#40091 RECORDS OF THE MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM in the University Archives and Records Service University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wilson Library, CB# 3926 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514-8890 November 1992 The history of the graduate program in public administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can be traced to the early 1930s. A School of Public Administration was formed in June 1932 under the direction of Professor Walter C. Jackson, who was succeeded in 1934 by Howard W. Odum. The School's mission was defined vaguely as providing training for government service, and in 1936 failure to obtain additional foundation support coupled with administrative problems led to its closure. In the 1940s and early 1950s, the North Carolina City and County Managers Association petitioned the University to provide a more formal public service training program. Thus, in the fall of 1951, the Department of Political Science was authorized to offer a program in public administration that included classroom instruction and internship training leading to a Master of Arts degree in political science with a certificate of professional proficiency in public administration. Lack of departmental resources and the inability to offer the Master of Public Administration degree hampered full implementation of the program's training aspect. Meanwhile, the Department of Political Science, the Institute of Government, and the North Carolina City and County Managers Association continued to press the need for a professional training program leading to the MPA degree. In the fall of 1965, the Department of Political Science requested approval from the Administrative Board of the Graduate School for a two-year public administration program. Approval was granted and the Master of Public Administration Program was inaugurated in the fall of 1966. The Program is supervised by, and responsible to, the chairman of the Department of Political Science. A student-faculty MPA Policy Committee, appointed by the Political Science chairman and the Director of the Institute of Government advises the Program's Director on general administrative and curriculum matters. Policy decisions on program requirements are subject to the approval of the Political Science faculty and the Administrative Board of the Graduate School. The curriculum includes three major components: (1) first year on-campus classroom instruction, (2) second year work experience/internship, and (3) a research paper and oral defense before a review committee. Funding for the MPA program comes from state appropriation via the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government. These funds are supplemented, especially in the area of student aid, by foundation support and federal aid. The R.J. Reynolds Company, the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, the Burlington Foundation, the P.H. Hanes Foundation, the North Carolina Fund, the North Carolina City and County Managers Association, and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration are agencies in the private sector that have supplied funding. On the federal level, the Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare and Housing and Urban Development have made grants directly or indirectly to the program. Funding from these has supported faculty and curriculum development as well as aid to MPA students. Directors of the Master of Public Administration Program have been: S. Kenneth Howard 1966-1973 Deil S. Wright 1973-1980 Gordon P. Whitaker 1980-1993 Michael Munger 1993-1995 Stephen Allred 1995- The archival records of the MPA program consist of the Director's files and date largely from 1970. An inventory of these records is provided on the following page. For further information on the Master of Public Administration Program, consult the Records of the Office of Provost and the Records of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. The Records of the Master of Public Administration Program are arranged as follows: Box 1: Alumni Association: Bylaws, 1976 Membership Rosters, 1977 Newsletters, 1974-1977 Reunions, 1971; 1974; 1976; 1977; 1978 Annual and Special Reports: Annual Reports, 1971; 1973 Eight Years of Progress: Report on the MPA Program, 1966-1974 Ten Years of Progress: Report on the MPA Program, 1966-1976 Budget and Financial Information: Change Budget Request, 1974 (See also Program Grants and Grant-Funded Activities below) Curriculum and Degree Requirements: Colloquia, 1975-1978 Courses: Political Science 212: Program Evaluation and Quantitative Analysis Political Science 213: Public Policy Formation Political Science 216: Administrative Research and Statistics Political Science 289: Administrative Research Questions Political Science 341: Seminar in Organizational Leadership Internships: Placement, 1973-1977 Requirement for, 1977 Seminars, 1970-1978 (See also Program Grants and Grant-Funded Activities, below) Research Paper, Requirement for, 1972 Policy Committee, 1971-1978 Professional Organizations (see below at end of Box 1) Program Review Committee, 1971; 1974-1975 Students: List of, 1972-1979 (see also Alumni Association above) News Releases, 1976-1977 (includes announcements of new students, financial awards, intern placements; arranged alphabetical by student's name) Orientation Program for New Students, 1971-1978 Recruitment of New Students, 1975-1976 Student Aid (see Program Grants and Grant-Funded Activities, below) Professional Organizations: American Society for Public Administration, Southeastern Region, Conventions, 1975; 1977 Conference of Minority Public Administrators, Convention, 1976 National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration: General (dues, conventions), 1971-1977 MPA Program Evaluations: Standards, 1977 UNC-CH Program Evaluation Report, 1977 Box 2: Program Grants and Grant-Funded Activities: (NOTE: These files relate to outside agency funding for the MPA program, and concern fellowships, internships and scholarships for MPA students. Arrangement is alphabetical by name of the granting agency.) Burlington Industries Foundation Grant, 1966 Carnegie Corporation Request for Funding, 1967 Civil Rights, U.S. Office of: Personnel Transfer Agreement, 1975-1977 Civil Service Commission, U.S.: Presidential Management Internship Program, 1977-1978 Health, Education, and Welfare, U.S. Dept. of: Education for the Public Service Fellowships (Title IX) Program, 1974-1978 Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Dept. of: Durham Observatory Program: General, 1976-1977 Reports: Dajani, Vesilin and Hartman, Measuring the Effectiveness of Solid Waste Collection (March 1976) Cook and Fischer, Citizen Cooperation with the Criminal Justice System (May 1976) Salamon, The Substandard Rental Housing Market in Durham: Toward an Inner-City Housing Policy (July 1976) Magat, A Public Utility Rate Case Intervention Strategy for the City of Durham, North Carolina (September 1976) Peterson, An Analysis of the Employment and Personnel Practices of Durham City Government (December 1976) Lipscomb and Baines, Effective Communication: The City, the Citizens, the Media (December 1976) Slade, The Urban Observatory: Focus-- Durham,N.C. (M.A. thesis, UNC-CH, 1978) Work-Study Program, 1971-1978 National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration: (NOTE: These files relate to the administration of federal grant funds by NASPAA.) Health Care Services Fellowship Program, 1972-1978 Minority Fellows Program, 1971-1978 Urban Administration Fellows Program, 1970-1977 Urban Management Education Program, 1976 National Endowment for the Arts Internship Program, 1974-1975 North Carolina City and County Managers' Association Fellows Program, 1967-1971 North Carolina Fund Assistantship Program, 1966-1967 P.H. Hanes Foundation Fellowship Program, 1966-1968 Wachovia Bank and Trust Company Fellowship Program, 1966