PADM 7375 - Social Equity

Three credit hours.

As one of four pillars of Public Administration (PA), Social Equity supplements the traditional three (effectiveness, efficiency, and economy) by asking PA professionals to inquire “for whom” is a program or policy effective, efficient and/or economically sound? As a cornerstone of the discipline, Social Equity refers to desired outcomes of public policies and social services: that these be free from bias and fair to all in terms of access, processes, and quality. A graduate seminar in Social Equity also provides essential, foundational knowledge of management skills and practices for program administrators and training in how to diagnose public problems and analyze policy issues in terms of social equity principles and theories of justice, so that policy outcomes are considered in the interests of clients to be served as well as those of stakeholders, and elected officials and administrators.