It has been 75 years since the Kennedy School was founded. The school was built around the idea that public service could be studied, taught, and lived – an idea to which generations of faculty, students, and staff have dedicated themselves. Here are some of their stories, a look at the school now, and what it might be in the future.
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TODAY:HKS AT 75
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Bob Matteson MPA 1941 was among the School’s first class of MPAs. » more
Research Ideas
Moving Day, 1978 The John F. Kennedy Forum takes shape.
“The idea of a profession of public administration wasn’t very old in, say 1938 or 1939, so we had sort of a pioneering sense that we were on an early undertaking to professionalize the public service.”
Bob Matteson MPA 1941
