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FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to Volume 15, Number 3, of the Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE). This issue contains Marvin Mandell’s presidential address, delivered at the October 2008 conference of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), as well as the first JPAE Symposium edited by the team at Arizona State University. I am very pleased that the first symposium under our aegis is a set of articles from the Teaching Public Administration Conference (TPAC), because TPAC is a conference directly relevant to JPAE, and one that I have always valued. Marvin Mandell’s presidential address, concentrating as it does on NASPAA’s standards-revision process, speaks directly to the two articles at the beginning of Volume 15, Number 2 (Henry, et al., 2009 and Raffel, 2009). Mandell’s address helps keep these issues on our collective front burner and prods us to continue considering and discussing them. As did Henry, Goodsell, Lynn, Stivers, and Wamsley (2009), Mandell points out the proliferation of MPA-like degrees. He argues that this presents both challenges and opportunities for our community, and he concentrates attention on which public values, other than economic efficiency, we teach our students. His perspective is particularly relevant to those who emphasize public policy analysis and program evaluation. The TPAC Symposium section includes seven articles that originally were presented at the 2008 TPAC, held May 31- June 1 in Richmond, Virginia. These articles range across a wide variety of topics, giving readers a taste of the many areas covered at TPAC. We are pleased to have Margaret Stout, of West Virginia University, to introduce the TPAC Symposium. She was one of the 2008 conference organizers, and also helped put together the TPAC symposium. Since I began my career as a professor, I have been lucky enough to attend several TPACs, and I have always found them inspirational and refreshing. To spend several days thinking and talking about teaching is a valuable pleasure that is all too rare for most of us, and I always find interesting ideas at TPAC. In fact, I attended the 2008 conference, and I participated in Diane Kimoto’s session on public-service videos (Kimoto, Frasco, Mulder, & Juta, 2009). It inspired me to try a similar exercise in my PAF 505 Public Policy Analysis class during the fall semester of 2008. Though the students found the experience rather frightening, they also found it exhilarating, and most teams were able to produce good videos. It forced them to think about policy communication in a different way—and it forced me to think about teaching policy communication in a different way. I will leave Professor Stout to introduce the other articles in the TPAC Symposium. I hope that you, as did I, will find some new ways to approach teaching in JPAE’s TPAC Symposium. In September of 2009, watch for the Call for Papers for TPAC 2010. Next year’s TPAC will by held in Grand Rapids Michigan, hosted by Grand Valley State University. — Heather E. Campbell, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief Journal of Public Affairs Education iii
EDITOR’S NOTE REFERENCES Henry, N., Goodsell, C.T., Lynn, L.E., Jr., Stivers, C., & Wamsley, G. L. (2009). Understanding excellence in public administration: The report of the task force on educating for excellence in the Master of Public Administration degree of the American Society for Public Administration. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 15(2), 117-133. Kimoto, D.M., Frasco, J., Mulder, L., & Juta, S. (2009). Operation PSA: The action learning of curiosity and creativity. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 15(3), 361-382. Raffel, J.A. (2009). Looking forward: A response to the ASPA task force report on educating for excellence in the MPA. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 15(2), 135-144. iv Journal of Public Affairs Education
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