Problems of Training for the Public Service:(e) American Experience—An “In‐Service” Training Program for Federal Employes
| Published date | 01 July 1938 |
| Author | Arthur S. Flemming |
| Date | 01 July 1938 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1938.tb02090.x |
Problems
of
Training
for
the
Public
Service
(e) American Experience-An
“
In-Service
”
Training
Program for Federal Employes
By
ARTHUR
S.
FLEMMING
[Paper
to
be
disczosscd
at the Summer Conference
of
the
Institute
of
Pwblic
Administration, Bhstol, July,
19381
HE
School of Public Affairs
of
the American University, located
T
in Washingtun,
D.C.,
began its work a little over three years
ago as a result, in part,
of
a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Its primary objective was and is
to
provide
an
“
In-Service
”
Train-
ing
Program for the emp1,oyi.s
of
the
Federal Government.
During the first complete academic year the School served approxi-
mately
225
students each semester. During
the
second year an
average
of
825
students were enrolled each semester. During the
present year the University has had the opportunity
of
sewing
approximately
950
federal employ& each semester.
This rapid growth has been due, almost entirely,
tu
the enthusiastic
co-operation which the School has received from leading administra-
tive officers and directors
of
personnel
in
the federal service.
The courses for
which
these federal employ& are enrolled can be
grouped under the following headings
:
public administration
;
personnel management; organisation, management and supervision
;
budgetary administration
;
statistics
;
accounting
;
administrative and
constitutional
law;
and courses
in
specialised fields such as social
security, national resources, and money and banking.
In a number
of
instances the School has had the opportunity
of
offering co-operative courses with particular departments in
the
interest
of
helping them solve some
of
their
own
inside training
problems. Co-operative
arrangements
of
this
kind
have
been
worked
out
with
the Department
of
Agriculture, Home Owners’ Loan Cor-
poration, Farm Credit Administration, Social Security Board, the
Bureau of Census
of
the Department
of
Commerce,
and
the Bureau
of Labor Statistics
of
the Department
of
Labor.
In
addition to what might be termed the formal
part
of the School’s
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