Undergraduate and Doctoral Education in Public Policy (original) (raw)

In 1986, a small group of public policy faculty gathered at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for a conference on what was then a novel enterprise in professional education for public service. The enterprise grew into the dozens of master's programs in policy analysis and management that now cover not only the United States but the globe, and on the twentieth anniversary of that influential meeting, APPAM organized a conference at Park City, Utah, where a much larger group of faculty gathered to reflect backward on how policy analysis education had evolved, and forward on where it should be going. The Park City conference was organized around a set of commissioned papers, each providing a starting point and common ground for discussion sessions that were in turn recorded by rapporteurs. Rapporteurs were asked to write essays capturing the most important themes of their sessions, not to merely transcribe the conversation, and they did so admirably. The Curriculum and Case Notes section of JPAM is publishing a selection of the papers and discussion reports. This is the fourth and final installment. It includes Eric Jensen's paper on law, economics, and craft skills courses, with Roland Cole's discussion report; a review of practitioners' participation in MPP programs by Robert Garris, Janice Madden, and William Rodgers, and its discussion report by Kenneth Apfel; the paper on policy Ph.D. and undergraduate programs by Dylan Conger, Joseph Cordes, Helen Ladd, and Michael Luger and a discussion report by Cordes; and my paper on pedogical issues with the discussion report by Michael Lipsky.