What We Have Learned from the NASPAA Standards Review Process

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Editor’s Note:

Here, JPAE is pleased to provide the text of the presidential address delivered on October 16, 2009, at last year’s Annual Conference of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), in Crystal City, Virginia. For publication as an article, the text of this speech was edited.

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Jeffrey A. Raffel

Jeffrey A. Raffel is the Charles P. Messick Professor of Public Administration and immediate past Director of the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. He is the lead editor of the book Public Sector Leadership: International Challenges and Perspectives, published by Edward Elgar Press in 2009. Dr. Raffel, who chaired COPRA for two years and chaired the NASPAA Standards 2009 Steering Committee, now serves as the President of NASPAA.