and focus of PA/A programs, there is substantially more consistency among programs than was observed in 1973. Programs in PA/A appear to be reaching a fair degree of consensus on the fundamental aspects of graduate education in PA/A.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC administration education; NATIONAL Association of Schools of Public Affairs &; Administration; CURRICULUM; GRADUATE education; EDUCATIONAL programs; EDUCATIONAL surveys; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; POLITICAL planning
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1977, Vol 37, Issue 5, p488
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974696