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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

If looking for a degree in public administration , there can be more to it than just program rankings and salary questions. Because there is no one path to a career in public administration as there is with doctors or lawyers, what to do with your degree can be confusing. Public Administration Consultant.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ). From the article: The U.S.

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Visions of Recovery: Reimagining Long-Term Care

First State Insights

Katelyn Andrews, Director of Public Policy at LiveOn NY, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about public policy priorities for aging and older adults and her vision for the future of long-term care.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc.

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Solutions for the Talent Gap in Finance Offices

Barrett & Greene

The reasons for this are many, but here are a few of the outstanding ones: The lack of consistent finance-focused public administration, governmental accounting, and governmental auditing instruction at institutions of higher education. As introduced, high schools could be a source at least to get students interested in public service.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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Housing Forward Virginia

First State Insights

Jonathan Knopf, Executive Director for Programs at Housing Forward Virginia, speaks with Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about developing and leading affordable housing efforts in Virginia.

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