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However, officials reported a decline in acceptances to the mid-career Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, down to 32 from last year...
...percentage of minority and foreign students coming to the K-School increased for the MPA program but decreased in the MPP program. Nearly half of the Black students accepted to the K-School come from a special minority program which trains college students who express an interest in public policy, then pays them tuition and a stipend...
Miller, who will receive a master's degree in public administration next month, will work under Assistant Dean and Director of the MPA program Mary Jane England to recruit students to the program, a nine-month course of study for professionals working in public policy areas...
...reason we don't consult the Fellows says Nancy S. Pyle associate director of the MPA program and director of the Mason Fellows program, is because they would never agree on one country. Depending on their own countries and backgrounds they would always want to go to a different choice...
However, most feel the method and quality of teaching is strong and appreciate the flexibility of the MPA program. Besides taking K-School courses, the Masons can arrange to study at MIT's Sloan School, Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy or any of the Harvard Graduate Schools as well as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Center for African Studies at Boston University Such flexibility is necessary, some say, because the K-School does not have many of the courses they had wanted to study. "The flexibility of the program allows you to tailor...