The complexity of current public policy issues requires us to think differently about society's goals for sustainability, equity, and prosperity across cultures, communities, states, and nations. Policymakers must be prepared to generate innovative policy approaches that include "evidence-based" analysis as well as information and judgments about the needs of their communities, the values of influential stakeholders and community members, and the resources available to implement policies designed to encourage individual, community, government, and market behaviors that lead to desired results.

To accomplish this, a new generation of policymakers must create an analysis model that incorporates the essential elements of collaborative and ethical leadership, social justice and equity, and global interdependence into traditional "rational model" analysis. To ensure their success in increasingly complex environments, the MPP program will provide future policy professionals with a "toolbox" of competencies containing the knowledge, skills and abilities needed for a new era of steady public policy development and institutional change. We include the most important analytic questions: What is the problem? What are the possible options to addressing it? What are the likely outcomes of each alternative? What political and social values are reflected in the options?

• Applications for Fall 2009 are now available (see link at bottom of this page). If you have questions and would like to learn more about the program, please email us at mpp@csumb.edu or call 831-582-3565.
  
  
• Our 2007 Graduates have started a fund to support the program. Please see MPP Gift Fund Flyer 02.pdf
  
  

We look forward to hearing from you!