ABSTRACT
Rose Robinson describes the conditions and perceptions which led to the creation of the Conference of Minority Public Administrators. The challenge of identifying a representative set of issues and perspectives related to minorities and public administration has been a major one. Added to this conceptual problem has been the length restrictions placed on Public Administration Review symposia. In the first article, Deryl Hunt argues that public administration is experiencing an "identity crisis" which must be addressed by the profession. In the second article, on black elected administrators, William Nelson and Winston Van Home identify some of the most significant problems these officials have encountered; including a review of the strategies they have utilized to overcome the problems. The third article, prepared by Maria Diaz deKrofcheck and Carlos Jackson, describes the forms of discrimination experienced by Chicanos—Spanish-surnamed America—in public personnel systems at all governmental levels.
