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Public Service Training in Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

O. Glenn Stahl
O. Glenn Stahl
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Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tenn
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Political scientists in this country have for many years been concerned with the problem of preparing young persons for public service careers. Considerable thought and discussion were devoted to the subject at numerous conferences and conventions in years before the entry of the United States into the World War, and some progress was made toward adapting university curricula to such principles as were evolved. The revival of a fresh interest in the matter evidently dates from around 1930, one of the major signs having been the Conference on University Training for the National Service held at the University of Minnesota in 1931. Since that time, the problem has received constantly increasing attention at meetings of the American Political Science Association, the Civil Service Assembly, the National Municipal League, the National League of Women Voters, and special groups such as that sponsored at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935 by the Public Administration Clearing House.

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Public Administration
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American Political Science Review , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , October 1937 , pp. 870 - 878
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1937

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References

1 Ridley, Clarence E. and Moore, Lyman S., “Training for the Public Service,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (January, 1937), Vol. 189, p. 129CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See White, Leonard D., Government Career Service (University of Chicago Press, 1935)Google Scholar, in which a federal administrative corps is proposed; for a different point of view, note Meriam, Lewis, Public Service and Special Training (University of Chicago Press, 1936)Google Scholar.

3 Training Career Public Servants for the City of New York (New York University, 1936)Google Scholar, Chap. 5.

4 “A Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard University: Committee Recommendations,” in this Review, Vol. 31, p. 318 (Apr., 1937)Google Scholar.

5 Idem., p. 317.

6 An example in which the far-flung character of a public agency's work makes in-service training more clearly the primary responsibility of the agency itself, rather than of general educational institutions, is the United States customs service. It is significant that an anonymous customs employee, working on the Canadian border, has publicly protested against the lack of training in his establishment, which practically closes all opportunity for advancement to himself and his colleagues. “Your Civil—and Uncivil—Servants,” Harper's Magazine, Vol. 174, p. 505 (Apr., 1937)Google Scholar.

7 Christian Science Monitor, May 1, 1937.

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