Preface
This Program Handbook and Course Guide is designed to help CIPA fellows—with the guidance of their program advisors—forge programs of study appropriate to their interests and career aspirations. In this handbook you will find information that pertains to degree requirements and program protocol.
Drawing on the university’s extensive academic resources (more than 4,000 courses and an internationally distinguished faculty), CIPA offers a flexible and challenging two-year program of graduate professional studies leading to the Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) degree. We have put a good deal of effort and thought into updating and revising the following program description and course lists, based in no small part on feedback from current and past CIPA fellows. Whether you are a student, faculty advisor, or prospective applicant, we hope you will find this handbook useful.
The refinement of this handbook will continue, and we invite you to join in this process. Please feel free to address us with any questions that you might have about the program.
Of course, no handbook can encapsulate the whole spectrum of individual learning, professional activities and challenges to be experienced at Cornell. With the help of their program advisors, CIPA fellows are encouraged to explore and design a two-year program of study that addresses their specific interests. Welcome to CIPA.
Nancy H. Chau
Director of Graduate Studies
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