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...School offers two main programs to transform prom organizers into government agency organizers and policy makers: the ten-year-old Master of Public Policy Program (MPP) for those with at least five years of experience in the public sector--the first degree offered by the School when it was founded...
...turning point in the development of the School was the formation of the MPP program. The Program was conceived in 1968, by Bok, then dean of the Law School, Robert H Ebert, Walker Professor of Medicine and then dean of the Medical School and John T. Dunlop, University Professor and then dean of the faculty. The deans "recognized that many students in law and medicine wanted to work in public and governmental areas, not go into private practice," says Price. "Neither in the Law or Medical School was it possible to include in the curriculum the sort of things they...
...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...
...conscious efforts to temper its academic sophistication (which could easily lead to elitism and isolation) by going beyond the abstracts of political science and economics to emphasize the pragmatic approach. The case-study method, pioneered by the Business School, is used as a means of stimulating decision-making, and MPP students are required to participate in a short work-shop or cooperative experience with a government agency. The school's active faculty includes some of the luminaries of the Cambridge-Washington shuttle: Allison, John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, and Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government. Adjunct lecturers, including Massachusetts...
...racist and sexist" cabal of private advisers like the best and the brightest of the early '60s. The school has a flexible admissions policy, he says, bringing together academics, city pols and bureaucrats. The number of women enrolled in this year's 130 member entering class for the MPP program increased from...