Learning from their shared experiences at the Teaching Public Administration Conference held in Frankfurt, Kentucky in 2009, three adjunct instructors give voice to the hundreds of practioners teaching in the field of public administration. The authors articulate varying ways that adjuncts challenge students to move beyond the text and examine what it means to do public administration. Drawing from the work of Newman, Guy and Mastracci (2009), the authors argue how they are uniquely qualified to not only prepare effective, but affective, future leaders.
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