Applying Public Management Concepts to Ourselves: Accreditation Under the New Master Degree Mission Standards.

What does the recent shift to mission based assessment for accreditation mean for public administration education? What influence does it appear to have on programs? Does the new focus on program mission make it harder or easier to be accredited? What can be learned from the first three years of mission accreditation? What kinds of missions, outcomes and assessment processes will successfully meet review by the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA)?