United States Public Service Academy

The Academy was envisioned in 2006 by Chris Myers Asch and Shawn Raymond.

The Public Service Academy Act was first introduced in March 2007 by Hillary Clinton and Arlen Specter in the Senate and James Moran and Christopher Shays in the House of Representatives.

The Senate leads included Arlen Specter and Mark Udall.

Maxwell School professors David Van Slyke and Alasdair Roberts wrote that the proposed academy would be redundant to the missions of the 150 undergraduate and graduate public affairs programs already in existence, whose breadth and diversity could never be matched by a single institution.

[2][3] They contend that a nationwide tuition reimbursement program resembling ROTC would be better suited to the training of young civil servants.