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This year the school’s two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) program received 1,696 applications, up 34 percent from 1,269 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...
...MPP student Benjamin M. Polk said he thought the increase was important for the Kennedy School, “This is an unequivocally positive sign that the Kennedy School has made itself an unbelievably important institution,” he said...
More remarkable is Tvert's counterpart in Idaho, Ryan Davidson of Boise. Davidson operated without any MPP money after failing to get measures on the ballot in 2004 in a number of Idaho cities. This past year, he got it on Hailey's ballot after winning a ruling in federal district court that overturned Hailey's law preventing nonresidents from circulating petitions. "This was the least funded campaign in history," he says. "I spent maybe 20 bucks. I got the signatures on the petitions on my own dime. I spread the word through e-mail and phone calls and posting...
...writer is an MPP candidate at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Juan Carlos Navarro MPP...