In this article, David Rosenbloom suggests five limitations of the 2004 J-PAE symposium on Social Equity in Public Affairs Education. He offers five injunctions, paralleling those limitations, to guide discussion: don’t forget the rule of law; define social equity; confront the inequities of social equity; explain the advantages, if any, of applying the term social equity to standard, longstanding subject matter in MPA education; and avoid stealing popular sovereignty.
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