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It Is Nice to Hear

It is always nice to receive confirmation that a decision made long ago has worked out okay.

Mark Kleiman has a post entitled Shameless Boasting that begins:

UCLA has a minor in Public Affairs. (Despite the excellent examples of Princeton and Duke, where undergraduate public policy programs attract superb students…

In 1971 Duke founded what is now known as the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

I entered Duke as a freshman in 1972 when the Institute was in its infancy. I chose to major in public policy. The program was new and non-traditional and, at that time, some viewed majoring in public policy as being quite risky.

Thirty years later, it is nice to know that folks like Mark Kleiman think highly of the program. Being lumped in with “superb students” is great, however undeserved that may be.

Mark reproduces the final exam from his intro course in public policy at UCLA. It is a pretty tough test for an intro course. Nonetheless, it is reassuring to see that the fundamentals of the discipline have changed little and that I could probably still pass an intro course in the area.

Posted by Dwight Meredith at January 12, 2005 02:39 PM | TrackBack