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Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs#Research centers

{{Short description|Public policy school of Syracuse University}}

{{Infobox university

| name = The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

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| logo = File:Syracuse Maxwell (full rgb).svg

| logo_alt = Logo for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University

| established = {{start date and age|1924}}

| type = Private graduate school for public administration and international relations

| dean = David Van Slyke

| city = Syracuse

| state = New York

| country = United States

| enrollment = 3000

| academic_staff = 200

| parent = Syracuse University

| accreditation = APSIA, NASPAA

| academic_affiliations = TPC

| website = {{URL|https://maxwell.syr.edu}}

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The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Maxwell School) is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 13 affiliated research centers and offers coursework in the fields of public administration, international relations, foreign policy, political Science, science and technology policy, social sciences, and economics through its undergraduate (BA) degrees, graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Arts (MA), and PhD degrees.

The school has been recognized as one of the world's best graduate schools of public affairs.{{cite news |last1=Ruddy |first1=Cort |title=Maxwell Receives Copy of Floor Remarks Commemorating the School’s Centennial |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2024/12/02/maxwell-receives-copy-of-floor-remarks-commemorating-the-schools-centennial/ |access-date=2 December 2024 |work=Syracuse University News |date=2 December 2024}} Chuck Schumer, {{USCongRec|2024|S6015|date=September 12, 2024}}{{cite report |title=International Affairs Grad School Guide |url=https://www.fpa.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/International%20Affairs%20Grad%20School%20Guide%20Fall%202012%20Tool%20Book.pdf |date=Fall 2012 |page=20 |publisher=Foreign Policy Association}} It awards the oldest public administration degree in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/deans/default.asp|title=About Maxwell|website=The Maxwell School of Syracuse University|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630231710/http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/deans/default.asp|archive-date=30 June 2016|url-status=live}}

History

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The precursor to the Maxwell School was the Training School for Public Service, founded by New York City’s Bureau of Municipal Research, which was transferred to Syracuse University in 1924.{{Cite web |date=2014-11-13 |title=The Training School for Public Service {{!}} "An Adventure in Democracy" |url=https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ipaprocessing/2014/11/the-training-school-of-public-service/ |access-date=2024-01-12 |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last1=May |author-link=Rachel May |first1=Rachel |title=NY Senate Resolution 2023-J1717 |url=https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/J1717 |publisher=New York State Senate |access-date=2 December 2024 |date=October 3, 2024 |language=en}} The school was initially a vehicle for municipal reform, its students serving as a pool of researchers tasked with uncovering examples of the corruption of Tammany Hall.{{Cite book |last=Caro |first=Robert A. |title=The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York |date=1975 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-394-72024-1 |series=Vintage books |location=New York}}

The school gained its name after George Holmes Maxwell, a Boston-based patent attorney and Syracuse alumnus. In 1924, Maxwell donated $500,000 to the university to establish a school which would aim "to cull from every source those principles, facts, and elements which, combined, make up our rights and duties and our value and distinctiveness as United States citizens."

{{cite news |title=SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY TO GET $500,000 GIFT; George W. Maxwell of Boston Pledges Building for Citizenship School He Founded. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/10/16/archives/syracuse-university-to-get-500000-gift-george-w-maxwell-of-boston.html |access-date=30 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |page=23 |agency=AP |date=16 October 1930 |location=Boston, MA}} {{subscription required}}{{cite web |title=Maxwell House History |url=https://www.westernjustice.org/maxwell-house-history |publisher=Western Justice Center |access-date=1 February 2022}} Maxwell's initial interest was in training all undergraduates for their roles as informed citizens in the American democracy; University officials convinced him the school should also provide professional training for future government officials and other public servants.{{cite web |title=Maxwell History: The Founding and Growth of the Maxwell School |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/deans/Maxwell_History/ |website=Syracuse University |access-date=19 March 2021}}

The Maxwell School was dedicated on October 3, 1924, and was the first program to offer a graduate professional degree in public administration. That Master of Public Administration program is the oldest continuously operating, university-based MPA in the United States.

In 1937, the school took its full name and moved into Maxwell Hall, a purpose-built building on the west end of Syracuse University's main campus. The hall was dedicated by president Herbert Hoover on November 12, 1937.{{cite magazine |last1=Rodgers |first1=Jeffrey Pepper |title=The More Things Change |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article/the-more-things-change-add |access-date=2 December 2024 |magazine=Maxwell Perspective |date=July 1, 2014 |language=en}} In that year, Syracuse University's graduate programs and undergraduate instruction in the social sciences were moved into Maxwell, giving the school the unusual hybrid structure that remains today.{{cite web |title=Maxwell History: The Founding and Growth of the Maxwell School |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/deans/Maxwell_History/ |website=Syracuse University |access-date=19 March 2021}}

In 1968, Maxwell professor Dwight Waldo presided over the Minnowbrook I conference, which established the foundations for New Public Administration.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wHJgMggPkMC |title=Democracy and Public Administration|first=Richard C.|last=Box|date=19 February 2018|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=9780765618153|access-date=19 February 2018|via=Google Books}} Subsequent Minnowbrook II and III conferences were held in 1988 and 2008 at the eponymous Blue Mountain Lake retreat.{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7440/is_200903/ai_n39229455/|title=FindArticles.com - CBSi|website=findarticles.com|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803143222/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7440/is_200903/ai_n39229455/|archive-date=3 August 2010|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Minnowbrook Conference Center |url=https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives/buildings/minnowbrook-conference-center/ |website=Special Collections Research Center |publisher=Syracuse University Libraries |access-date=2 December 2024 |language=en}}

The school's rapid growth necessitated the 1990 "Campaign for Maxwell", which raised capital to fund a new building to accommodate the expansion. The Holden Observatory, built in 1887, was moved to create space for a new 5-story building.{{cite news |title=Campus Life: Syracuse; 1887 Observatory, All 375 Tons of It, Moves to New Site |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/30/nyregion/campus-life-syracuse-1887-observatory-all-375-tons-of-it-moves-to-new-site.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=31 March 2022 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 June 1991 |at=Section 1; p. 32}} The result of the campaign was the Bohlin Cywinski Jackson-designed Eggers Hall, which opened in 1994.{{cite web|url=http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/13.html|title=Eggers Hall / Maxwell Expansion|access-date=19 February 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314124518/http://www.bcj.com/public/projects/project/13.html|archive-date=14 March 2011}} Eggers Hall adjoins Maxwell Hall at the corner, together forming an L-shaped complex that houses the present-day Maxwell School.

In 2013, the Maxwell School and the Center for Strategic and International Studies entered into a collaborative agreement that included headquartering all Maxwell operations at CSIS.{{Cite news |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/stories/Maxwell_School_of_Syracuse_University_and_Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies_announce_major_collaboration-154618815910/ |title=Maxwell School of Syracuse University and Center for Strategic and International Studies announce major collaboration|date=2013-11-06 |website=The Maxwell School |language=en|access-date=2020-02-11}}

Academics

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The school hosts or co-hosts 15 research centers or institutes, encouraging interdisciplinary study and conversation within such broad rubrics as global affairs, domestic policy, conflict and collaboration, environmental studies, aging, public wellness, citizenship, and national security and counterterrorism.{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/about |website=Maxwell School |access-date=31 March 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/centers-institutes-and-initiatives/ |website=The Maxwell School of Syracuse University |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en |date=8 March 2019}}

  • Autonomous Systems Policy Institute
  • Campbell Public Affairs Institute
  • Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS)
  • Center for Environmental Policy and Administration
  • Center for Policy Research: The CPR, established in 1994, houses the Metropolitan Studies, Aging Studies programs, the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, and the Upstate Health Research Network.{{cite web |title=Center for Policy Research |url=https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/ |website=surface.syr.edu |access-date=7 September 2021}}
  • Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry
  • Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media: Co-sponsored with Syracuse Law and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
  • Maxwell X Lab: Started in 2017, the "X Lab" bridges the gap between university research and the public and non-profit sectors. The research leverages behavioral science and randomized controlled trials to build evidence for what works.{{cite web |title=Maxwell X Lab |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/xlab/ |website=The Maxwell School of Syracuse University |access-date=7 September 2021 |language=en |date=12 November 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Chouinard |first1=Kyle |title=Maxwell School's X Lab merges university research with public sector |url=http://dailyorange.com/2021/08/x-lab-university-research-public-sector/ |work=The Daily Orange |date=30 August 2021 |access-date=7 September 2021}} Syracuse University alumnus Joseph Boskovski started the Maxwell X Lab with Professor Leonard Lopoo, then-director of the Center for Policy Research at Maxwell, in January 2017, according to an article by writer Edy Semaan on the school's official news website. The Maxwell X Lab has worked with the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, the City of Syracuse, the Early Childhood Alliance, and others, covering areas like healthcare and education.{{Cite web |title=Joseph Boskovski '14 MPA helps governments make effective policy |url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article/joseph-boskovski-14-mpa-helps-governments-make-effective-policy |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Maxwell School |language=en}}
  • Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs: Established 2005 and named for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, studies challenges to the quality of governance worldwide.{{cite news |last1=Ang |first1=Kelvin |title=Clinton visits for institute's rededication |url=http://dailyorange.com/2005/03/clinton-visits-for-institute-s-rededication/ |work=The Daily Orange |date=20 March 2005 |access-date=7 September 2021}}
  • Institute for Security Policy and Law, formerly known as the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism

=Joint and concurrent degrees=

  • Master of Public Health, with SUNY Upstate Medical{{cite web|url=http://www.upstate.edu/cnymph/|title=CNYMPH - SUNY Upstate Medical University|website=www.upstate.edu|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220151939/http://www.upstate.edu/cnymph/|archive-date=20 February 2018|url-status=live}}
  • Public Diplomacy, with the Newhouse School{{cite web|url=http://publicdiplomacy.syr.edu/|title=SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC DIPLOMACY - "Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won't read, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life." — Edward R. Murrow|website=publicdiplomacy.syr.edu|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220093825/http://publicdiplomacy.syr.edu/|archive-date=20 February 2018|url-status=live}}
  • Documentary Film and History, with the Newhouse School{{cite web|url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/hist.aspx?id=766|title=Maxwell School of Syracuse University|website=The Maxwell School of Syracuse University|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508044533/http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/hist.aspx?id=766|archive-date=8 May 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • Masters in Public Administration with School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University{{Cite web|url=https://sais.jhu.edu/academics/dual-degree-and-exchange-programs|title=Dual Degree and Exchange Programs|website=sais.jhu.edu|date=26 June 2019 |access-date=2020-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202204852/https://sais.jhu.edu/academics/dual-degree-and-exchange-programs|archive-date=2020-02-02|url-status=live}}

Maxwell maintains formal relationships with a number of American and global institutions, among them the Chinese Academy of Governance, East China Normal University, Fudan University, the Hertie School of Governance, the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore,{{cite web|url=https://www.iimb.ac.in/node/1352|title=IIMB announces admissions to the tenth batch of Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management|website=www.iimb.ac.in|access-date=19 February 2018}} the Korea Development Institute, the Korea Institute of Public Administration, Moscow State University, Seoul National University, and Tsinghua University.

= Online programs =

== Online Executive Master of Public Administration Program ==

The Maxwell School offers an online Executive Master of Public Administration degree for mid-career professionals.{{Cite news |url=http://dailyorange.com/2016/04/maxwell-partners-with-2u-to-create-online-master-degree-in-public-administration/ |title=Maxwell partners with 2U to create online Master degree in public administration |date=25 April 2016|work=The Daily Orange|access-date=2018-11-26|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126221608/http://dailyorange.com/2016/04/maxwell-partners-with-2u-to-create-online-master-degree-in-public-administration/|archive-date=2018-11-26|url-status=live}} The curriculum requires 30 credits, includes live online classes and real-world learning opportunities, and can be completed in 15 months.{{Cite web|url=https://www.americancityandcounty.com/2017/04/10/an-interdisciplinary-approach-is-what-youll-find-in-syracuse-u-s-empa-offering-with-related-video/|title=Syracuse University: An interdisciplinary approach is what you'll find in Syracuse U.'s EMPA offering (with related video)|website=www.americancityandcounty.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127022525/https://www.americancityandcounty.com/2017/04/10/an-interdisciplinary-approach-is-what-youll-find-in-syracuse-u-s-empa-offering-with-related-video/|archive-date=2018-11-27|url-status=live}} Courses focus on mastery in leading and managing organizations with diverse stakeholders; formulating, implementing, and evaluating policy; and applying rigorous and evidence-based analysis to inform decision-making.{{Cite news|url=https://onlinempa.syr.edu/|title=Executive Online Master's in Public Administration: ExecutiveMPA@Syracuse|access-date=2018-11-26|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724183651/https://onlinempa.syr.edu/|archive-date=2018-07-24|url-status=live}}

Rankings

Since 1995, the Maxwell School has been ranked the top graduate program for public affairs in the country in 12 out of the 13 times the rankings were administered by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite web|url=https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=611|title=Maxwell School Again Named #1 Graduate School of Public Affairs by U.S. News & World Report|date=27 January 2009|website=The Maxwell School of Syracuse University|access-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921004658/https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=611|archive-date=21 September 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Alandt |first1=Anthony |title=Maxwell, Whitman Schools earn top rankings in 2023 U.S. News rankings |url=https://dailyorange.com/2022/03/maxwell-whitman-ranking-news/ |work=The Daily Orange |date=29 March 2022 |access-date=30 March 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Congel |first1=Jennifer |title=Maxwell School Ranks No. 1 for Public Affairs in 2024 |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2023/04/25/maxwell-school-ranks-no-1-for-public-affairs-in-2024/ |access-date=April 25, 2023 |work=Syracuse University News |date=April 25, 2023}} In 2022, the school ranked #1 in Public Management and Leadership, #2 in Nonprofit Management and Public Finance and Budgeting, #6 in the Environmental Policy and Management department, and six other sub-speciality ranked in the top 15.

In 2018, Foreign Policy magazine ranked the master's program in International Relations #16 in the world.{{cite news |title=The Best International Relations Schools in the World |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/20/top-fifty-schools-international-relations-foreign-policy/ |access-date=30 March 2022 |work=Foreign Policy |date=20 February 2018}}

Notable alumni

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