Word: mpp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that with Tarver and Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, directing the MPA program, the program should have sufficient resources to keep pace with the K-School's Master of Public Policy program. Over the past decade it had not been expanding as rapidly as the MPP, he added...
...Ebert and Dunlop talked over the idea of a public policy curriculum with Price and they began to push for the formation of the MPP program and joint degrees with the Law and Medical Schools. They pushed hard enough and the 18 members of the first MPP class entered the Kennedy School in the fall of 1969. "It was not until the public policy degree was created that we began to develop courses that were listed as the School's courses," says Price...
...view of one person. The question is "what would you do?"...Most students are generally satisfied with the classes. "I came here to get a good grounding in formal analytic techniques like economics, operations research, statistics...I'm geting that so I'm very happy," says Michael Gravitz, a MPP-JD student...
...case method of instruction seems to please most students. The cases give one a "vicarious experience...a sense of confidence, of having gone through it before," and a methodology, a way of looking at a problem, claims Dan Brinza, a MPP-JD student...
However, Elaine Lubin, also a MPP-JD student, feels differently about the case method. "I didn't feel that I came out of the case method with anything other than knowledge of current American issues," she says. She thinks the case method has little application to real situations. "To the extent that it applies, it's not very profound and most of the time it doesn't apply...I felt like I was in Kindergarden...