Growing independence is the dramatic growth of institutes of government, public administration, and urban affairs, and various kinds of public policy centers in universities. For perhaps the first time in public administration’ 80 years in a quandary, a tentative paradigm has been formulated for the filed that defines the discipline’s “specialized what” and its “institutional where.” This intellectual ripening must not be allowed to wither in institutional settings that are unsympathetic. 2014 Paradigms of public Administration Service perhaps antithetical – to public administration’s new and vital paradigm. The use of the field to society seems obvious, and, in an age in which higher education generally is suffering from declining enrollments, public administration programs are turning away highly qualified applicants. In short, the social, economic, intellectual, and political reasons for administration to assert its identity and autonomy are there. It remains to be done.