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‒PU B L I C AD M I N I S T R AT I O N A N D PO L I C Y GR A D UAT E PRO G R A M S

CONTENTS

1 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

2 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

6 THE AU ADVANTAGE

8 MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

10 MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY

12 DOCTORAL STUDIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

15 FAQS ABOUT THE PHD

16 AU—LEADER IN NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS

18 CAREER DEVELOPMENT

20 SPA ALUMNI AT WORK

22 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY FACULTY

29 GRADUATE ADMISSION

32 DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS

A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

The public sector has never been more dynamic; opportunities to lead

change in our world have never been greater. Increasingly, leaders from

the public and private sectors work side by side to mount initiatives around the

country—and the world. Executives in today’s public service must have the

skills to manage across sectors.

Our professional degrees—the MPA and the MPP—provide you with the

expert knowledge and skills necessary to tackle the complex challenges of today:

social issues, immigration, health care, and more. These degrees are also the

marks of principled leadership. Whether in nonprofit management, public

financial management, or another field, our curriculum is based in ethics and

built on leadership values.

The School of Public Affairs is strongly connected with the leaders of our capital

city. Living in Washington will reward you with unique opportunities to

observe and interact with policy and decision makers. You will become an active

participant in the political landscape and experience the energy of being

connected to the work of the country. Internships and cooperative educational

opportunities with major government agencies and national and international

organizations will allow you to work with those leaders, develop personal

networks, and hone your critical skills.

Finally, we are an engaged community of leading scholars and top practitioners.

Our faculty—renowned for both teaching and research—play an active and

integral role in the intellectual, professional, and personal development of every

student. The quality of instruction you receive as an SPA student is unparalleled.

If you share our commitment to engaged learning, and ultimately to becoming

a part of a world of change and action, we at American University’s School of

Public Affairs look forward to working with you.

William M. LeoGrandeDeanSchool of Public AffairsAmerican University

2AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

www.spa.american.edu

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY’SSCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

The School of Public Affairs at American University ranks 10th in the

nation (U.S. News & World Report). Our location in Washington,

D.C., our national programs, and our professors provide a distinct advantage

in preparing future leaders for careers in today’s public service—the fastest

growing and most dynamic segment of the economy, where government,

consulting, and nonprofit and private enterprise converge.

As a graduate student here, you will benefit from a renowned and well-

connected faculty, small classes, a strong curriculum—and, of course, from

access to leaders in your field of interest, to preeminent institutions, and to

Washington’s vast and unique resources.



You will be in excellent company at the Schoolof Public Affairs. Each year we enroll an aca-demically outstanding and diverse group ofmaster’s and doctoral candidates from acrossthe United States and around the world. Many have substantial experience as full-timeprofessionals or through internships. All arecommitted to today’s public service, which iseffectively integrating the public, for-profit,and nonprofit spheres. The School of PublicAffairs at American University provides youwith the necessary skills and contacts to excelin this exciting and expanding field.

In recognition of graduate candidates’ ongoingcareers, the school offers an evening-basedmaster’s curriculum, which allows students tocontinue working while completing their degreeand to benefit from internship experience.

ACADEMICS AT THE SCHOOL

OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

AU’s School of Public Affairs demands of itsfaculty solid and engaged teaching, as well as excellent research and scholarship. Ourfaculty are nationally recognized scholar-practitioners in the fields of policy, politics,and administration—the foundation of today’s public service.

The school consists of three main departments:public administration and policy; government;and justice, law and society. As a student, youhave the opportunity to take courses in each.Our rigorous graduate curriculum draws froman array of academic disciplines, which enablesyou to explore career options. By design, the curriculum translates leading research andtheory into practical knowledge for solving real problems.

The master’s degrees prepare practitioners ingovernment, nonprofit organizations, and theprivate sector, as well as those who wish topursue additional graduate study. The school’sdoctoral program produces scholars who haveachieved intellectual mastery of their field andcontribute to the advancement of knowledgethrough original research and teaching.

All courses of study share these fundamentalgoals: to develop the individual’s capacity forcritical thought, scholarship, professionalism,lifelong learning, and leadership.

School of Public AffairsGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Department of PublicAdministration and Policy

• Master of Public Administration

• Master of Public Policy

• PhD in Public Administration

• Key Executive Leadership Masterof Public Administration

• MS in Organization Development

Department of Government

• MA in Political Science

• PhD in Political Science

Department of Justice, Law and Society

• MS in Justice, Law and Society

• JD-MS in Law and Justice

• PhD in Justice, Law and Society

THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

PROVIDES YOU WITH THE NECESSARY SKILLS AND CONTACTS TO

EXCEL IN TODAY’S PUBLIC SERVICE.



THE WASHINGTON EXPERIENCE

Washington, D.C., serves as a unique and vitallaboratory for students and faculty in policyand administration. A locus of all levels of government—local, regional, state, national,and international—the region also boasts hundreds of private- and public-sector and international organizations.

As a graduate student in AU’s School of PublicAffairs, you interact regularly with nationalexperts on campus and guest lecturers in yourclasses, and you participate in professional andscholarly conferences, panels, and special eventsacross the city.

You have access to outstanding resources foryour research, including the Organization ofAmerican States, the Library of Congress, theSmithsonian Institution, the National Archives,advocacy groups, and national associations. Inaddition, the university’s own Bender Librarycontains more than a million volumes and is amember of the Washington Research LibraryConsortium (WRLC), a shared digital libraryestablished by eight area universities.

Washington also affords the opportunity for significant field experience. Through internshipsand cooperative education, you test theory in practical applications, explore how publicpolicy and administration affect public life, and make long-lasting contacts.

IT ALL HAPPENS IN D.C. Washington boasts more governmental entities, privatecorporations, and nonprofit organizations than any othercity in the world:

• 85 federal agencies and departments

• 332,000 federal employees

• 535 congressional offices

• 788 international associations, businesses, and institutions, including the World Bank, the IMF, and U.N. offices

• 16,000 national and international nonprofits



Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House; John Breaux, former senator (D-La.); and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)

Bishop Desmond Tutu

President Jimmy Carter

Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.)

Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state

John Edwardsformer senator(D-N.C.)

Tom Ridge, former homeland security secretary

Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.)

WASHINGTON, D.C., SERVES AS A UNIQUE AND VITAL LABORATORY FOR STUDENTS

AND FACULTY IN POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION. YOU INTERACT REGULARLY WITH

EXPERTS AND GUEST LECTURERS ON CAMPUS AND IN YOUR CLASSES.

Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state



THE AU ADVANTAGE

• SPA faculty members are leaders in their fields—as authors of major

publications, cutting-edge researchers, and experts in public policy and

administration, nonprofit management, government finance, and social

policy. With their range of experience in both scholarship and practice,

faculty members bring important issues into the classroom and encourage

student collaboration through research on public administration problems,

policy dilemmas, and ethical issues.

• Washington, D.C., is the center of today’s public service—the intersection

of public and private collaboration. SPA faculty and alumni are involved at

every level of government, in private organizations, and as consultants.

Interaction with them offers students exceptional learning opportunities.

Students regularly engage in analysis of government performance and policy

implementation, conduct interviews with organization leaders, and track

legislation and its impact.

• The unique network of AU faculty and alumni provides SPA graduate

students with distinct professional advantages—and the most challenging

opportunities in the capital and across the country.

SPA distinguished professor James Thurber, left, withSenator Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Obama was the keynotespeaker at a 2006 lobbying reform summit cosponsored bySPA’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.



EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS

Increasing Leadership CapacityThe School of Public Affairs is the preeminent national center for executive education. SPA’s executive degrees in publicadministration and organization development attract professionals from across the nation. Courses are offered on select weekends on an accelerated schedule.

The Key Executive Leadership MPA is the nation’s only accreditedexecutive master’s program in public administration. Founded in 1975, the pioneering Key MPA is designed for government

executives (GS-13 or equivalent andabove) and other public sector andnonprofit executives.

The AU/NTL master of science inorganization development (MSOD)is the leading advanced degree forprofessionals in organization change.Built on a partnership between AU’s School of Public Affairs and the National Training Laboratories,

the program provides students with a solid theoretical andexperiential foundation for OD scholarship and practice.

Both the Key and AU/NTL programs, taught by renownedSchool of Public Affairs faculty, accommodate working professionals through:

• cohort education• weekend schedules• accelerated studies

For more information, contact [email protected].

AU's School of Public Affairs is the only school in thenation to offer a NASPAA-accredited Executive MPA.

TODAY’S PUBLIC SERVICE IS THE FASTEST

GROWING AND MOST DYNAMIC SEGMENT OF THE

ECONOMY, WHERE GOVERNMENT, CONSULTING, AND

NONPROFIT AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE CONVERGE.

Gwen Sykes, formerNASA CFO, Key ’01



MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

R anked eighth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, AU’s

master of public administration (MPA) prepares students for leader-

ship responsibilities and executive roles in public agencies, national and

international nonprofit organizations, and private firms. With the help of

faculty, you develop critical multidisciplinary management and analytical

skills for addressing public policy issues and setting organizational goals.

Students learn the values of public administration as a profession, study

the constitutional and political forces that shape today’s public service, and

cultivate the specialized knowledge required for work in that field.



The MPA is built on four components that setthe leadership education standard for today’spublic service:

• core courses covering basic managementprocesses and conceptual skills

• advanced-level courses in management,including financial issues, human resourcemanagement, team building, public-privatepartnerships, project and general management

• specialized areas of concentration

• practical fieldwork (internships, cooperativeeducation placement)

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

You earn an MPA by completing 42 credit hoursof approved graduate work, with a GPA of 3.0(on a 4.0 scale) or better, and by earning a satis-factory grade on a comprehensive exam thatincludes an exercise in management analysis anda reflective essay.

Course Requirements

• Problem Solving for Managers orMethods of Problem Solving I

• Management Analysis

• Public Administration in the Policy Process

• Legal Basis of Public Administration orComparative Administrative Systems (for international students returning to countriessupporting legal systems other than Anglo-American or European, with permission of their academic advisor)

• Public Managerial Economics

• The Individual and the Organization

• Internship (3 credits for precareer students;optional for students with professional experience)

Two of the following:

• Topics in Public Management

• Government and Nonprofit Informatics

• Public-Private Partnerships

• Project Management

• Leadership in a Changing Workplace

• Facilitation and Team Development

• Human Resource Management Strategies

One of the following:

• Financing Government Services

• Budget and Cost Analysis

• Financial Aspects of Public Management

NOTE: Course requirements are subject to change;visit www.spa.american.edu for current listings.

Areas of Concentration

Students take 9 to 12 credit hours in an area ofconcentration. With approval, you may designyour own concentration.

• public financial management

• state and local administration

• international management

• policy analysis

• human resource management

• arts management

• nonprofit management

• information systems management

• management consulting

• public management

MPA

Background: liberal arts, social sciences, political science, economics, public administration, business, prelaw

Course of study: leadership-based curriculum complemented by analytical applications and problem solving using quantitative approaches

Selected career options: program manager, research director, public affairs specialist, community development organizer, public health advocate, city manager

“AU prepared me for a life of

public service. Excellent professors

and a dedicated community of

students combine to make AU

a world-class institution.”

Congressman Jim McGovern(D-Mass.), SPA/MPA ’84



MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY

The challenge for policy makers in today’s most dynamic sector is to

make farsighted choices in the context of competing social, political,

legal, economic, and security needs. Clarifying agency objectives, identifying

the public interest, and pursuing what is just, efficient, and legal—all of these

are part of the policy process. Whether you desire to advise policy makers

or to make policy yourself, and if you wish to understand the politics and

economics of public policy design, AU’s MPP is for you.

The School of Public Affairs is dedicated to finding better ways to design,

manage, implement, and evaluate government programs, which touch

our lives in countless ways. Our MPP emphasizes the development of cutting-

edge methodological and analytical skills, as they apply to specific public

policy problems.

The Master of Public Policy offers four primary areas of competency: decision-

making or analysis, economics, managerial and administrative issues, and a

contextual understanding of the political, social, organizational, legal, and

ethical aspects of public policy. In addition to the core course work, you can

choose an area of concentration from among a variety of fields.



MPP

Background: economics, political science, urban planning, statistics, international relations

Course of study: analytical and quantitative-based curriculum complemented by selected topics or focus areas

Selected career options: policy director, budget analyst, project manager, research associate, grant specialist, educational services consultant

GRADUATE CERTIFICATES

If you have already earned a graduate degreeor you do not wish to pursue a degree atpresent, a certificate will enhance your skills and academic credentials for careeradvancement. Certificates are offered inthe following areas:



• public policy analysis

• organizational change

• executive leadership

• nonprofit management

• women, policy, and political leadership

Certificate enrollment requirements:

• 15–18 credit hours of approved graduate study to be completed within four years of admission

• minimum of 6 credit hours for each 12-month period until the program is completed

• bachelor’s degree from an accreditedinstitution

The MPP is built on components that set the policy education standard for today’s public service:

• core courses covering problem solving, policyand organizational analysis, economics, andfinance

• advanced-level courses on policy in the governmental context and applied policy analysis

• specialized areas of concentration

• practical fieldwork (internships, cooperativeeducation placement) and policy practicum

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

You earn an MPP by completing 39 credit hoursof approved graduate work, with a minimumGPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale).

Course Requirements

• Methods of Problem Solving I

• Methods of Problem Solving II

• Policy Process

• Foundations of Policy Analysis

• Public Managerial Economics

• Financing Government Services

• Organizational Analysis

• Policy Practicum


• Public Program Evaluation

• Economics and Politics of Public Policy

• Topics in Policy Analysis and Management:Cost Benefit Analysis


• Legal Basis of Public Administration

• Project Management

• Ethical Issues in Public Policy

• Leadership in a Changing Workplace

The capstone course, Economics and Politics of Public Policy, covers economics, politics,quantitative methods, and program evaluation.Students are encouraged to apply these to a specific policy area.

NOTE: Course requirements are subject to change;see www.spa.american.edu for most current listings.

Areas of Concentration

Students take 9 credit hours in an area of concentration, which may include a 3-creditinternship (for precareer students; optional for students with professional experience). Withapproval, you may design your own concentration.

• social policy

• international development

• science, technology, and environmental policy

• crime, public law, and policy



• nonprofit policy, management, and leadership

• applied politics, including campaign management and women and politics

• comparative public policy

• advanced policy analysis



DOCTORAL STUDIES IN

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The PhD program in public administration at American University’s

School of Public Affairs offers the advantages of faculty, curriculum,

location, and flexibility. Our emphasis is to prepare top doctoral candidates

for careers as scholars. Over the last five years, more than half of our graduates

have entered academia and most of our current PhD candidates plan to pursue

university careers. Others become policy analysts, senior researchers for think

tanks, or work on Capitol Hill or elsewhere in government.

Every faculty member in the PhD program is a recognized scholar well

connected in Washington and across the country. By reputation and through

their active involvement in the field, they consistently open doors for our

students after graduation.

To ensure that our candidates are qualified, we require a solid foundation in

empirical theory and research methods. Most of our seminars are designed

exclusively for PhD students so they can focus on mastering the literature and

producing significant research. You will find these seminars both intellectually

challenging and creatively stimulating.

Our PhD graduates cite their training in qualitative and quantitative methods

as among the greatest benefits of the program. It is our goal to provide you

with the knowledge and skills necessary for conducting original and effective

research in your major field of study.



During the first year, we offer two invaluabletools to help you succeed in the program and inyour research or teaching career: one is workingknowledge of the ideas and issues relevant to eachfield, taught in three required proseminars; theother is methodology, a two-part course. Second-and third-year students take a combination ofadvanced research and methods seminars.

Drawing on these basic tools, our PhD studentsregularly present papers at professional confer-ences and many of them publish in major journals.

Our location in Washington, D.C., offers uniqueresources, among them the U.S. Congress, execu-tive agencies, and hundreds of interest groups andassociations. Our faculty and graduate candidatesavail themselves of unequaled primary sources,from elected and appointed officials to such majorresearch institutions as the Library of Congress and the National Archives.

Finally, the program is interdisciplinary, whichenables PhD candidates to take doctoral coursesin other fields within the School of Public Affairs:American politics, comparative politics, policyanalysis, research methods, and justice, law andsociety. Students may also choose a concentrationin a doctoral field outside SPA, including eco-nomics, international affairs, or history.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

• 72 credit hours (48 credits required for those with anapproved master’s degree)

• qualifying paper or exam at end of first year

• completed courses in three fields

• four comprehensive exams: research methods(satisfied by minimum of 9 methods credits),written exams in two fields, oral defense ofdissertation proposal

• final dissertation defense

First Year

Fall

• Proseminar 1 (American politics; comparativepolitics; public administration; justice, law and society)

• Proseminar 2 (American politics; comparativepolitics; public administration; justice, law and society)

• Conduct of Inquiry I

Spring

• seminar or policy proseminar

• seminar

• Conduct of Inquiry II

• qualifying paper (American politics, comparativepolitics, or policy) or exam (public administra-tion or justice, law and society)

Second Year

Fall

• field seminars

• complete research methods requirement (minimum of 9 credits)

• complete proseminar requirement, if needed

Third Year

• written comprehensive exams

• oral comprehensive exam (preparation anddefense of dissertation proposal)

• apply for competitive dissertation funding atend of year

• students without a master’s degree completecourse work

Fourth Year (or until degree is completed)

• Doctoral Dissertation Seminar (for students whoare researching and writing their dissertation)

• research and write dissertation

• maintain matriculation (for students who have completed course work but not dissertation or comprehensive exams: at least 1 credit foradministrative registration each fall and springuntil graduation)

“Earning my MPA with a concen-

tration in nonprofit management at

American University was essential to

my career path as a nonprofit

leader. As someone who truly

supports and believes in the non-

profit sector, I couldn’t have chosen

a better place than the School of

Public Affairs, which combines

strong academics with connections to

the meaningful and relevant work

experience D.C. uniquely offers.”

Quinci Moody, SPA/MPA ’05Director of Programs and Evaluation Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY)



The Public Purpose is a faculty-refereed, interdisciplinary journal produced by SPA graduate students. Since 2002, it has featured research papers on public administration and policy, government, and justice. The journal affords graduate students an opportunity to publish scholarlyarticles for a national academic audience.

“As a faculty member, I try to engage

the students in an active, exciting

learning process, where

they can test theories with their

day-to-day experience. I love the

diversity of the classroom—it

adds a tremendous amount to

the learning experience.”

Patrick Malone, PhD/SPA ’00 Faculty



FAQ’S ABOUT THE PhD

How much time will I have to devote to the program each week?Our courses are rigorous and many PhD students are surprised by the amount of time required to successfullycomplete the course work. This is especially true of full-time first-year students, who are required to attain workingknowledge of the literature in three fields of study and become proficient in methodology.

I don’t have a master’s degree. Can I still enroll in the PhD program?Yes, but keep in mind that if you do not have a master’s degree, you must take additional courses in order tocomplete the program.

Are PhD research projects supported by the School of Public Affairs?SPA has assisted doctoral students to present papers at national professional conferences and has reimbursedsome research expenses. The faculty encourages students to apply for both institutional and outside funding fordissertation projects. It is up to the individual student, however, to initiate and follow through with the fundingprocess, whether internal or external. Faculty members often enlist PhD students for assistance with externallyfunded research projects, which can be a source of support for dissertation or other student research.

Will I have the opportunity to teach?All PhD students interested in an academic career may participate in a university-wide program designed toimprove graduate assistants’ teaching techniques. Each participant begins by assistant teaching an undergraduatecourse, and then coteaching a course with a faculty mentor. Eventually, students may elect to teach their ownundergraduate course or set of courses.

Where can I live?The SPA graduate admissions office offers new graduate and doctoral students many resources for finding suitable housing. These include a Web site featuring a housing bulletin board and links for apartment rentals.

Will SPA help me find a job?Yes. We invest in you and are proactive in our commitment to help you. Our professors network for SPA graduatestudents, write letters of recommendation, advise students about the interviewing process, and work with you to help you find a job. The result is a high employment rate, with more than half of our graduates securingtenure-track academic positions, and most others substantial nonacademic jobs. Of course, the best way toobtain an academic appointment is to complete your dissertation, publish a refereed article, and have taught acourse by the time you enter the market.



AU—LEADER IN NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS

In recent years, AU has produced more Presidential Management

fellows than any other school in the country. The prestigious PMF—

a paid, two-year graduate program established to attract outstanding

individuals to federal service—puts fellows on the fast track to high-level

management positions.

SPA graduate students are also awarded other prestigious fellowships.

These include the GAO Professional Development, EPA Career Intern,

HHS Emerging Leaders, HUD Career Intern, ICMA Local Government

Management Fellowship, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public

Policy Fellowship, Capital City Fellows, and New York City Urban

Fellows programs.

The school’s successful record of placing students in these top fellowships

is a testament to the excellence of SPA graduate candidates and the quality

of faculty support and guidance.

SPA—A Tradition of Service

Students frequently enroll in SPA graduate programs after serving as domestic or international volunteers. Graduatecandidates bring to the classroom their diverse experiences from service in the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Teach ForAmerica, and other volunteer programs. During their studies, SPA graduate students frequently apply their expertiseand commitment to service through fundraising and community development projects.



AU Presidential Management fellows attend a reception on campus.

Frances Fragos Townsend (SPA/BA ’82), the president's top advisor on homeland security and counterterrorism, delivers the keynote address at the 28th annual Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership ceremony. Sponsored by SPA, the award honors outstanding senior executives in the federal government.

“We are proud of our tradition of being a top producer of PresidentialManagement fellows.” Meg WeekesAssociate Dean



Student–Faculty Collaborative ResearchAs a graduate student, you may collaborate witha faculty member on his or her research projecttoward preparation of a publishable article.Publishing attributed articles in professionaljournals significantly enhances your potential forfuture research and academic positions.

Field Experience: Internships and Co-opsSPA students prepare for leadership careersthrough cooperative education and internships,which combine academic study with practicalwork experience. Students can earn credit byworking with a faculty member on academicassignments related to on-the-job experiencesand current public administration and policyissues. Internships are available in a variety ofpublic, private, and nonprofit organizations, aswell as research and political organizations.

A co-op—a credit-based internship offered bythe federal government—gives students theopportunity to work in paid positions. Co-opsmay be converted to term, career, or career-conditional appointments following completionof your academic and work requirements.

Alumni and Faculty NetworksAmerican University’s alumni communitycounts among its 150,000 members many leaders in today’s public service, both on thenational and international levels. Among thoseSPA alumni who are actively involved with theschool and students are Representative JamesMcGovern (D-Mass.), Representative DonaldManzullo (R-Ill.), and former representative Ken Bentsen (D-Tex.). Others includeHomeland Security Advisor Frances FragosTownsend, General Barry McCaffrey, andnumerous CEOs, CFOs, and executive directorsof nonprofit organizations.

You can network and consult with alumni in a variety of professional fields through theAlumni Online Community, an excellent Web-based resource.

Another resource available to you is the SPA faculty. Practitioners as well as scholars, our professors provide excellent contacts and serveas invaluable mentors throughout your career.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

“The MPP program provided me

with a strong foundation for a

career in public service. The course

work in statistics and research

design gave me critical skills for

working in the federal government,

especially with the increased need

for establishing performance

measures. It is both exciting and

rewarding to be using my degree

in the field of public health.”

Jeanette Contreras, MPP ’04Congressional LiaisonOffice of Policy and AnalysisNational Cancer Institute



The Technological AdvantageNamed by Business Week as among the nation’stop wireless campuses, American Universityhas become established as a leader in providingadvanced resources for student research and learning.

AU’s high-speed network, EagleNet, directlyconnects each classroom and department tocampus computing resources and the Internet.Every graduate student receives an EagleNetaccount, allowing access to e-mail and the Web.SPA students and professors benefit from ourfully-staffed computer lab, which is equippedwith state-of-the-art hardware loaded with soft-ware packages designed to facilitate your studiesand research.

AU’s Web portal (my.american.edu) offers real-time academic and student account data,putting critical information at your fingertips.

State-of-the-Art Student InformationResourcesThe university’s Bender Library houses morethan a million volumes, 3,000 print periodicals,and more than a million microforms. Studentsalso have access to resources at Pence LawLibrary at AU’s Washington College of Law. You are encouraged to take advantage of freeworkshops on LexisNexis and other majorresearch tools. (Visit the library’s Web site atwww.library.american.edu.)

ALADIN, the library’s online catalog system,contains a wealth of current material, includingdatabases of periodicals, newspapers, journals,statistics, and other specialized resources. Thissystem is available to users holding a student ID through any computer with Internet access.ALADIN also accesses holdings at any of the seven other member universities of theWashington Research Library Consortium. AU’s wireless network enables you to connect to ALADIN and the Internet anywhereon campus.



Nonprofit Adventist Development and Relief

Agency InternationalAmerican Cancer SocietyAmerican Petroleum InstituteAnti-Defamation LeagueAssociation of University Centers

on DisabilitiesCenter for Individual RightsCentral American Resource CenterChemonics InternationalD.C. College Access ProgramD.C. VoiceEmpower ProgramFamilies USAHealth Insurance Association of AmericaHenry M. Jackson FoundationInstitute for Higher Education PolicyInter-American Development BankInternational Republican InstituteLupus Foundation of AmericaNational Association for College

Admission CounselingNational Coalition on Health CareNational Council of State Housing AgenciesNational Environmental TrustNational Low Income Housing CoalitionSierra ClubSpina Bifida Association of AmericaUrban InstituteWilderness SocietyWorld Bank

Public SectorBoard of Governors of the Federal

Reserve SystemCentral Intelligence AgencyCity of Clayton, OhioCourt Services and Offender

Supervision AgencyDefense Intelligence AgencyEnvironmental Protection AgencyFederal Aviation AdministrationFederal Emergency Management AgencyGeneral Services AdministrationGovernment of JapanGovernment of the District of ColumbiaInternational Monetary FundMissile Defense AgencyNational Aeronautics and Space

AdministrationNational Oceanic and Atmospheric

AdministrationNaval Sea Systems CommandOffice of ComplianceU.S. Air ForceU.S. Air Force Office of Special

InvestigationsU.S. ArmyU.S. Bureau of Economic AnalysisU.S. Coast GuardU.S. Department of AgricultureU.S. Department of CommerceU.S. Department of DefenseU.S. Department of EducationU.S. Department of EnergyU.S. Department of Health and

Human ServicesU.S. Department of Homeland SecurityU.S. Department of JusticeU.S. Department of LaborU.S. Department of StateU.S. Department of the TreasuryU.S. Federal Trade CommissionU.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationU.S. General Services AdministrationU.S. House of RepresentativesU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement U.S. Internal Revenue ServiceU.S. Naval Criminal Investigative ServiceU.S. NavyU.S. Office of Management and BudgetU.S. Postal ServiceU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionU.S. Senate

Private Sector Altria GroupBAE SystemsBearingPoint Inc.Booz Allen HamiltonBorger Management Inc.Computer Sciences Corporation Congressional QuarterlyCoray Gurnitz ConsultingDemocracy Data and CommunicationsFannie MaeGap International Inc. H. F. Huber and Son Inc.Inside Out LearningInternational Federation of Exhibition

and Event ServicesIQ Solutions Inc.Kaiser PermanenteKleinmann Communication GroupLRP PublicationsNational Capital Revitalization Corp.National Strategies Inc.Pfizer Inc.Segal CompanySENTECH Inc.SRA International Inc.Strategic Policy Research Inc.Tempus Consulting

SPA ALUMNI AT WORK

Public 37% Private 33%

Nonprofit 30%

School of Public Affairs Graduate Alumni

profile



“I credit American University’s

MPA program for equipping me

with the skills necessary to excel in

the private, nonprofit, and public

sectors of employment. The rigorous

academic program, coupled with

the experience of classmates and

professors, made my education more

enjoyable and increased my breadth

of knowledge well beyond textbooks

and homework assignments.”

Cheo Hurley, MPA/SPA ’01Real Estate Development ManagerForest City-New East BaltimorePartnership LLC

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND

POLICY FACULTY

The School of Public Affairs is the nation’s only school of its kind fully

accredited in three degrees by the National Association of Schools of

Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). Our MPA, MPP, and Key

Executive Leadership MPA programs set national standards for advanced

education in public affairs and administration.

ANNA A. AMIRKHANYAN

PhD, Syracuse University, Public AdministrationAnna Amirkhanyan’s research focuses on public and nonprofit management, research methodology, determinants and consequences of local government reforms, comparison oforganizational performance across sectors, social policy, andaging. Her teaching concentrations are quantitative methodsin public management and public policy, and nonprofit management and marketing. She received the Maxwell School’sDissertation Prize and the AU Faculty Research Award in the area of privatization of care for the elderly. Amirkhanyan has published articles in the International Journal of PublicAdministration, the Gerontologist, the Journals of Gerontology,and other leading journals. She is a frequent presenter at the National Public Management Research Conference, theAssociation for Public Policy Analysis and ManagementConference, and other national conferences.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS


“The U.S. faces a great challenge: how best to harness for public purposes the energy and expertise of career civil servants, the passion and commitment of nonprofit organizations, and the dynamism and creativity of markets,while ensuring the democratic and constitutional values that make us who we are as a nation?”

Robert F. DurantProfessor, Public Administration and Policy



ROBERT F. DURANT

PhD, University of Tennessee, Political ScienceRobert Durant’s teaching and research interests include executive branch politics, public management, policy imple-mentation, environmental policy, and administrative reform.The associate editor for administrative research for the PublicAdministration Review, he has published extensively in majorrefereed journals in public administration, political science, andpublic policy. His new book,The Greening of the U.S. Military:Environmental Policy, National Security, and OrganizationalChange, was published in 2007. Durant coedited EnvironmentalGovernance Reconsidered: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities(MIT, 2004). For his coauthored book, Managing for theEnvironment: Understanding the Legal, Organizational, andPolicy Challenges (Jossey-Bass,1999), he received the 2000 BestBook Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of theAcademy of Management, and the Outstanding Book Award inEnvironmental and Natural Resource Policy from the AmericanSociety for Public Administration.

In 1993, Durant received the Gladys M. Kammerer Awardfrom the American Political Science Association for TheAdministrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands, the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution (SUNY, 1992). In 2003, he receivedthe prestigious Charles H. Levine Memorial Award, givenjointly by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs andAdministration for excellence in research, teaching, and serviceto the wider community.

In addition, he has won four teaching awards and two best-journal article awards, sits on the editorial boards of seven disciplinary journals, was a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand(2002), and is a founding member and chair of the Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research andEducation. Recently, Durant was elected as a fellow to theNational Academy of Public Administration. He also was honored with the 2007 Leslie A. Whittington Award forExcellence in Teaching by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

KATHERINE FARQUHAR

PhD, Boston University, Social Psychology, Organization DevelopmentDirector of the AU/NTL Organization Development program,Katherine Farquhar has taught at AU since 1989. A tenuredmember of the AU faculty and a member of the NTLInstitute, she teaches courses on leadership, facilitation, conflictmanagement, interventions in organization systems, and organi-zation development, diagnosis, and change. Her research andconference presentations focus on executive transitions, leader-ship development, and organization development. Farquhar’sarticles have appeared in Human Resource Management, PublicAdministration Review, Human Relations, Business Horizons, and the International Journal of Public Administration. She consults for nonprofits and other clients on such issues as executive development, governance, and strategic planning.She has served on boards in the corporate and education sectorsand on committees for the Academy of Management andOrganization Development Network.

ALISON JACKNOWITZ

PhD, RAND Graduate School,Policy AnalysisAlison Jacknowitz is an assistant professor of publicadministration and policy.Her teaching interests includesocial policy, program evalua-tion, empirical analysis, andpolicy analysis. She receivedthe 2005–06 School of PublicAffairs Award for OutstandingTeaching in a Full-TimeAppointment. Jacknowitzconducts research on issuesrelated to poverty, income and food assistance programs, healthoutcomes, the elderly, and children and families. She is currentlyworking on a series of projects investigating why eligible womendo not participate in the Special Supplement Program forWomen, Infants, and Children (WIC). This research is fundedby the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research andthe United States Department of Agriculture. Jacknowitz’s previ-ous research has appeared in Demography, the Journal of PolicyAnalysis and Management, and the Journal of Human Resources.She has presented papers at the National Academy of Sciencesand at annual meetings of the American Public HealthAssociation, the Association for Public Policy Analysis andManagement, the Population Association of America, and theWestern Economic Association.

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JOCELYN M. JOHNSTON

PhD, Syracuse University, Public Administration Jocelyn Johnston’s teaching and research interests includeintergovernmental programs and policy, intergovernmental fiscal relations, public management, and government contract-ing. Her publications can be seen in such scholarly journals asPublic Administration Review, Journal of Public AdministrationResearch and Theory, Publius, State and Local GovernmentReview, and Health Affairs. She is active in the Association forBudgeting and Financial Management (former chair), theAmerican Political Science Association’s sections for PublicAdministration and Federalism/Intergovernmental Relations,and the Public Management Research Association. She is onthe executive committees of the latter two organizations.Johnston received the Kaufman Award for the Best Paper inPublic Administration, presented at the 2001 AmericanPolitical Science Association conference.

CORNELIUS M. KERWIN,UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

PhD, Johns Hopkins University,Political ScienceNeil Kerwin was appointed to the AU faculty in 1975 and hasheld various leadership positionswithin the School of Public Affairs,including dean from 1988 to 1997.He served as provost from 1997 to 2005, when he became interimpresident. As of September 1, 2007,he began his term as AmericanUniversity’s 14th president.

In addition to his administrativeresponsibilities, Kerwin is activelyengaged in teaching and research. Aspecialist in public policy with anemphasis on the regulatory process,

he teaches courses in administrative process, policy implemen-tation, and American government.

Kerwin is the author of Rulemaking: How GovernmentAgencies Write Law and Make Policy, 3d ed. (CQ, 2000) and coauthor of How Washington Works, 3d ed. (ThomasHorton, 1996). His scholarly articles have appeared in PublicAdministration Review, Journal of Politics, Policy Studies Review,Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Judicature,Justice System Journal, and the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

Active in a number of professional associations and societies,he was elected a fellow of the National Academy of PublicAdministration in 1996 and chaired the Fellow NominatingCommittee in 2000. A member of the National Council ofthe National Association of Schools of Public Affairs andAdministration, Kerwin served as president in 1998. He wasalso on the Leonard D. White Award Committee of theAmerican Political Science Association.

ROBERT KRAMER

PhD, George Washington University, ManagementRobert Kramer’s scholarly publications, which include A Psychology of Difference (Princeton, 1996), explore the intellectual history of emotional intelligence. They havebeen published in the U.S. and the U.K. and translated forpublication in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, and the Netherlands. In 2004, he received ASPA’s CurriculumInnovation Award for instituting action learning as the leader-ship development model for the Key Executive Leadership MPA program, which he directed from 2002 to 2005. From2002 to 2004, he served on the board of directors of theOrganizational Behavior Teaching Society, an internationalgroup of professors of management education. In 2002, hereceived the Outstanding Teacher Award from SPA.

Before joining AU, Kramer served in government for 25years, including service on Vice President Al Gore’s task forceto reinvent government. In 1999, he was a Fulbright professorin Budapest, Hungary. Since then, he has conducted leader-ship development programs in central and eastern Europe topromote democracy in post-Communist societies. He speaksregularly on leadership topics at the American Society forPublic Administration, the American Psychological Association,and other groups. He also teaches action learning at theThierry Graduate School of Leadership in Brussels, Belgium.

SAMUEL KRISLOV, SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

PhD, Princeton University, PoliticsSamuel Krislov has held positions with APSA and theCalifornia Judicial Council, the National Research Council, theLaw and Society Association, and the Midwest Political ScienceAssociation. His scholarly articles have appeared in such publications as Oxford Companion to American Law, Publius,Jurimetrics, Comparative Governance, and a variety of law jour-nals, including Harvard, Yale, and Cornell. Among his booksare Representative Bureaucracy (Prentice Hall, 1974), HowNations Choose Product Standards (University of Pittsburgh,1997), and Constitutional Law, 2d ed., coedited with MalcolmFeeley (Scott Foresman/Little, Brown; 1990). Krislov was the2000–01 John Marshall Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and receivedthe Lifetime Achievement Award, Law and Courts Section, ofAPSA. Among his numerous other awards are Guggenheim,Russell Sage, Ford, and Rockefeller fellowships.





LAURA I. LANGBEIN

PhD, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Political ScienceLaura Langbein teaches quantitative methods, program evalu-ation, policy analysis, and public choice. Her research fieldsinclude theories of bureaucratic discretion, productivity, prin-cipal agent models, social capital, and cooperation in theworkplace. Additional areas are theories of influence among

interest groups in Congress andgovernment bureau-cracy, and empiricalapplications in suchpolicy areas as envi-ronment, education,defense, housing,criminal justice, andcorruption. Herwork has appearedin Political ResearchQuarterly, Journal of Politics, Journal of Policy Analysis and

Management, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of PublicAdministration Research and Theory, Evaluation Review, PublicChoice, Public Administration Review, and other scholarly journals. She also has coauthored articles with SPA graduatestudents and AU president Neil Kerwin.

Currently, Langbein is studying the consequences of varyinglevels of discretion in federal agencies. She is also studying thestability of both the presence and the relative absence of corrup-tion in many countries. She recently published Public ProgramEvaluation: A Statistical Guide (M. E. Sharpe, 2006), a text-book cowritten with Claire Felbinger. In 2002, she was theHooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMasterUniversity in Hamilton, Ontario. She gave the keynote address at the 2006 meeting of the Southern Evaluation Association.

HARVEY LIEBER

PhD, Columbia University, Political ScienceAn interest in the environment—its conservation and management—is the foundation for Harvey Lieber’s teachingand research. He is the author of Federalism and Clean Waters:The 1972 Water Pollution Control Act (Lexington, 1975)and has received a grant to study water pollution and waterresources management. Lieber has testified before the SenateCommittee on Public Works regarding air and water pollution and has served as executive secretary of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency Administrator’s ToxicSubstances Control Advisory Committee. Currently, as intern-ship director of the public administration department, headvises students on career opportunities, including the presti-gious Presidential Management Fellows Program.

HOWARD E. MCCURDY

PhD, Cornell University; PublicAdministration, Public Finance,American PoliticsHoward McCurdy is an expert in public administration, finance, policy, and management; Americanpolitics; and organization theory.With fellow faculty member David Rosenbloom, he publishedRevisiting Waldo’s AdminstrativeState: Constancy and Change inPublic Administration (Georgetown,2006), a book on the political theory of American publicadministration. One of the country’s leading experts on spacepolicy, he authored Faster, Better, Cheaper (Hopkins, 2001),a critical analysis of cost-cutting initiatives in the U.S. spaceprogram. An earlier study of NASA’s organizational culture,Inside NASA (Hopkins, 1993), won the 1994 Henry Adamsprize for best history of the federal government. He also wroteSpace and the American Imagination (Smithsonian, 1997) andcoedited Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership(University of Illinois, 1997).

McCurdy’s work appears in such scholarly journals as PublicAdministration Review and Space Policy. He is often consultedby the media on public policy issues and has appeared onnational news outlets, including PBS’s News Hour, NationalPublic Radio, and NBC Nightly News.

DANIEL R. MULLINS

PhD, Syracuse University, Public AdministrationDaniel Mullins’s research focuses on inter-governmental fiscal systems and budgetaryreform, the effects of tax and expenditurelimitations on state and local fiscal structure,the implications of demographic changes forstate and local revenues and expenditures,municipal budgeting practices, economicdevelopment strategies, and the spatial andeconomic structure of metropolitan areas.His work has appeared in a variety of aca-demic and professional publications, includingPublic Administration Review, Policy Sciences,Urban Affairs Quarterly, and publications of the AdvisoryCommission on Intergovernmental Relations, the World Bank,and the International City Management Association. Mullinshas served extensively, both domestically and abroad, in consult-ing and advisory capacities on issues of public sector budgetingand intergovernmental fiscal relations. He has worked onnumerous structural reform projects with the World Bankand USAID and is managing editor of the journal PublicBudgeting and Finance.

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BERYL RADIN, SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

PhD, University of California–Berkeley, City and Regional PlanningOne of the leading scholars in public management and policy,Beryl Radin’s expertise includes intergovernmental relations andfederalism, administrative reform, performance management,and public policy. Her book Challenging the PerformanceMovement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values(Georgetown, 2006) explores the unanticipated consequences

of the performance movement. Otherbooks includeThe Accountable Juggler:The Art of Leadership in a FederalAgency (CQ, 2002) and BeyondMachiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes ofAge (Georgetown, 2000). She has alsowritten on issues related to implement-ing the Government Performance andResults Act (GPRA) and the ProgramAssessment Rating Tool (PART), aswell as on policy analysis and intergov-ernmental relations.

Radin, an elected member of the National Academy of PublicAdministration, was managing editor of the Journal of PublicAdministration Research and Theory(2000–05) and president of the

Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Shealso served on the board of the Public Management ResearchAssociation. She was special advisor to the assistant secretary for management and budget at the U.S. Department of Healthand Human Services.

Among her many accolades, she received the ASPA 2002Donald Stone Award for Outstanding Academic and ResearchContributions to Intergovernmental Management. She servedas a senior Fulbright lecturer in India, a fellow at the AmericanSociety for Public Administration’s Center for Accountabilityand Performance, and an evaluator for Innovations in AmericanGovernment. Radin is the only American involved in planning an international conference on federalism in Delhi, India, inNovember 2007. In her honor, a national award given by thePublic Management Research Association bears her name.

DAVID H. ROSENBLOOM, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR

PhD, University of Chicago, Political Science; Honorary Doctor of Laws, Marietta CollegeA major contributor to the field of public administration,David Rosenbloom is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. Among his accolades, he holds theAPSA 2001 John Gaus Award for Exemplary Scholarship in theJoint Tradition of Political Science and Public Administration, the ASPA 1999 Dwight Waldo Award for OutstandingContributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public

Administration, the 1993 Charles H. Levine Award forExcellence in Public Administration, the 1992 ASPA/NASPAADistinguished Research Award. He has also received AU’sSchool of Public Affairs Outstanding Scholarship and ServiceAwards, and PhD Students’ Excellence in Teaching Award.

Rosenbloom’s Building a Legislative-Centered PublicAdministration: Congress and the Administrative State, 1946–1999(University of Alabama, 2000) received the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2001Louis Brownlow Book Award.His most recent books are Personnel Management in Government,6th ed., coauthored with Norma Riccucci, Katherine Naff, and Jay Shafritz (Taylor and Francis, 2007); Revisiting Waldo’s Administrative State: Constancy and Change in PublicAdministration, coedited with Howard McCurdy (Georgetown,2006); A Reasonable Public Servant, coauthored with Yong Lee(M. E. Sharpe, 2005); Public Administration: UnderstandingManagement, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector, 6th ed.,coauthored with Robert Kravchuk (McGraw-Hill, 2005); and Administrative Law for Public Managers (Westview, 2003). His research focuses on public administration and democratic constitutionalism.

Rosenbloom was editor in chief of Public AdministrationReview (1991–96), coeditor in chief of Policy Studies Journal(1985–90), and currently serves on the editorial boards of morethan a dozen public administration journals.

Two of Rosenbloom’s students received the NASPAA AnnualBest Doctoral Dissertation Award and several have become majorcontributors to the field of public administration. A frequent lecturer at universities and public service organizations in theUnited States and abroad, he was guest professor in China atRenmin (People’s) University’s School of Public Administration,Beijing (2005). Rosenbloom’s public service includes anappointment in 1992 to the Clinton-Gore presidential transitionteam at the Office of Personnel Management.





BERNARD H. ROSS, PROFESSOR EMERITUS

PhD, New York University, GovernmentBernard Ross’s teaching and research interests include publicpolicy and management. With experience in both the publicand private sectors, he often consults for government andindustry. His most recent published works include UrbanPolitics: Power in Metropolitan America, 7th ed. (Wadsworth,2006), coauthored with Myron Levine; and How WashingtonWorks: The Executive’s Guide to Government, 3d ed. (ThomasHorton, 1996), coauthored with Neil Kerwin and LeeFritschler. He also publishes in such journals as Public Risk,Management Review, and the Urban Interest. Ross is a memberof the American Society for Public Administration and theNational Academy of Public Administration. He received the1977 School of Public Affairs Award for Outstanding Teaching.

BRADLEY R. SCHILLER

PhD, Harvard University, EconomicsIn addition to teaching economic theory to students andpractitioners in public policy, Bradley Schiller also applieseconomics in practice. As a consultant to governments andmajor corporations, he has designed, evaluated, and operatednumerous employment, training, and welfare programs. Hecontinues his activities in these areas, as well as in forensiceconomics. Schiller also lectures extensively on the costs ofterrorism, Social Security reform, and the ever-changing federalbudget outlook. His many editorials have appeared in theWall Street Journal, theWashington Post, the New York Times,and other papers, and he has published numerous articles inprofessional journals. Schiller’s Economics of Poverty andDiscrimination, 9th ed. (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004) hasremained the standard text for more than 20 years. HisEconomy Today, 10th ed. (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006) is oneof the world’s most widely used economics texts.

ROBERT TOBIAS

JD, George Washington University; Director, Public SectorExecutive Education; Director, Institute for Study of PublicPolicy Implementation As director of public sector executive education, RobertTobias heads the Key Executive Leadership master’s programand teaches courses in leadership, facilitation and team devel-opment, conflict management, and labor relations manage-ment. President Bill Clinton nominated and the Senateconfirmed Tobias for a five-year term as a member of the IRSOversight Board. He was selected by Thomas Ridge (formersecretary of the DHS) and Kay Coles James (former directorof OPM) to serve on the Human Resource ManagementSystem Senior Review Advisory Committee. In addition,Comptroller General David Walker appointed Tobias to theCommercial Activities Panel, which submitted its recommen-dations to Congress in May 2002.

In conjunction with the Partnership for Public Service, hepresents the Best Places to Work in the Federal Governmentawards. Tobias writes frequently about current federal-sectorpublic policy implementation issues for Federal Times,Government Employees Relations Report, and GovernmentExecutive magazine. He is a member of the NationalAcademy of Public Administration. Tobias holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

DONALD G. ZAUDERER, PROFESSOR EMERITUS

PhD, Indiana University; Management, Public Policy, EconomicsDonald Zauderer is president of Zauderer and Associates, afirm that provides training and consulting services to public,private, and not-for-profit organizations. He formerly servedas a senior advisor at the Brookings Institution and as directorof the Key Executive Leadership program. Zauderer’s areas ofspecialization include leadership development, executivecoaching, ethics awareness, team building, organization diagnosis and change, and strategic planning. He has workedwith such diverse organizations as the National Gallery ofArt, the GAO, the General Services Administration, theNational Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the Smith FarmCenter for the Healing Arts, and the departments of trans-portation, defense, and health and human services. He alsoserves as a features editor for the Public Manager and is amember of the D.C. Bar Ethics Committee. Some of his publications—“Mastering the Art of Public Leadership”(1993), “The Benefit of Dialogue” (2001), “Winning withIntegrity” (1994), and “Incivility and the Management ofHuman Capital” (2003)—have focused on the importance of value-based leadership.



GRADUATE ADMISSION

Admission decisions are made by the School ofPublic Affairs. To be considered, you should:

• possess an accredited bachelor’s degree,with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in the last 60 hours of coursework or the last 90 quarter hours

• submit two letters of recommendation(three for a PhD application) from instruc-tors or employers about your suitability forgraduate study in public affairs

• write an essay (personal statement) describingyour career interests

• submit results of the Test of English as aForeign Language (TOEFL) or InternationalEnglish Language Testing System (IELTS),if your first language is not English (unlessyou hold a degree from an accreditedAmerican or British university or college)

• submit results of the Graduate RecordExamination (GRE) to institution code5773. (Applicants to the executive degree programs—the Key Executive LeadershipMPA and the MS in organization development—do not need to submit GRE scores. Applicants with eight years of work experience who apply to the traditional MPP and the MPA programsmay request a waiver.)

To receive full consideration for merit-basedaid, the deadline for submitting applicationsfor fall admission is February 1.

Applications for fall admission to the traditionalmaster’s programs are accepted through June 1.The application deadline for spring admissionis November 1. PhD applications are acceptedfor fall admission only. You should plan to takethe GRE, TOEFL, or IELTS no later thanDecember to ensure that a complete applica-tion is on file prior to the deadline.

To Apply

The preferred way to apply for admission isvia the Web—it’s easy, fast, and secure: Go to www.spa.american.edu. Pull down theAdmissions toolbar and proceed from there.

The $55 application fee may be submittedonline or by mail (make checks payable toAmerican University) to the address below.Recommendations may also be submitted electronically or on hard copy to the same address.

For complete instructions on the applicationprocess, please visit our Web site or reviewthe enclosed application. If you have questionsregarding admission, please contact SPA’sGraduate Admissions Office.

Contact information:Graduate Admissions OfficeSchool of Public AffairsAmerican University4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20016-8022Phone: 202-885-6230Fax: 202-885-1435 E-mail: [email protected]: www.spa.american.edu

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course work at SPA laid a strong

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networking opportunities were

outstanding—and now, as an

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can really make a difference.”

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Merit-Based Financial Assistance

Merit-based fellowships, assistantships, andgraduate study grants are available for select full-time master’s and doctoral students. Theseawards include:

• fellowships—stipend plus tuition remission

• assistantships—stipend plus tuition remissionand learning component

• graduate study grants—tuition remission

• master’s fellowships—fellowship plus an addi-tional stipend for outstanding new master’sdegree students

• doctoral dissertation fellowships—stipendplus tuition remission for doctoral candidatesworking full-time on their dissertations

• special opportunity awards—assistantshipsand graduate study awards for American-bornminority students

• Hall of Nations scholarships—tuition remis-sion for international students who do nothave permanent resident status or U.S. citizenship

• Massey Foundation awards—scholarship assistance for Canadian citizens

• United Methodist graduate scholarships—assistance for members of the church

Eligibility checklist for merit awards

• full-time master’s or doctoral student (9 credit hours or more per semester)

• GRE scores submitted• cumulative GPA of 3.0

Need-Based Financial Assistance

Need-based assistance is available in the form ofcommercially or federally sponsored loans andcooperative education programs. Both part-timeand full-time students may apply.

Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents areeligible for federal need-based aid. To apply,complete the Free Application for FederalStudent Aid (FAFSA) and submit it to the pro-cessing center by March 1 or as soon as possiblethereafter. This application form is availablethrough the financial aid office at AU and mostother universities. You can also download theform and file it online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.

Our financial aid office also maintains a com-prehensive list of private loans and scholarships.For additional information on graduate financialaid, please visit www.american.edu/finaid.

Employment

Graduate students interested in employmentshould contact American University’s CareerCenter at 202-885-1800 or visit www.american.edu/careercenter.

International students on an F-1 or J-1 visa may work up to 20 hours a week on campuswhile classes are in session, with permission of the international student advisor. Students on all other types of visas should contactInternational Student Services at 202-885-3350.This office also provides information onemployment options.

Tuition and Fees for 2008–2010

Tuition (per credit hour) $1111Admissions (application fee) $ 55

Other fees may apply. For a schedule, contactStudent Accounts at 202-885-3541.

Note: Tuition and fees are subject to change without prior notice.

From left: William M. LeoGrande,dean, School of Public Affairs; William Gimson III, COO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Julie Gerberding, director, Centers forDisease Control and Prevention; andDavid M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

Since 1978, American University and itsSchool of Public Affairs have granted this prestigious award to more than 50federal career executives in recognitionof their exceptional public service anddedication to the work and goals of government. Each year a distinguishedpanel selects two individuals for theirdemonstrated capabilities in the areas ofleadership and commitment to effectivecontinuity of government. The annualaward ceremony takes place in the fallon the campus of American University.

ROGER W. JONESAward for Executive Leadership



By air

Washington’s Reagan NationalAirport, the airport most convenientto AU, is approximately 25 minutesfrom campus during rush hour bycab. Metrorail (subway) trains (yellow and blue lines) run dailyfrom Reagan National Airport into downtown Washington. DullesInternational Airport is about 45 minutes from campus, andBaltimore/Washington InternationalAirport about one hour.

All three airports offer shuttle serviceto major hotels and meeting pointsin downtown Washington. Shuttleservice costs between $20 and $35 one way, depending on point of origin.

By train or subway

Amtrak offers regular service toWashington’s Union Station. Metro (subway) trains run from 5 a.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. week-ends, until midnight Sundaythrough Thursday and 3 a.m.Friday and Saturday.

The closest Metro stop to AmericanUniversity is Tenleytown–AU onthe red line. AU provides free shuttle service from the Tenleytown–AU Metro stop to campus. Forschedule information, contact AU’sShuttle Transit Service office at202-885-3302.

By car

From northeast of Washington(New York, Philadelphia,Baltimore)Follow I-95 south to I-495 (CapitalBeltway). Take I-495 west towardSilver Spring. (See From I-495)

From northwest of Washington(western Pennsylvania, westernMaryland)Follow I-270 south. Where I-270divides, bear right toward northernVirginia and Washington. Merge with I-495 (Capital Beltway). (See From I-495)

From south or west of Washington(northern Virginia, Norfolk,Richmond, Charlottesville)Follow I-95 north or I-66 east to I-495 (Capital Beltway). Take I-495 north toward Silver Spring.(See From I-495)

From I-495 (Capital Beltway)Take exit 39 and follow signs forRiver Road (Maryland Route 190)east toward Washington. Continueeast on River Road to the fifth traf-fic light. Turn right on GoldsboroRoad (Maryland Route 614). Atthe first traffic light, turn left onMassachusetts Avenue (MarylandRoute 396). Continue on

Massachusetts Avenue through thefirst traffic circle (WestmorelandCircle). Drive one more mile to the next traffic circle (Ward Circle).Take the first right off Ward Circleonto Nebraska Avenue. The campusis on your right.

Parking

Parking is by guest permit, meters(in some locations), or purchasedparking pass (required 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday through Friday).After 5 p.m. and on weekends,parking is free in the Sports Centergarage, in the Nebraska Avenuelot, and at all metered and non-metered parking spaces on campus.

Metered parking is free to visitorswith physical disabilities who display state-issued tags or permits allowingthem parking priority. Handicapped-accessible parking is also available inevery lot on campus.

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