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...applications last year. The two-year Master in Public Administration in International Development, the school’s newest program, saw a 7 percent increase in applications, while applications to the two-year Master in Public Administration program rose only slightly. Applications to the one-year Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program are due Friday, and Joseph J. McCarthy, the director of degree programs, said he expects a good turnout in that program as well...
...armed with spreadsheets, formulas, and a degree from Harvard in applied mathematics and computer science, it was his job to analyze what had already happened in order to figure out what was to come.Then, in 2004, everything changed when Swanay was laid off for the second time in his career as a result of a corporate merger. Contemplating his next move, he felt a sense of disillusionment with the path he had chosen.“I had always gotten stellar performance reviews,” Swanay says. “I still had my parents’ generation?...
...These men and women may seem like inspiration for a Harvard graduate to pass over Wall Street or med school for a cozy cubicle at the Pentagon. But a closer look at the career paths of these appointees points motivated students in a different direction. Many of Obama’s Harvard picks moved into their elite roles laterally, from top positions in related fields, rather than through the government apparatus itself...
...stands, many government head honchos are there by way of other fields, such as academia, business, or law. Sunstein, the new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, for instance, spent 90 percent of his professional career at the University of Chicago and Harvard Law Schools. The new associate attorney general, law school grad Thomas J. Perelli, started out in top D.C. law firm Jenner & Block...
...Such external appointments are daily business in the public sector. They are not inherently bad—indeed, few would doubt that Sunstein, the most frequently cited legal scholar in America, is not qualified for his post. However, these indirect career paths do discourage bright, ambitious students from signing on for a career in public service...