| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the Waldo Symposium, which took place in June 1996 at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. Public officials can play a part in restoring the environment for governmental professionalism. They need to become aware of their own value, of their potential to contribute, and of their responsibility to represent their objectives in the broader public arena. In addition, they need to behave in ways that are consciously supportive of a valued, positive, and fulfilling role for public service professionals. Within this context, those who prepare people for public administration (PA) generalist responsibilities have the job of identifying methods by which they can help to build an environment of support for public service professionalism. Part of that responsibility, is to prepare PA generalists who have technical skills, analytic abilities, and faith in themselves. However, those who train public administrators also must encourage their students to engage the environment and its many negative dimensions much more actively.
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