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Assessing and Improving EGA?s Efforts in Diversity and Inclusive PracticesThe Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) provides its more than 220 member organizations with networking and learning opportunities to make them more effective in their work supporting environmental organizations and issues. For the past 10 years, …
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Environment, Climate Change, and SustainabilityCourses in this Focus Area will provide you with the necessary skills to be a thoughtful policymaker or leader in this area. You will learn about fundamental challenges, delve into deep-seated problems, and focus on potential solutions for environmental …
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Computer Support FAQ1. What software is supported by Wagner IT, and how do I acquire it? Adobe Acrobat Pro Microsoft Office Cortex XDR InsightVM ArcGIS/ArcMap Endnote Zoom For a complete list of university software offerings, click here . Note that some software is provided …
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Studying collective leadership: The road aheadIn the concluding article, we move from providing a map of the collective leadership (CL) research field that has been conducted to date to providing a travel guide that we hope can inspire both experienced and novice travelers to push out the frontiers …
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ReportsIssue Brief: How State and Local Government Can Support Workers’ Right to Form and Join Unions , NYU Wagner Labor Initative, April 22, 2025. Quick Fixes to Lock in Wins for Workers: How States Can Preserve New Federal Protections , (co-author Paul Sonn), …
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About Leadership in Action at WagnerNo one individual, organization, or sector is capable of addressing the pressing issues of today’s shared-power world. Shifting geopolitical and digital landscapes require that we move beyond traditional "heroic" conceptions of leaders to instead …
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NYU Wagner Announces Future Home at 105 East 17th StreetIn a significant milestone for NYU Wagner, we are thrilled to announce our upcoming move to 105 East 17th Street, a dynamic space situated in the heart of Union Square, New York City. This carefully renovated building will serve as the center of NYU …
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Theresa JenkinsonWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to combine my interest in management, strategy, and public service in a program that was committed to innovation and impact. Its location and role in the New York community also provided …
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Forum Explores Financial Squeeze Facing Nonprofit Human-Services SectorMore than 100 leaders of nonprofit organizations, along with state and city social services officials, gathered at NYU Wagner on Feb. 24 for the release of an exhaustive report calling for urgent reforms to shore up the nonprofit human-services sector in …
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Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, and Equity Resources for StudentsNew York University has a range of inclusive centers and initiatives, programming, and resources for our diverse community. Bias Response Line The New York University Bias Response Line provides a mechanism through which members of our community can share …
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Alumni Spotlight: Claudia Espinosa (MPA 2013)Founding a nonprofit organization was not the direction Claudia Espinosa (MPA 2013) thought that her life would take when she moved to New York City from Colombia in 2000. Espinosa always wanted to have a career that would allow her to help others, and …
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NYU Wagner ReviewMission NYU Wagner Review is the student-run academic journal of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. NYU Wagner Review promotes dialogue on a wide range of issues related to public service by publishing original …
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Evaluation of Community-Academic Partnership Functioning: Center for the Elimination of Hepatitis B Health DisparitiesTo conduct a process evaluation using surveys and interviews of the B Free CEED partnership coalition, a community–academic partnership created to address hepatitis health disparities in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities … Van Devanter, N., …
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Strategic Collaboration with NYU-Universidad del Rosario Fellowship WinnersThe Colombian Studies Initiative is pleased to announce the recipients of the first round of Strategic Collaboration Fellowships between New York University (NYU) and Universidad del Rosario (UR), offered to members of both universities. This fellowship, …
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Population Health and the Academic Medical Center: The Time Is RightOptimizing the health of populations, whether defined as persons receiving care from a health care delivery system or more broadly as persons in a region, is emerging as a core focus in the era of health care reform. To achieve this goal requires an …
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Learning by working in big cities.Individual earnings are higher in bigger cities. We consider three reasons: spatial sorting of initially more productive workers, static advantages associated with workers' current location, and learning by working in big cities. Using rich administrative …
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“What is the Effect of Statutory Discretion on Agency Loss? Evidence from the U.S. States”What is the effect of state charter school authorization, renewal, and revocation statutory discretion on charter school growth? Advocates suggest that charter school authorizer type and authorizers’ statutory discretion account for charter school growth. …
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Season's Greetings from NYU Wagner (2016)Wherever you are in the world this season, we send you our warmest greetings and best wishes for the upcoming year! —Dean Sherry Glied and the entire NYU Wagner community … Season's Greetings from NYU Wagner …
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Academic ProgressGPA Requirement Cumulative GPA must be 3.000 or higher Master’s students need a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.000 to graduate and are expected to maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.000 throughout their academic career to …
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Spatially heterogeneous effects of a public works programMost research on labor market effects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme focuses on outcomes at the district level. This paper shows that such a focus masks substantial spatial heterogeneity: treated villages located near …
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Highly decentralized solar geoengineeringNonstate actors appear to have increasing power, in part due to new technologies that alter actors’ capacities and incentives. Although solar geoengineering is typically conceived of as centralized and state-deployed, we explore highly decentralized solar …
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Beyond big versus small: assessing spatial variation of urban neighborhood block structures in high-density citiesA striking feature of urban formation has been the deployment of mega-blocks, often on the order of sixteen hectares or more. On the other hand, recent urban policies give strong suggestions for smaller and finer-grained neighborhood block and grid …
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Utilizing big data in the credit union industryThe National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions helps low- and moderate-income individuals achieve financial independence by organizing, supporting, and investing in credit unions that serve underserved communities. The Federation’s members …
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Unravelling social capital: Disentangling a concept for Social WorkOver several decades, social capital has gained intellectual currency as a means to understand the dynamics of individual and community resources. While prevalent in other disciplines, social capital, however, has been used less often in social work to …