The School of Public Service
Dedicated to excellence in innovative teaching, cutting edge scholarship and meaningful community outreach.
Commitment to Idaho Award recipients 2024
2024 Commitment to Idaho Award
Tracy Andrus (posthumously)
Chair, Andrus Center for Public Policy
2024 Enhancing Public Discourse Award
Kevin Richert
Senior Reporter, Idaho Education News
Explore SPS
The School is comprised of rich and diverse academic programs, as well as talented affiliated faculty from departments and programs across the university. The mission of the School also is supported by a variety of centers and institutes that facilitate research and public engagement.
We Speak a Common Language: Serving the Public
The School of Public Service prepares students, public servants, and leaders to think both regionally and globally in an interdependent world. As such, it serves as a centralized resource for policy makers—to assist them in making informed decisions—and for faculty and students to actively connect and engage with the community and participate in policy decisions.
The bridging of disciplines across the university and the larger community enhances the education of students, allowing them to apply their knowledge and skills to the critical challenges facing the public, private and non-profit sectors.
Supporting the School
From the beginning lectures each fall until graduation each spring, your gifts to the School are hard at work, meeting the ever-changing opportunities and challenges of a metropolitan research university of distinction.