(Under development)
It started in 1904 and ended in approximately 2002
It had 4 names
- Bureau of City Betterment (1904-1906) (part of the City Club)
- Bureau of Municipal Research (1907-192x)
- National Institute of Public Administration (192x-193x) (attached to Columbia University)
- Institute of Public Administration (193x-circa 2002) (attached to NYU in its later years)
A book https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007697357
A blog entry https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-bureau-of-municipal-besmirch-a-tale-of-accountability-and-resentment
A blog: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ipaprocessing/?s=Institute+for+public+administration
A blog entry at Governing https://greenebarrett.com/guest-columnist/
Images of the Budget Exhibit (a fair-like event from 1908 through 1911)
Here is a link to the Baruch College Archive of the the IPA documents www.baruch.cuny.edu/library/alumni/archives/IPA.htm
- There are finding aides and other resources at links on this page.
- This page provides more description www.baruch.cuny.edu/IPAArchive.htm