American University Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Public Administration and Policy
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Chair David Pitts
Associate Chair Alison Jacknowitz
Academic Advisors Renee Howatt, Kim Kokich, Janet Nagler, Corrine Thompson-Melissari
SPA PhD Program Director Laura Langbein
Key Executive Leadership Programs Director Patrick Malone
MSOD Program Director Ruth Wagner
Full-Time Faculty
Professor Emeritus R.E. Cleary, D.H. Koehler, B.R. Schiller
Distinguished Professor D.H. Rosenbloom
Professor S.A. Bass, R.F. Durant, C.M. Kerwin, L.I. Langbein, H.E. McCurdy, B.S. Romzek, J. Shiffman, E. Tekin, V.M. Wilkins
Associate Professor Emeritus H. Lieber, D.G. Zauderer
Associate Professor A. Amirkhanyan, K. Farquhar, D.S. Hyra, A. Jacknowitz, J. Johnston, D.R. Mullins, D. Pitts
Assistant Professor L. Faulk, S. Gershenson, B. Hardy, T. Morrissey, E. Stazyk, S. Walti
Professorial Lecturer N. Kahn, A. Kline, J. Palmer, D.L. Puskin
Distinguished Scholar in Residence R. Marshak
Distinguished Executive in Residence D. Fiorino
Executive in Residence P. Malone, R. Zaplin
Scholar in Residence K. Baehler
Distinguished Practitioner in Residence R. Tobias
Through its teaching and key location in Washington, DC, the Department of Public Administration and Policy (DPAP) seeks to enhance the knowledge, professional skills, and leadership potential of its students in their public service careers.
Graduate degrees offered by the department include the Master of Public Administration (MPA), Master of Public Policy (MPP), and PhD in Public Administration. The department also offers two executive master’s degrees: the Key Executive Leadership MPA; and the Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD); as a public service, it also offers a variety of noncredit and nondegree executive education programs. DPAP is the only department in the nation to have three master’s programs accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). The United States and other governments worldwide face the challenge of discerning how best to harness the energy and expertise of public servants, the passion and commitment of nonprofit organizations, and the dynamism and creativity of markets in the pursuit of democratic and constitutionally informed public purposes. We educate students entering, engaged in, and interacting with government agencies in the United States and abroad. We treat administration and policy as interrelated subjects strongly influenced by the values of public service and democratic constitutionalism. Through our research and civic involvement, we also seek to shape and enhance what is practiced and taught in our field.
ProgramsMinorMaster’s ProgramGraduate CertificateDoctoral Program
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