MPA - Mission and Outcomes

With a strong emphasis on social responsibility and civic engagement, the MPA program at Indiana Wesleyan University gives students the skills necessary to effectively and compassionately confront the challenges of today's metropolitan environment and its diverse populations. It prepares students to assume leadership and management roles in local, state, and federal levels of government, and similar roles in community based non-profit organizations. The curriculum emphasizes the skills necessary for ethical and efficient public management – including planning, policy analysis, and decision-making – that best represents and promotes the public interest.

Upon completion of the MPA program at Indiana Wesleyan University, students will be able to:

• Impart complex information in a clear, concise, and understandable manner.
• Incorporate analytical and critical thinking into the decision-making process.
• Demonstrate the ability to see patterns and classify information, concepts, and theories in public affairs.
• Demonstrate the ability to judge public policy and management evidence based on reasoned arguments.
• Articulate the importance of upholding the "public trust."
• Demonstrate ethical decision-making.
• Articulate a personal philosophy about public affairs and marshal evidence from the literature and from research to support that philosophy and defend it.